Study: Cloud usage in manufacturing, engineering to triple by 2017
Eighty percent of operations departments, 70% of engineering groups and 59% of manufacturing departments expect to grow their use of enterprise cloud apps dramatically by 2017.
Global manufacturing companies have realized good results by adopting cloud-based applications, and they plan to accelerate cloud use dramatically by 2017, especially in their manufacturing, engineering and operations groups, according to a study conducted in conjunction with the Manufacturing ISV Cloud Summit, sponsored by Salesforce, San Francisco; ICIX, San Bruno, Calif.; Propel, San Jose, Calif.; Rootstock Software, San Ramon, Calif.; and Tavant Technologies, Santa Clara, Calif.
Some of the biggest benefits have come from lower IT costs, higher employee productivity, better data visibility and gains in process automation.