CA Technologies Global Survey: PPM is critical in cloud transformation

The report shows that project and portfolio management (Projectand Portfolio Management, abbreviated as PPM) will play an increasingly critical role in driving cloud transformation, and that the demand for PPM will grow by 13% over the next two years in order to successfully plan and implement the cloud, is the highest increase in the associated management software for public cloud projects. The survey found that 41.5% of respondents wanted to use a public cloud to increase the complexity of their IT projects. This is partly because the proportion of public cloud investments that bypass it control in the next two years will grow by 6%. By adopting the PPM solution, the enterprise will gain unique advantages, including successful management of the cloud, increased business agility and innovation, and the provision of cloud service portfolio visibility and control. "CIOs need to maintain visibility and control to ensure that the transition value of cloud computing is not based on high costs," explains Helge Scheil, senior vice president of CA Technologies. The survey further confirms the view that the PPM solution is an increasingly important weapon to help businesses deal with public cloud investment, application migration and management. Using PPM, enterprises can adjust resources, needs and scheduling, and constantly improve the innovative life cycle. In addition, they can identify needs, accelerate the value generation time of each investment, and clearly demonstrate the transformational value of cloud computing investment. ”

Other important ideas in the 2011 project and Portfolio Management Cloud Accelerator report include:

• Cloud-based service usage is increasing, and the public cloud IT investment budget will increase to 19% by the end of 2013.

• Cost savings are the main reasons for migrating applications to or from the cloud.

• By 2013, Europe and North America may have a comparable public cloud. By the end of 2013, the proportion of European IT budgets based on public cloud services will reach 17.9%, while North America will reach 17%.

• Companies that do not currently use PPM solutions are aware of the strategic value of PPM in developing cloud adoption decisions and expect to adopt PPM solutions in the future.

• For more than half of the applications, large-scale application migration will be a difficult task and therefore requires a solution such as PPM.

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