Connected Future: How Cloud Drives Business Innovation

“Everything connects to everything else,” da Vinci famously said. Several centuries later, the era of mass computing introduced technologies that connected the world in unimaginable ways.

Today, cloud technologies enable us to go even further – to overcome exising limitations of scale and bring partners, data, supply chains, and customers together on levels previously unknown.

And with this connectedness, organizations open a future of innovations. Fueled by cloud-native capabiliies and data-intensive technologies like artificial intelligence (for example, generative AI) and IoT, stakeholders can become participants of ecosystems that combine and transform their collective experise into new sources of value. Together, they can harness insights, and apply skills and knowledge to spur innovation to the benefit of all – whether it’s solving complex societal and climate challenges or creating new markets and revenue streams.

But to what extent has this evolution already occurred within organizations today and what does it look like, particularly with economic pressures? Faced with the massive demand for tailor-made cloud-native applications, how are organizations using cloud-enabled business models to innovate at scale? Are they employing strategic cloud planning capabilities to build an intelligent platform that can harness insights from data across multiple end points? Are they realizing the promise of ecosystems capabilities.