The digital economy raises the expectations with regards to companies and their functional departments: reporting needs are growing, the time to deploy overseas operations or close them are shorter and trend towards real time. Analytical and transactional logic blend so that data collected on the customer or connected objects can drive the activity.
The company must rethink its business processes to increase productivity and efficacy, remove complexity, and become proactive. The tools driving the processes reinvent themselves and come out of pure transactional logic to guide decision-making. The user experience is similar to that of digital devices used in their personal life to gain ease of use, secure adoption, and adapt to usage environments. The cloud is revolutionizing how applications are placed at the disposal of companies.
The platform economy is winning the enterprise: with adapted solutions, the organization is at the heart of business networks and interfaces its processes with third parties to make this "extended enterprise" a controllable entity and a source of productivity.
