According to Computerweekly.com, cloud-based contracts made up a third of IT outsourcing contracts in 2016. Using the information gathered by ISG it was found that a quarter of total spending on IT and business process outsourcing contracts was on cloud-based services, or as-a-service contracts. John Keppel, president at ISG, welcomed the emergence of as-a-service contracting “Although growth in the use of these new technologies and services has been slow to take off in EMEA, we expect to see the impetus around these systems build in the region as public cloud providers expand their datacentre footprint across Europe,”. To read the article by ComputerWeekly.com, click here.