Predictions made of faster cloud adoption in Asia-Pacific compared to other regions have mostly come true. We found a similar stronger cloud adoption for data management and data warehousing in Asia-Pacific in SAPinsider’s recently published Data Management and Data Warehousing in the Cloud Benchmark report. This survey was administered to 213 respondents with Asia-Pacific making up 22%. In this article, we examine some of the key insights into how respondents in Asia-Pacific are approaching this very important topic, and how Asia-Pacific compares to other regions. Overall, survey data from Asia-Pacific respondents demonstrates that they score higher than other regions across various dimensions such as appetite to host data on the cloud, crafting of a broad enterprise strategy across SAP and non-SAP data, deployment of cloud-based data stores, and investment in sophisticated data tools. 79% of Asia-Pacific respondents state that their enterprise data strategy completely meets requirements as opposed to only 18% across all regions. Asia-Pacific respondents are already leading with respect to deploying data on the cloud. Respondents in the region also display a markedly higher need to minimize IT costs (38%) compared to the other regions. They also have an increased organizational focus on cloud-first strategy for new systems and infrastructure (32%). They also display a relatively more sophisticated approach in data management, especially with cloud-based solutions. They exceed other regions in the deployment of cloud database, warehouse and data services. Read the Market Insights on Asia-Pacific to:

• Discover how companies in the region are moving data to the cloud and their drivers for doing so.
• Learn the specific challenges of companies in the region in moving data to the cloud.
• Understand the processes and technologies they are using to deliver key insights to the business.

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