Operational silos have been preventing businesses from realising the value of cloud applications, according to a new report from Oracle.
Oracle’s ‘Cloud for Business Managers: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly’ report, revealed that the majority of organisations globally have not yet sufficiently incorporated their cloud applications across their business operations.
The report revealed that about 54% of organisations involved in the global survey disclosed that their firms have witnessed staff downtime over the last six months due to cloud application integration problems.
Additionally, 54% of respondents added that project deadlines were missed at the same time due to similar problems related to the lack of cloud application integration, which left applications isolated from the rest of their business operations.
About 83% of of businesses reported that they were prevented from getting the best out of their departmental cloud applications, the survey revealed.
Oracle product marketing VP, Rex Wang, said cloud applications have the power to dramatically improve business performance while reducing costs, but only if they can work across the business.
"For example, sales managers need to have their territory planning and quota management tools integrated with the Human Resource and Compensation applications in order to better drive behaviour and achieve sales goals," Wang said.
"Subscribing to a cloud service may be relatively straightforward, but how this application fits in with the rest of the enterprise, including on-premise systems and other cloud applications must be thought through."
About 53% pointed towards a deficiency of integration as a problem, while 36% reported of failing to integrate cloud apps with software already owned by their firms.
