Technological Trends in Portugal

The idea of the study was to identify the state of maturity of Portuguese organisations regarding the adoption of computing services in the Cloud, what could be the developments over the next years, and identify the steps needed for the Portuguese organisations to create value in this new technological paradigm.

Most organisations in Portugal have not invested enough in the implementation of management processes, technologies and a set of skills that are necessary to achieve the majority of the objectives related to Cloud Computing. At the same time, most organisations that have adopted some sort of strategy related to Cloud Computing feel that their skills are not fully prepared to support their goals. 

Some of the study conclusions are as follows:

• Until 2020 the three main categories for Cloud Computing services – Private, Private Hosting and Public – will represent more than 40% of the corporate budgets;
• One-third of the Portuguese organisations have already implemented Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) services;
• Only 17% of the Portuguese organisations have already incorporated cloud computing in they business strategy;
• Services such as unified communications (14% of organisations), e-mail (12% of organisations), collaborative applications (11% of organisations), CRM (8% of organisations), management/development of websites (8% of organisations) and development and testing of applications (7% of organisations) are the Public Cloud services with greater use in the country;
• We are witnessing a rapid technological change, designated as the 3^rd Technology Platform based on four key pillars: Mobility, Cloud services, Social technologies, and Big Data, where organisations can achieve higher competitiveness gains or to support internationalisation processes either to increase operational efficiency, innovate on the supply side and become more agile and able to adapt to the actual and future market conditions;
• Cloud Computing allows organisations to create value for their business in three key areas – creating a better user experience, improving operational efficiency, and innovating business models;

This study is based on the IDC methodological framework that combines information from different sources worldwide. During October and November, 2014, IDC analysed a sample of 358 organisations in Portugal, from