Despite the immense potential for efficiency offered by the proliferation of
cloud and SaaS solutions, integration of these solutions into often disparate
enterprise IT frameworks continues to be a challenge for many businesses.
Even traditional B2B integration faces greater complexity with the growing
adoption of cloud and SaaS applications. Building on this complexity are
things such as changes to privacy regulations that have occurred over the
past decade - particularly in relation to healthcare and financial data - as
well as the speed of data demands from distributed supply chains.
Over the next year, I anticipate that businesses will increasingly look to
managed services that offer industry expertise, proven processes and in-depth
technology to streamline cloud integration and data management initiatives
that have been implemented over the past several years. W... (more)