Wipro FullStride Cloud Services global report Making Business Thrive: A Cloud Leader Roadmap for Achieving 10x ROI confirms that leaders are moving to the next generation of cloud.  Maximizing the cloud’s transformative capabilities to move beyond cost optimization to now being the platform for growth and unlocking new business opportunities.  

Most importantly, this global survey of 1,300 executives from 11 industries across six countries provides a roadmap of 7 actionable steps companies can start taking immediately to accelerate cloud adoption and become a cloud leader.  Steps that enable them to take a full stride forward and fully scale their cloud investments across the entire enterprise.

Key findings include:

• Cloud ROI jumps tenfold as cloud leaders realize a 12% improvement to their bottom line compared with a 2.6% increase for their less-mature counterparts
• As the cloud becomes more intelligent, hyperconnected, and pervasive, it is morphing from a cost play to growth driver. In two years, the cloud will increase revenue for 59% of firms, market share for 46%, customer retention for 31%, and shareholder value for 30%. 
• C-Suites understands the cloud imperative and helps lead the way. Among cloud leaders, about 8 out of 10 CEOs and COOs play a dominant or key role in cloud implementation.
• Avoiding common cloud journey pitfalls and develop a cohesive cloud strategy & roadmap 
• Maximizing full use of the resources that cloud hyperscalers offer
• …and many more