A majority of technology leaders at large organizations find themselves at a crossroads: they believe that the cloud is the best place to run enterprise-scale analytics, but almost all of them also agree that the march toward the cloud is moving slower than it should—especially among the largest companies in the world, where there are perceived challenges to performing data and analytics at scale.

The disparity between where these global companies are, and where they want to be, when it comes to running analytics in the cloud is a stark finding in a comprehensive new survey conducted by the market research firm Vanson Bourne, on behalf of Teradata. The survey, titled “The State of Analytics in the Cloud,” polled 700 global organizations with average annual revenue of $9.73 billion about their ambitions, fears, and investments in cloud analytics.