Rise of the Cloud Software Platforms

Over the past few years “moving to the cloud” has been a key objective for many companies. With full cloud adoption in SME’s expected to reach 60% by 2020, the next challenge comes through the integration and standardisation of business processes across the various cloud software systems, driven largely by the accelerating advancement in machine learning and predictive analytics.

The strategy to move to the cloud was a gradual one for many businesses, over time one business function after the other would be migrated to cloud based SaaS (software) solutions. However, as cloud technologies matured, many companies were left with an expanding stack of cloud software applications that became increasingly misaligned as business and user requirements changed. In fact it takes an average of 15 Cloud Software applications to enable an SME to be 100% cloud.