Nearly one in five (18%) IT directors in manufacturing say all their organisation’s IT infrastructure is based in the cloud today, while a further 38% say their organisation have moved most of their IT infrastructure to the cloud. These are among the key findings of a recent survey commissioned by NiceLabel, polling the views of IT directors across the world.
The survey did reveal some concerns about cloud migration. More than a quarter (27%) of IT directors ion manufacturing are concerned about slow performance when running applications is the cloud, while 26% note a lack of integration with legacy systems as a key obstacle.
However, eliminating issues around performance and legacy systems integration would spark a faster migration, with 50% of respondents saying they would be “much more likely to move their applications to the cloud” as a result.
The survey shows that among the top reasons why manufacturers decided to use cloud solutions were better and easier global collaboration (33%) and efficient traceability and tracking across the supply chain (30%).