1. Clouds Coalesce
We've seen scads of cloud solutions come to market for specific business departments and processes -- sales uses one SaaS vendor, IT another. For many enterprises, HR, finance, billing, product development and project management all employ their own isolated cloud platforms.
Ultimately, these clouds will need to connect to each other to provide the expansive functionality that users are demanding, all managed from the single pane of glass and seamlessly sharing data.
Look for new integration solutions to come to market in 2015 from the big players in all these markets, as well as from agile startups leveraging the power of public APIs.
’What we’re seeing happen is an evolution as cloud vendors have begun to build the requisite connections to draw themselves closer,’ Allan Leinwand, vice president and CTO of cloud platform and infrastructure at ServiceNow, told CRN.
