State of the Nonprofit Cloud

• Cloud services are a core part of nonprofit operations with 100% of survey respondents indicating they use at least two cloud services, up from 80% of survey participants in our last survey.

• The newest addition to organizations’ cloud services ecosystems is document storage.
• Leading factors in decision making are service features and the ability for staff to work remotely (remote access) with the service.
• In evaluating potential services, the biggest concern is whether staff will have reliable access to the organization’s data.
• In comparing installed versus hosted services, respondents noted staff training as important but not likely to have a difference in their selection (contrast this to the results in NTEN’s annual Tech Staffing & Investment research, where respondents indicate that they have the tools they need but not the training to use those tools well).

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