Overview

The cloud has become part of the fabric of enterprises across Germany. Even industries and enterprises that have traditionally treated the cloud with caution or skepticism are now willing to base the design of their IT environments on the cloud paradigm. German enterprises have been given an urgently needed nudge toward the cloud, prompted by the need for wholesale digitalization and the economic pressure of macroeconomic changes under which all enterprises labor. It is therefore no surprise that 82% of enterprises and organizations use the cloud to improve workload productivity.

However, the extent to which the cloud is used across enterprises and in individual workloads varies greatly. In February 2023, IDC conducted a survey across all industries, interviewing IT managers and departmental decision makers from 200 enterprises with more than 100 employees to gain in-depth insights into the challenges, approaches and plans for the use of business-critical applications in the cloud and for the optimization of cloud operations. The survey findings show that the majority of decision makers favor cloud when it comes to modernizing their IT environment, though the breadth of use varies greatly.