SaaS adoption to grow rapidly: Zinnov

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Zinnov Management Consulting, today announced the launch of the first-of-its-kind study ever conducted on the Indian Cloud market bringing in a CIO’s perspective into the picture and their valued opinion on Cloud as a business tool.

The study titled, “Cloud Opportunities in India — A CIOs Perspective”, highlights aspects like the various cloud opportunities existing in India currently and how the market is poised to grow in years to come, a perspective on the various aspects related to its adoption from a CIO’s perspective.

The launched study is a result of a robust survey conducted amongst 100 organizational decision- makers (Chief Information Officers — CIOs) of leading enterprises across key cities like Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi and Pune.  The study reveals that over 60 per cent of CIOs surveyed believe that their IT budgets will surely grow next year and that fact that a one stop shop for all Cloud service would help accelerate the adoption as well as help standardize different workloads.

Pari Natarajan, Chief Executive Officer, Zinnov Management Consulting Pvt. Ltd, said, “The next wave of transformation in the Indian IT industry is ‘Cloud Computing’. This is indeed a perfect storm. The only difference is that, this storm is destructive only to companies who are not willing to change, while it is a huge opportunity for others”.

“SaaS adoption would continue to grow at a rapid pace in India over the next 5 years and business process as a service is expected to grow rapidly in the SMB segment. Governments’ continued focus on e-governance will also drive significant adoption of cloud pan in the country”, he added.