Digital solutions companies highlight Qatar’s post-Covid business environment

Digital solutions companies highlight Qatar’s post-Covid business environment

At the SAP RISE on the Road event, held today in Doha with strategic partners Deloitte and Google Cloud, SAP underscored the impact and importance of cloud computing which has taken precedence during the Covid-19 pandemic.

With digital transformation fuelling change in Qatar's business environment, both public and private sector organisations have seen a demand for agile and scalable IT infrastructures that are not only efficient, but quick to adapt to changing scenarios, enable seamless adoption of new technologies and encourage new business models.

According to a recent survey in Qatar by SAP in partnership with YouGov, there has been a large-scale organisational shift towards cloud and digital transformation during the pandemic period, with more than 60% of respondents in Qatar stating that Covid-19 has significantly accelerated their digital transformation efforts.

Some 80% of Qatar-based CIOs agreed that technology is vital to the improved delivery of customer and citizen services.

In addition to this, 40% of CIOs in Qatar plan to invest in cloud solutions in 2022 and an equal percentage will also invest in artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies.

More than half of the CIOs surveyed said that digital skills development is a major priority for their organisation this year.

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