What is a top motivating factor for moving enterprise performance management (EPM) to the cloud? When asked why they decided to move EPM to the cloud, 48% of respondents to our EPM Top Trends survey cited the desire to avoid on-premises upgrades. With systems starting to age, organizations are looking more closely at what's involved with upgrades, and the cloud offers a compelling alternative.
That's just one juicy nugget that came out of the annual survey. This year, we also asked the question, "What could you do in the cloud that you couldn't do before?" Here is a short sampling of responses: