Covid-19 Has Taken Digital Transformation Mainstream - Cloud Is Vital to Sustaining This Momentum

摘要

While digital transformation has been happening in organisations for many years now, the events of 2020 have forced companies to accelerate the pace of this change and make preparations to ensure this change will be permanent. This is according to the latest research issued by Cloud Service Provider Ancoris, in conjunction with the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF). The research, which was conducted by Vanson Bourne prior to the lockdown, surveyed UK-based IT and business decision-makers and sought to understand how they were exploiting cloud and other next-generation technologies, and the barriers standing in the way of adoption. David McLeman, CEO of Ancoris, stated: "The pre-pandemic picture was generally a positive one, in which 80% of UK businesses either had a digital transformation strategy in place or were in the process of implementing one. Of those who had not yet brought in such a strategy, almost all planned to have one in the next 12 months. The exception to the rule was the manufacturing sector, where only 18% claimed to have a defined digital transformation strategy in hand.