39% of Small Businesses Will Be Buying Cloud Services Within 3 Years

About 39 percent of small and medium-sized businesses recently surveyed by Edge Strategies on behalf of Microsoft say they expect to be using, and paying for, cloud-based services within three years.

Accounting and payroll apps, project management, data storage and customer relationship management are among the top categories of apps respondents expect they will be sourcing from a cloud services provider.

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