Cloud Transformation: From Infrastructure to Verticals

Embracing the cloud doesn’t require some big bang effort. Indeed, it can be done in small, thoughtful steps that help you side-step complicated legacy app renewals or disruptive core modernization initiatives

- Mukul Singhal

Over the past two years, organizations have become more resilient and have been efficiently utilizing the power of cloud especially by offloading their infrastructure or business processes. As a result, the cloud providers have been developing different solutions and accelerators to support the needs of the industry. These solutions have been helping in ease of business and enable organizations to embark on the journey to digital transformation.

Cloud providers are now focusing on unique vertical needs for any organization. Hence, over the next foreseeable future, “cloud going vertical” is gaining momentum. Organization with perform assessment of their business process ecosystem are considering cloud sourcing. It will incrementally add efficiency and effectiveness to most of the processes and deliver the competitive advantage.

Initially CIOs began with “lift and shift” on public cloud to gain efficiencies and operate at lower cost followed by optimization and modernization of applications and infrastructure. Onwards they are looking for availability of industry specific business process solutions expecting cloud providers to address the need of modular business processes across industries and ecosystems.

The “big three” cloud services providers—Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure—offer cloud-based industry solutions that automate business processes that are unique to sectors like manufacturing, financial services, automotive, healthcare, retail, and media, among others.