Other considerations for moving to cloud computing include improving processes to offer more agility across the enterprise (80%), and offering technical benefits that they otherwise could not gain from their own data centers (76%).

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As an interesting new book by Alan W. Brown, Enterprise Software Delivery: Bringing Agility and Efficiency to the Global Software Supply Chain (Addison Wesley, 2012), points out the consequent shift from software development to software delivery, combining constant innovation and control at the enterprise level.

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The emergence of big data into the enterprise brings with it a necessary counterpart: agility.

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