THE CLOUD ECONOMY11 Essential Trends About How Companies Connect to Each Other Via the Cloud

THE CLOUD ECONOMY

A NEW GENERATION OF APPS

IS CHANGINGHOW PEOPLECONNECTWITH EACH OTHER

AND AT WORK, PEOPLE ARE USING APPS TO CONNECT WITH

PARTNERS, SUPPLIERS, & CUSTOMERS

2013 Q3 2014 Q22013 Q4 2014 Q1 2014 Q3

759 738626

545

831

2015 Q1

923

BY NOW, MOST COMPANIESKNOW THEY USE AN AVERAGE OF

923 CLOUD APPS

2014 Q4

897

BUT MANY WOULD BE SHOCKED TO DISCOVERTHEY CONNECT TO

1,555 PARTNERSVIA THESE APPS SUPPLIERS

DISTRIBUTORS CUSTOMERS

VENDORS

TOP CLOUD HYPERCONNECTORS BASED ON THE NUMBER OF PARTNER CONNECTIONS THEY ENABLE

CUSTOMER SERVICE

FILE SHARING

COLLABORATION

1. Zendesk

1. Sharefile

1. Cisco WebEx

2. Salesforce

2. Box

2. Slack

3. GrooveHQ

3. Wiredrive

3. Office 365

COMPANIES OF ALL INDUSTRIES CONNECT WITH PARTNERS FROM ALL INDUSTRIES

COMPANIESOF ALL INDUSTRIES CONNECT WITH PARTNERSFROM ALL INDUSTRIES

OUT OF THOUSANDS OF COMPANIES, A SELECT

58 “SUPER PARTNERS”CONNECT WITH 50% OF ENTERPRISES

A NEW ECONOMY DRIVEN BY THESE CONNECTIONS IS EMERGING:

THE CLOUD ECONOMY

THE CLOUD IS HAVING A MEASURABLE IMPACT ON BUSINESS

Average improvement in time to market

Average increase in company growth

Average increase in process efficiency

Average reduction in operational costs

Average reduction in IT spending

Average reduction in IT maintenance cost

20.66%

19.63%

18.80%

16.18%

15.07%

16.76%

Source: Vanson Bourne “The Business Impact of the Cloud”

IN THE CLOUD ECONOMY, PRODUCTIVITY IS SOARING

United States Productivity

Source: www.tradingeconomics.com, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

108

107

106

105

104

103

102Jan 10 Jan 12 Jan 14

BUT THERE IS RISK

HACKERS CAN GAIN ACCESS TO YOUR COMPANY

VIA YOUR PARTNERS

HACKERS USED A HEATING & COOLING VENDOR AS THE INFILTRATION POINT FOR THE

$148 MILLION TARGET BREACH

WHAT MAKES A PARTNER A HIGH RISKTO YOUR COMPANY?

Devices Infected with Malware

Unpatched Vulnerabilities

Compromised Identities

PASSWORD *******

USERNAME *********

Just 8% of partners are high risk

8%

29%

But 29% of data is shared with high-risk partners

8%

Percent of companies in industry that are high-risk

THE RISKIEST PARTNER INDUSTRIES THAT REQUIRE CLOSER INSPECTION

Telecommunications

Agriculture & Mining

Construction & Real Estate

Energy & Utilities

Healthcare

High Tech

Transportation & Storage

Manufacturing

Financial Services

Travel

27.7%

21.4%

20.5%

19.9%

18.1%

16.7%

16.5%

16.0%

30.4%

15.9%

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CLOUD ADOPTION & RISK REPORTQ1 2015 Published Q2 2015

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