29.9.2023
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
C 344/99
Figure 11 shows the Digital Decade and baseline trajectories for the share of firms using sophisticated or intermediate cloud services.
The estimated 2030 value in the ‘business as usual’ scenario falls short of the 2030 target value by approximately 10 percentage points if no additional investments are implemented (66 % is the 2030 forecast projected along the baseline trajectory).
Figure 11 Share of enterprises using cloud services in the EU.
Historical data, Digital Decade (DD) trajectory and baseline trajectory towards 2030 (25)
Big data: The technology adoption rationale described by an S-shaped curve applies here too.
Big data analysis take-up is expected to be slow in the beginning, accelerating after a while to reach a slower final uptake.
This will probably be driven by very small firms that may have less incentive to adopt big data technologies.
Also in this case, the market saturation point is set at 80 %, above the target of 75 %, to allow for a further increase after the target has been reached.
The speed of diffusion parameter is set so that the 75 % target is reached by 2030 in the Digital Decade trajectory.
Figure 12 shows the Digital Decade and baseline trajectories for the share of firms using big data analysis.
The estimated 2030 value in the ‘business as usual’ scenario is far below the 2030 target (34 % is the 2030 forecast projected along the baseline trajectory).
(25) Eurostat’s indicator ‘Enterprises purchasing at least one of the following cloud computing (CC) services: hosting of the enterprise’s database, accounting software applications, customer relationship management software, computing power’ (code E_CC_GE_ME) is used for the period 2014-2020.
A break in series occurred in 2021 when the indicator ‘Enterprises buying sophisticated or intermediate CC Services’ was used.
This indicator includes different CC services: Accounting software (CC_PFACC); ERP software (CC_PERP); CRM software (CC_PCRM); Security software (CC_PSEC); Database hosting (CC_PDB) and Hosting environment for application development (CC_PDEV).