Kevin Noonan, Research Director, Public Sector

Although there is general acceptance that cloud services are here to stay, a number of enterprises are still skeptical about whether cloud computing is really up to the job when it comes to delivering big and complicated government services. Against this backdrop, the New Zealand government’s successful national census provides valuable lessons about how to drive a large-scale cloud implementation, as we explain in our recent report Driving Government Innovation Through Cloud Services.

The national census has always been a big and complex undertaking

The national census is one of the oldest and most complicated peacetime activities that a country can undertake. The sheer logistics of the exercise has confounded many governments over the centuries, and even now it is just as complex. In many developed economies, the scope of each census has continued to expand as countries try to gain an even …