This transformation was enabled by the SAP Concur platform.
So says Rob Harrison, MD of SAP Concur for the UK and Ireland.
So does the cloud have a silver lining from the fallout of Covid-19?
A small increase but growth is growth.
Cloud computing is seen as an essential feature of digital transformation for any business.
So it seems that many organizations have heeded the Churchillian maxim of not letting a crisis go to waste.
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Digital transformation without the cloud is not impossible but its very limited in scope.
Alongside AWS, other big players in the cloud market include Microsoft Azure and Google.
In Farmers view, it is worth taking a careful and considered approach to migrating to the cloud.
He did not see a rush to the cloud once lockdown began.
So it wasnt as if people saw cloud as an answer to the problem.
It was just the easiest and most effective way to continue with a project.
He added that reduced costs are a consequence of the above.
If you make things simpler and more straightforward then there should be a cost-benefit from that.
Covid-19 disrupted everything
How is Cloud Compute and data storage being used to deal with Covid challenges?
He explained how this meant not having to pay for unutilized storage.
The company is paying minimal to nearly no money to us while they are going through these difficult times.
At the end of March,36% of British workerswere working remotely.
Face to face meetings became impossible leading to a radically different way of working.
This didnt pose a problem to digital-first companies.
Perez of Snowflake said: Snowflake was built to survive and thrive in this world.
Everybody was, from the beginning, prepared to and could work from home.
We had all the tools and resources in place to be in a work-from-home environment.
The number ofdaily meeting participantsrocketed from 10 million to 300 million.
Cloud-based communication tools have helped organizations around the world to continue their operations.
The move was planned for next year, but Covid-19 reduced the time frame.
She said: After locking down we have faced so many problems because we were not prepared for it.
Challenges may arise that we may not be able to even conceive at the moment.
They are now facilitating those technical people who have always wanted to make that move.
The consensus seems to be that the pandemic should have given companies that push to move into the cloud.
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