KPMG: Business Needs Drive Investment Decisions

Recently, KPMG, a professional services organization, surveyed delegates on the issue of how businesses are aware of cloud computing trends. In total, 336 people participated in the survey. Overall, this survey clearly shows that in order to update and enhance the enterprise resource planning (ERP), it is the business needs of enterprises that drive investment decisions.

Stephen G Hastert, KPMG's National Advisory Innovation Leader, said: "First-step entrants are now stepping to better manage data with the latest in IT technology so it can store data in a more flexible way and improve Data analysis methods and the data into knowledge and wealth available. "

The main contents of the investigation are:

1,41% of respondents said that their companies plan to upgrade their ERP systems and 26% plan to implement them in 12 months.

Nearly half of the respondents (49%) acknowledged that companies are struggling to cope with massive amounts of data, making decision-making difficult.

Three-fifths of respondents said cloud computing strategy was one of the options for addressing future data management challenges, with 56% of respondents saying cloud computing would help make the enterprise more agile and competitive.

Forty-eight percent of respondents rated ERP system upgrades as an opportunity to improve operational efficiencies, with 42% of respondents believing that an ERP system helped eliminate manual processes and 37% of respondents indicated that an upgrade would strengthen IT departments and operations Segment synergies, with 37% of respondents saying that ERP system upgrades can improve compliance.

Sixty-two percent of respondents said their company is looking for the best data analytics to improve business decisions.

6,53% of respondents believe that the change to the cloud computing environment will lead to a series of business transformation issues. Before the application of the cloud strategy, enterprises must deeply understand this issue.

7. More than half of the respondents (59%) said that making the right decisions through plentiful data records, market events and business environment is a common consensus among executives, and 54% of respondents think the above consensus The board of directors is concerned.