Report: Cloud Usage In Manufacturing And Engineering To Triple By 2017
Manufacturing moving to the cloud for efficiency, data visibility, lower TCO, and productivity and extending adoption of enterprise cloud platforms.
Global manufacturing companies say they have realized good results by adopting cloud applications, and they plan to accelerate cloud use dramatically by 2017 — especially in their manufacturing, engineering and operations groups. Some of the biggest benefits have come from lower IT costs, higher employee productivity, better data visibility, and gains in process automation. These are just a few of the findings of a recent survey conducted in conjunction with the Manufacturing ISV Cloud Summit, held this spring.
Perhaps the study's most intriguing implication is that as these companies move their operations, engineering and manufacturing to the cloud, platforms originally developed for sales and marketing-such as Salesforce-may become the backbone of all enterprise software.