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Report

Disintegration within

the institutions

hinders innovation

Study

A recent study has confirmed that the disintegration inside the

institutions hinders innovation. The study entitle building innovation

using LaaS issued by Oracle – the leading company in the Cloud

Computing domain – has revealed that the companies work in a way

that hinders the cooperation between its different departments.

The study has reviewed the opinions of more than 1200 of the

decision makers in the technology department in medium and big

enterprises in Europe, GCC states, Africa and united kingdom, and

focused on the methodology adopted by the companies regarding

the cloud computing, in addition to the major problems and obstacles

encountered by innovation.

The study showed that the companies are in need of enhancing the

cooperation between the departments. The data recorded by the

participants has showed that theGCC states have the highest percentage

compared with the others. %72 of the participants confirmed that

different business and information technology teams must collaborate

with each other to make the use of ‘Cloud Computing’ useful.

%35 of the participants pointed that the senior administrations do

not consult the information technology administration when doing

the procurement, which in its turn constitute a big barrier to adopt

an integrated cloud methodology, meanwhile %39 of the participants

said that the lack of understanding the integrated cloud unit by

the administrations is one of the challenges encountered by the

infrastructure of adopting the cloud computing.

Moreover, the study showed that the method of using the technology

is by itself in need of change, since %49 of the Gulf companies are not

efficientlyusingplatforms,and%50ofthemarelateinitsimplementation.

On the other hand, %39 of the companies have recorded weakness in

the applications integration which in its turn shall affect the innovation.

According to the report, %35 of the companies are suffering from

inconsistency in their infrastructure, %35 increased information

technology risks, %30 increase in the costs and %30 stable investment

revenues. Accordingly, these cases are considered obstacles in adopting

an integrated methodology in cloud computing which in its turn will

create better cooperation.

Pascal Gerward, Director of LaaS and Cloud Computing in Europe,

Middle East and Africa in Oracle explained that: ‘some of the

infrastructure cases, that has become very rigid, sophisticated and

disturbing, must be solved since they have led to the lack of response

and disintegration within the organization, which leads to the loss of

innovation opportunities’.

He added ‘we can use infrastructure solutions like LaaS service which

allows the companies to connect its departments and move to more

cooperative environment. Furthermore, it provides a mutual base for

innovation, removes all the barriers surrounding the resources and

limits the formation of unorganized groups of data’.