Manufacturers Have Embraced Cloud Technology
In the United States, 41% of manufacturing respondents indicated they are accessing IT resources via the public cloud, according to the IDC Global Technology and Industry Research Organization IT Survey, 2014.
One reason for the overwhelming acceptance is that for manufacturers the advantages are significant since line of business leaders and their IT organizations increasingly rely on cloud to flexibly, the survey says.
The trend is global, according to the IDC European Vertical Markets Survey, 2014, as almost 50% of European manufacturing respondents noted they have adopted or will adopt ERP in the public cloud. And in Asia Pacific, 49% of manufacturing respondents are using cloud – public or private - or intend to use cloud.