Abstract

This IDC Market Presentation provides an executive summary of the worldwide findings from IDC's 2021 Industry CloudPath Survey.

Industry CloudPath provides deep insight into how each industry is moving to the cloud for 30 industry segments, including healthcare (payers — United States only, providers — United States only, pharma and biotech, medical devices, and CROs), manufacturing (discrete, process, aerospace and defense, automotive, industrial products and equipment, high tech, CPG, chemicals, paper mills, and metals and materials), wholesale distribution, financial services (banking, insurance, and capital markets), retail, energy (oil and gas, power utilities, water utilities, and gas utilities), government (federal — United States only and state and local — United States only), education (K–12 — United States only and higher education), hospitality and food service (includes commercial travel), media and entertainment, telecommunications, and professional services.

Coverage includes overall adoption, application migration strategy and timing, drivers and inhibitors, budgeting trends, purchasing preferences, attitudes toward buying channels, vendor ratings and advocacy scores, behavioral trends, and cloud adoption and buying intentions for 200+ industry-specific applications.

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