cloud skills gap A report published today by global software and cloud solutions provider SoftwareOne Holding AG, shows that 98% of organisations globally are facing a cloud skills gap. This is causing digital transformation projects to fall behind by an average of five months, with one-third of businesses claiming their financial objectives will take a significant hit as a result. The SoftwareOne Cloud Skills Survey canvassed the opinions of 500 IT decision-makers (ITDMs) from the UK, Benelux (Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg), North America, and Australia to understand how the cloud-skills shortage is impacting IT teams and how they plan to combat it in 2024. EXPO23 Ad Almost all (95%) of the IT decision-makers believe their team has been negatively impacted by the cloud skills gap, while nearly two-thirds (62%) report having their workload increase in the last 12 months. When looking at how the cloud skills gap had impacted the teams’ work, the survey found that vital areas were being missed. 43% of respondents noted their organisations have struggled to keep up to date with security and compliance. Further, two fifths (41%)have had application performance issues and outages, and 38% have missed KPIs on delivering new innovations to […]