PPM to Play Key Role in the Cloud

  Governance   Innovation   ProjectsAtWork  

By adopting PPM solutions, organizations will be positioned to manage successful cloud initiatives, increase business agility and innovation, and provide visibility and control over their cloud services portfolio, a global survey concludes.

Portfolio and project management will play an increasingly vital role in driving cloud transformation, according to a global, independent research study. The PPM Cloud Accelerator Report 2011, commissioned by CA Technologies, also showed that over the next two years, there will be a 13 percent increase in demand for PPM among organizations to plan and execute successful cloud initiatives -- the highest increase of any software category used to manage public cloud-related projects.

The survey of 530 organizations in nine countries -- Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States -- also found that 41.5 percent of respondents expect public cloud use to increase IT project complexity. Part of the reason for this, the survey reveals, is that the proportion of public cloud investment bypassing the control of IT will rise by six percent during the next two years.

“CIOs need to retain visibility and control to ensure the transformative value of cloud computing does not come at a high cost,” says Helge Scheil, senior vice president, CA Technologies. &…

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