This IDC study is the IDC MaturityScape for multicloud management. After reading this study, IT decision makers will be equipped to effectively evaluate the existing maturity of their organization's cloud management tools, processes, and governance models and will be able to create a collaborative process to harness internal best practices and available services and tools in ways that best promote business agility and innovation.

"Multicloud management strategies need to look beyond the simple automated cloud resource provisioning and configuration needs of individual teams and departments," explains Mary Johnston Turner, research vice president, Enterprise Systems Management Software. "Enterprises need a structured process to harness best practices, standardize configurations and management tools, and take full advantage of state-of-the art cloud application performance monitoring and analytics."