In 2014 it was estimated 30% of enterprises would adopt a cloud service broker to better enable the cloud. There are three primary areas a cloud service broker can address in accelerating the adoption of the cloud:
- Aggregation – enabling the consumption of cloud by end users via a cloud application marketplace approved by the company
- Integration – ensuring cloud applications exchange data with each other and with on-premise applications to orchestrate business processes
- Customization – augmenting cloud services with changes to data schema or enhanced security and compliance