IDC PlanScape: Industry Clouds

This IDC PlanScape discusses how industry clouds offer a specialized model for deploying cloud services, integrating industry-specific functions, applications, and data into a single ecosystem. They provide significant benefits such as improved productivity, collaboration, and analytics — especially for regulated industries such as financial services and healthcare — and their adoption is growing across industries. Industry clouds are poised to support the development of AI and automation for high-value industry use cases, and they are already offering unmatched compliance, time to value, and consumption convenience."Today, more than half of enterprises worldwide are using industry clouds for their core business operations. These platforms and solutions offer unparalleled time to value, industry compliance, and AI readiness, among other benefits. This document provides a high-level road map for organizations looking to leverage industry clouds in any industry," said Nadia Ballard, senior research manager, Industry Cloud and SaaS.