Lionel Sujay Vailshery
Research expert covering the consumer electronics industry
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Industry clouds offer a variety of infrastructure, platforms, software, and partner solutions that cater to specific industries. Known as "composable business", this approach promotes the flexibility and autonomy of business operation strategies for managing cloud costs. It also provides customers with access to a wide range of partners and suppliers, allowing them to take advantage of a hybrid cloud model. As a result, more organizations are adopting industry cloud services to develop agile and innovative business strategies that align with their core competencies.Industry cloud platforms offer valuable benefits through the use of innovative supporting technologies and approaches. This may come in the form of an integrated data fabric – referring to unified architecture for accessing, managing, and analyzing data – a marketplace with pre-packaged business capabilities, and composability tooling. These features enable organizations to respond quickly to the fast pace of change and remain agile by combining various data pipelines and cloud environments with the help of smart automation.
Industry cloud: the future of businesses in the U.S.?
Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, IBM, and Oracle are some of the leading cloud service providers offering industry-specific solutions in the U.S. market. Some examples of such solutions include AWS, which has a retail service for online and brick-and-mortar operations; Microsoft Azure, which provides financial services businesses with regulatory tools; Google Cloud Platform, which offers a healthcare service for improving patient care; IBM Cloud, which offers manufacturing businesses tools for improving efficiency; and Oracle Cloud, which offers retail businesses tools for improving customer experience. More industry cloud services are expected to emerge as the adoption of the industry cloud market in the U.S. grows.
