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Canada to Catch U.S. in SaaS: IDC |
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itworldcanada.com |
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Wednesday, November 21, 2012 |
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Knowledge Management in Government
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Canada |
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Dec 03, 2012 |
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Organizations in this country are known for being cautious in signing up for cloud software solutions compared to American firms. But we'll catch up in the next four years.
For the past several years Canadian organizations have lagged behind the United States in using cloud-based software.
But new research from IDC Canada says that’s about the change.
“Canada will catch up with some aggressive adoption in the next few years,” says Nigel Wallis, research director for enterprise software and application solutions.
According to the company’s most recent surveys, 5 per cent ($428 million) of the total corporate and government spending in this country is on software as a service offerings, he said. By comparison, in the U.S. 9 per cent of IT spending is on cloud-based software.
However, by 2015 the amount of corporate spending on cloud software will be even in both countries at 15 per cent ($1.39 billion here).
Cloud software solutions include Salesforce, Google’s Gmail, Microsoft’s Office 365 and Cisco System Inc.’s WebEx.
Canadian organizations have had a lower adoption of cloud software solutions for several reasons, he said: The early leaders were American-based and worked U.S. markets first before offering service here. In addition, organizations here had concerns about the security of data and that personal data is held in the U.S., where law enforcement agencies could access it through the Patriot Act.
However the numbers suggest those worries – which Wallis says are “overstated”— are slowly melting away.
“We’re past the tipping point for cloud computing in Canada,” he said.
Remember that 5 per cent of current Canadian IT SaaS spend? That’s an average, Wallis pointed out. In certain verticals such as collaboration (like WebEx), CRM (like Salesforce) and human capital management (like SuccessFactors) the spending is “north of 30 per cent” already.
As Canadian organizations get experience with cloud computing their motives for choosing SaaS solutions have changed, Wallis added. They used to pick cloud solutions largely to save money. Now a key driver is cloud’s speed of deployment – with no on-premise installation and often minimal configuration, all end users need is a browser.
Positive experiences with small cloud solutions lead to larger purchases, Wallis said.
Still, surveys indicate that organizations here think twice about cloud software because of security and data residency (privacy) and data repatriation concerns, as well as integration, performance and availability.
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