Cloud takes centre stage in the COVID-19 era

The effort to continue business and maintain operations during the COVID-19 era and beyond has put cloud computing at center stage for organizations. COVID-19 has made enterprises aware of the need to learn and scale quickly in a fast-moving business environment. We have seen many examples of how even brief delays and hesitations have caused business escalations and societal disruptions. A robust and scalable cloud strategy helps organizations stay agile while enabling new business models, ensuring business continuity, increasing workforce productivity, addressing security risks, managing demand volatility, and enhancing customer experience. Cloud computing also helps in quickly pivoting to fully remote working.

In association with Harvard Business Review Analytic Services, Wipro surveyed 484 senior technology executives across industries and regions.

Key findings from the research include:

55% say the most significant driver for cloud adoption is increased business agility.
The factors that once drove companies to consider cloud computing, such as scalability, improving efficiency, and variabilization of costs, are now a given. Cloud computing has emerged as a critical component to drive the business transformation—key to a return to growth.
Business success will increasingly depend on an organization’s ability to invest intelligently in technology, such as data, analytics, and machine learning, and leverage the right computing strategy to innovate and increase competitiveness.
The use of hybrid multi-cloud continues to grow.
Although the case for cloud computing is clear, organizations struggle to make a transformational case for cloud as security and legacy concerns persist.

Wipro is uniquely positioned to enable enterprises and lead our customers’ cloud journeys through a business-first, design-led strategy powered by an industrialized solutions approach.

Here’s to a cloud-driven future. We look forward to your feedback.