The impact of Covid-19 has paved the way for Australian enterprises to ramp up and expand their digital migration. As per a research report published by Information Services Group (ISG), this accelerated transformation has resulted in the generation of growing demand for cloud-native IT solutions on hyperscaler platforms, which include Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Organizations are now looking for cloud solutions that decrease cost, improve business agility, enhance security, and produce measurable business results, according to the 2021 ISG Provider Lens AWS Ecosystem Partner report for Australia. This growing demand has also expanded companies’ engagement with AWS service providers.
“Innovative service providers are responding to Australia’s enterprise public cloud trend by extending and promoting their services and capabilities, even as they adapt their own businesses to new requirements such as remote work,”
Scott Bertsch, partner, and regional leader, ISG Asia Pacific
According to the report, managed service providers (MSPs) have taken up traditional system integrator roles as more firms move to the cloud and respond to pandemic-related disruption. Many MSPs are also growing their involvement with AWS by investing in more skills, acquiring other providers and expanding their roles.
The recent disruptions have made the demand for data even more critical, according to ISG. Digital transformation has made Australian businesses more aware of how much data they can gather and use. Companies are now looking for advanced data analytics capabilities, such as the usage of machine learning, and many have chosen AWS as their platform of choice. The scarcity of trained staff in this industry has pushed enterprises towards service providers for analytics capabilities.
According to the report, many Australian companies pursuing digital transformation are transferring their SAP instances to AWS or launching brand new instances on the platform. The pandemic has only added to the drive to migrate workloads to the cloud, and many enterprises are contacting SAP migration and management service providers.