Cloud computing, IT Outsourcing lead trends in Germany ? The ...

This week, we at Savvis EMEA are locked into three days of lectures, workshops and demos with more than 5,000 other IT leaders attending the HP Discover User Conference in Frankfurt, Germany.

As I listened to the discussions taking place yesterday, I couldn?t help but think of how much this year?s event theme, ?Making technology work for you,? fits perfectly with our view of the German IT outsourcing market at the end of 2012.

About this time last year, experts from BITKOM ? the German Federal Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media ? predicted that more than half of mission-critical business data will be outsourced by 2015.

Savvis? recently released 2012 ITO Leadership Report confirms this prediction in Germany, where finance, media, automotive, software, government and retail clients are really looking for a provider that can help them harness the latest advances in cloud computing. Our study found:

-????? Just 17 percent of German IT decision makers assumed they will still host the majority of their IT-infrastructure in-house within the next two years.

-????? Web hosting leads the reading for outsourcing in Germany, with 43 percent of respondents indicating they outsource this infrastructure, followed by back-up and disaster recovery (39 percent) and test and development (38 percent).

-????? Interestingly, 35 percent of German cloud adopters see enhanced security as the biggest benefit of cloud computing.

This move toward outsourcing and cloud has a significant impact on some of the ideas being discussed at this week?s conference. Consider, for example:

German companies are working on use cases for big data

Big data has gone from a topic in German IT media to a strategy in the boardroom. Our ITO Report backs this up, where big data analysis ranked in the top three goals for IT-infrastructure-outsourcing.

While the number of German companies already really working with big data is still low, we expect interest to grow as cloud computing increases and big data analytics become more of a necessity for business.

Cloud ERP: Everywhere and always

German companies are increasingly opening up to Software as a Service for business applications. It?s becoming more and more clear that SaaS from the cloud can cover enterprise resource planning demands; but prior to 2012, this wasn?t clear ? only 4 percent committed to having the majority of their infrastructure in the cloud.

Experton says that SaaS ERP will grow more than 50 percent each year, covering almost 20 percent of the whole ERP market by 2016. That?s good news for businesses in Germany, as we see them turning to SaaS to benefit from a secure, flexible and highly scalable solution that enables them to concentrate on their core business.

The evolving IT department

IT continues to evolve at a relentless pace, but every sector has one expectation in common: Whereas IT used to play a supporting role, today it enables business. While we are still in an austere European economy, IT strategy is no longer just about reducing total cost of ownership). The ITO report found out that scalability, provisioning time and security are at least as important like cost reduction.

This means CIOs must keep a close eye on new technologies that have potential to deliver company growth. By taking a proactive approach and trusting day-to-day technology management to an outsourcing provider, the CIO can close the gap between IT systems and the company?s business demands.

Clearly, the German market is not alone in its growing interest in cloud and IT outsourcing. As we look toward 2013, it will be interesting to see not only how German adoption translates into broad technology trends like big data but, even more so, how German businesses will reapply their budgets and IT talent to deliver value to the bottom line.

Source:http://blog.savvis.com/2012/12/cloud-computing-ito-lead-trends-in-germany.html

Source: http://www.theoutsourceblog.com/2012/12/cloud-computing-it-outsourcing-lead-trends-in-germany/

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