ISG Provider Lens™ report finds enterprises in the region
focused on using the cloud to innovate and transform their
businesses
STOCKHOLM, Jan. 3, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Enterprises in
the Nordic region are moving away from legacy IT operating models
and toward the public cloud, with cloud adoption growing across all
industries, according to a new report published today by
Information Services Group (ISG) (Nasdaq: III), a leading global
technology research and advisory firm.
The 2019 ISG Provider Lens™ Public Cloud — Solutions &
Service Partners Report for the Nordics finds enterprises – in
their push for innovation and digital transformation – are
leveraging cloud services and reducing their use of traditional IT
outsourcing. The resulting savings from these cost-reduction moves,
the report finds, are being reinvested in digitalization
programs.
Many Nordic enterprises are adopting a multicloud approach, with
their CIOs and CTOs focused on a multiyear strategy when deciding
whether to use Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure or Google
Cloud Platform (GCP), the report says.
"Public cloud services are becoming mainstream in the Nordics
market," said Barry Mathews, partner
and head of ISG North Europe. "The IT market in the Nordic
countries has always been one of the most progressive in
Europe, and spending on the public
cloud has increased there in recent years."
The report sees the Infrastructure-as-a-Service market growing
in the Nordics, with enterprises migrating their critical workloads
to the public cloud. The growth in public cloud adoption is due to
a need for improved data security, an increase in cloud-native
application development and an increase in the use of containers
and microservices. AWS has an early-mover advantage in the IaaS
market, but Microsoft Azure is gaining traction in the Nordics, the
report says.
The Platform-as-a-Service market in the Nordics is also growing,
but at a more measured pace, the report adds. Many Nordic
businesses are modernizing existing applications and creating new
applications in the cloud, but finding experienced and affordable
platform administrators is a challenge for many organizations.
However, PaaS has helped several Nordic enterprises centralize
application development and adopt a managed container platform, the
report says. PaaS has also aided organizations in using
cloud-native technologies such as low-code/no-code offerings,
serverless platforms and microservices, allowing for continuous
innovation and faster time to market.
Meanwhile, public cloud service providers in the Nordics are now
offering integrated management services for multicloud workloads,
the report says. Many service providers have built their own cloud
management platforms (CMPs) to help enterprises manage workloads
and control spending. Most available cloud management
platforms are cloud agnostic and vendor neutral, and many service
providers are offering CMPs as part of a bundled package with cloud
services.
The 2019 ISG Provider Lens™ Public Cloud —Solutions &
Service Partners Report for the Nordics evaluates the capabilities
of 49 providers across seven quadrants: Public Cloud Transformation
Services, Managed Public Cloud Services, Managed Public Cloud
Services for AWS, Managed Public Cloud Services for Azure, Managed
Public Cloud Services for GCP, aPaas – Application Development
Platforms as a Service, and IaaS – (Hyperscale) Infrastructure as a
Service.
The report names Accenture as a leader in five quadrants, and
Capgemini, DXC Technology, HCL, TCS and Wipro as leaders in four.
AWS, Fujitsu, Google, Microsoft and Nordcloud are leaders in two
quadrants, and Rackspace is a leader in one.
The 2019 ISG Provider Lens™ Public Cloud — Solutions
& Service Partners Report for the Nordics is available to ISG
Insights™ subscribers or for one-time purchase on this webpage.
About ISG Provider Lens™ Research
The ISG Provider Lens™ Quadrant research series is the only
service provider evaluation of its kind to combine empirical,
data-driven research and market analysis with the real-world
experience and observations of ISG's global advisory team.
Enterprises will find a wealth of detailed data and market analysis
to help guide their selection of appropriate sourcing partners,
while ISG advisors use the reports to validate their own market
knowledge and make recommendations to ISG's enterprise clients. The
research currently covers providers offering their services
globally, across Europe and
Latin America, as well as in the
U.S., Germany, the U.K., the Nordics and Brazil, with additional markets to be added in
the future. For more information about ISG Provider Lens research,
please visit this webpage.
The series is a complement to the ISG Provider Lens Archetype
reports, which offer a first-of-its-kind evaluation of providers
from the perspective of specific buyer types.
About ISG
ISG (Information Services Group) (Nasdaq: III) is a leading
global technology research and advisory firm. A trusted business
partner to more than 700 clients, including more than 70 of the top
100 enterprises in the world, ISG is committed to helping
corporations, public sector organizations, and service and
technology providers achieve operational excellence and faster
growth. The firm specializes in digital transformation services,
including automation, cloud and data analytics; sourcing advisory;
managed governance and risk services; network carrier services;
strategy and operations design; change management; market
intelligence and technology research and analysis. Founded in 2006,
and based in Stamford, Conn., ISG
employs more than 1,300 digital-ready professionals operating in
more than 20 countries—a global team known for its innovative
thinking, market influence, deep industry and technology expertise,
and world-class research and analytical capabilities based on the
industry's most comprehensive marketplace data. For more
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