Report 06 May 2025

CxO Survey - Investment Priorities - Cloud Computing - InSight Analysis - Worldwide

To provide guidance against a highly dynamic IT landscape, PAC conducted the 2024/25 edition of its annual SITSI® CxO Investment Priorities Survey, interviewing IT decision-makers in user companies covering PAC’s SITSI core markets to get their views on current IT trends, key requirements, and investment plans. The survey was conducted in October/November 2024.

This report presents and discusses the key results of the study for the topic of cloud computing.

The interviews were conducted with IT department managers and line-of-business managers who are involved in decisions concerning (local) IT budgets, IT investments, or IT sourcing. The survey sample was made up of companies of different sizes from all over the world.

Contents:

PAC’s Analysis

  • Management summary
  • PAC’s opinion
  • PAC’s recommendations

Challenges & IT Spending at a Glance

  • Economic and IT challenges
  • IT spending and projects

IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS – Cloud Computing: Usage Areas, Deployment Models, Platforms, Strategies, and Challenges

  • Cloud usage areas
  • Cloud deployment models
  • Major public IaaS/PaaS platform vendors
  • Cloud-related services
  • Cloud strategy
  • Cloud challenges

This report is accompanied by the Excel document “CxO Survey – Investment Priorities – Cloud Computing – Detailed Datamart – Worldwide”, which contains the detailed findings from the survey for cloud computing, broken down by company size and vertical sector.