Market Opportunities in Cloud Professional Services 2024

This IDC Market Perspective explores how cloud professional services (CPS) vendors can address specific customer challenges and requirements and play a significant role in bridging the gap between expectation and reality in the enterprise cloud journey. Cloud is now a foundational pillar of enterprise IT strategy, and multi and hybrid cloud environments are a reality for most Asia/Pacific enterprises today. However, there are significant challenges they encounter on their cloud journey that prevent them from realizing the full value of their investments. "Cloud has emerged as the architectural foundation powering enterprise transformation to digital business. However, significant implementation and operations challenges often bedevil an enterprise's cloud journey. Cloud professional services providers have a crucial role to play in helping enterprises maximize the value of their investments in cloud-centric transformation initiatives," says Pushkaraksh Shanbhag, associate director, IDC Asia/Pacific Cloud and IT Services.