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Cloud Adoption Will Accelerate and Become Ubiquitous in 2022
By Alessandro Chimera, Director of
Digitalization Strategy at TIBCO and Tony Beller, SVP Worldwide Partner
Ecosystems at TIBCO
Cloud
technology continues to be a growth opportunity across industries, including
telecommunications, financial services, and manufacturing to name a few.
Different industries are undergoing major digital transformation to stay
competitive and organizations that adopt the cloud will be able to innovate
more easily and operate more efficiently. Organizations have increasingly
adopted the cloud throughout 2021 to modernize IT operations and enable
business growth. In 2022, we'll see cloud adoption accelerate and become
ubiquitous across various industries.
For
example, cloud use cases will expand in the following:
- Telecommunications: Hybrid work is here to stay - telecommunications
companies connect people and data and their roles are especially important as
we shift towards a distributed workforce. We'll see advances in 5G, as well as
more focus on AI and automation to expand connectivity.
- Financial services: Financial institutions, including banks and
insurance firms, are challenged by complex infrastructure, deployment options,
and security concerns. We'll see adopted use to increase business growth and
improve customer analytics and regulatory compliance. We can expect to see more
AI in dynamic pricing, and the cloud will increasingly be used to facilitate
that.
- Higher education: The pandemic forced higher education institutions to
transition to remote learning. As students return to in-person learning, we'll
see continued adoption to help schools pivot and continue operations during
unpredictable times. The cloud will only accelerate in higher education, with
the goal of reducing operating costs and improving efficiency and productivity.
- Manufacturing: There will be a push in manufacturing to adopt more
cloud solutions. Especially during the pandemic, with nationwide stay-at-home
orders, factories have started to be more remote-managed, with less skilled
operators being assisted by remote and highly skilled technicians, often called
OTS or over-the-shoulder assistance, with the use of augmented reality (AR).
This requires large integrations between systems and applications with the
development of APIs published as services. We will also see more manufacturers
using digital twins that are optimized with the use of AI.
- Manufacturing: In manufacturing, the cloud will result in two
benefits: business efficiencies and IT efficiencies. On the business side, we
will see better collaboration between subject matter experts by breaking down
data silos and introducing more technologies like AIoT, no-code/low-code
platforms, and data science. For IT efficiencies, we will see more cloud, which
means there will be less need for on-premise IT infrastructures to save
maintenance costs.
The
continued adoption of the cloud will also challenge channel partners'
traditional business models.
- Partners will need to think beyond the software optimization
and on-premise delivery services to consider the efficiencies of a cloud-based
infrastructure. There is a lack of partner and vendor skill set to effectively do both.
Organizations need to be proactive in getting help from partners that can make
these cloud connections through programs that connect with systems integrators and cloud hyper-scalers to build
customer-centric, cloud-based architectures.
- As the workplace becomes increasingly digital and automated,
partners and organizations will need to collaborate. The growth in robotic process automation
(RPA) and integration platform as a service (iPaas) highlights the importance
of partnering to deliver solutions that help refocus your employees on
higher-value work and ensure business continuity by digitizing human-centric
activities. Organizations that are transforming digitally need to embed human
decisions into key points within an automated process when ingenuity is needed.
This will help prevent stalls in the workflow by automatically routing process
failures, issues, or key decisions to the right person - with processes
designed for humans.
The
future of the cloud will see accelerated growth across various industries, as
digital innovation and digital transformation continue in 2022. Cloud ubiquity
will allow organizations the flexibility to scale efficiently and quickly meet
the demands of their customers. Cloud adoption will also challenge partners'
traditional business models. Organizations and partners will need to
proactively build cloud-based architectures that are also customer-centric. The
cloud will also allow organizations, regardless of industry, to focus on their
core business offerings and optimize business spending.
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Tony Beller – Senior Vice President, Worldwide Partner Ecosystems and OEM Sales
Tony Beller is responsible for Worldwide Partner Ecosystems and OEM
Sales at TIBCO. In his role, Tony works to build new markets with the
partner ecosystem, drive revenue, and ensure customer success through
partners, including service providers, resellers, system integrators,
independent software vendors, OEM partners, and technology partners.
Prior to TIBCO, he helped build strategic partner ecosystems at leading
companies, most recently at Anaplan, ServiceNow, and Salesforce.
Alessandro Chimera - Director of Digitalization Strategy and an Industry Consultant at TIBCO
Alessandro Chimera is the Director of Digitalization Strategy and an Industry Consultant at TIBCO, where he develops and communicates next-generation digitalization strategies and points-of-view. He provides guidance, empowering customers to digitally transform their businesses to innovate and grow. Alessandro collaborates with partners, analysts, and various internal teams, in addition to publishing white papers, articles, and blogs as part of TIBCO's global thought leadership team.