Gartner 2019 Hype Cycle Shows Cloud Office Has Hit Mainstream Adoption in Government Agencies

Cloud office is the only technology to enter the Plateau of Productivity in the 2019 Gartner Hype Cycle for Digital Government Technology, according to Gartner, Inc. The Plateau of Productivity highlights technologies that are hitting mainstream adoption within organizations.

“Cloud office penetration has passed 50% across organizations and adoption among government agencies in particular is growing strongly,” said Jeffrey Mann, research vice president at Gartner. “Cloud office has become an accepted cornerstone of most government agencies’ collaboration and communications infrastructure strategies.”

Government agencies are moving rapidly to adopt cloud-office platforms because of the desire to consolidate collaboration environments, reduce costs, redeploy IT staff, drive simplicity and provide more functionality to users more quickly. Cloud office makes the introduction of capabilities including everyday artificial intelligence (AI), mobile collaboration, collaborative content authoring and workstream collaboration part of the mainstream.

Cloud services for government, positioned in the Slope of Enlightenment, will have a transformational business impact in less than two years. “Government agencies acknowledge that public cloud is secure, and some are even making plans to adopt public cloud across protected, secret domains. But the majority remain in private clouds,” said Neville Cannon, senior research director at Gartner. “In addition, more countries continue to adopt cloud-first policies — Brazil and Colombia are the latest, while Kuwait is currently developing its own.”

Digital government technology platforms (DGTPs) will have a transformational impact on businesses in the next two to five years. “Digital technology platforms are emerging across government agencies as they allow governments to retire legacy systems and infrastructure and therefore achieve greater economies of scale,” said Alia Mendonsa, senior research director at Gartner. “They also provide secure, automated citizen-centric digital government services for all types of services such as appointments, payments and eligibility for benefits.”

Gartner analysts said that DGTPs will continue penetration across governments as they offer enterprise solutions that support development of sustainable and scalable digital government services. 

(For more information visit https://www.gartner.com)