You’ve adopted the cloud, got a high level of storage and moved a lot of apps in – but you’re still not getting as much work done as you thought.

That’s the alarming case with more than half of respondents to an Oracle-conducted survey entitled ‘Cloud for Business Managers: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly’.

54% of the 1355 executives polled said that they had suffered staff downtime as a result of difficulties with cloud integration. In terms of specific numbers, this amounted to 11 downtime situations per department surveyed in the last six months. Struggling cloud integration also affects departments which don’t even use cloud apps, the research found.

Similarly, 54% of respondents also said that deadlines had been missed during the past six months “due to a lack of cloud data being shared effectively around the organisation”. Whether cloud technology can actually be blamed …