Embracing Cloud in the Cognitive Era

June 28, 2016 Off By David

Grazed from MISAsia. Author: Jason Teo.

Did you know that 70 percent of the companies that were once on the Fortune 1000 list in 2003 have now vanished? In fact, analysts predict that over the next three years, at least one-third of the top 20 companies in every industry will be equally disrupted if they do not move fast enough. So what is the cause of this disruptive trend?

According to our 2016 Global C-Suite study, 77 percent of the CIOs interviewed, attribute this disruption to the influence of new technologies. While they believe mobile solutions, cloud computing and the Internet of Things will continue to have the most significant impact on their organisations over the next three to five years, over 60 percent of them think cognitive computing could revolutionise businesses as well…

As we enter into the cognitive era, an era where systems have the ability to learn at scale, reason with purpose, and interact naturally with people, companies are beginning to realise that they are merely scratching the surface of what cloud can do if they deploy cloud in their business to solely save money…

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