HCL Research Reveals $39 Billion of SAP Landscape Could Move to the Cloud in the Next Two Years

[Fausto Felch]

Research released today by HCL Technologies has revealed that $39 billion of SAP landscape could move to the cloud in the next two years, as large enterprises plan to migrate 46% of their existing SAP on-premise environment. The global survey of 100 executives from large enterprises focused on their current and future plans to deploy SAP applications and infrastructure in the cloud. It revealed that 45% of organizations have increased their SAP cloud investments over the past year and that they expect to nearly double these investments in the next 12 months. Migration isn't just being motivated by potential cost savings, as the research highlights business agility and speed (59%), access to new technologies (46%) and improved customer satisfaction (43%) as big drivers.