This IDC report describes how businesses need to be relevant and competent amid new market dynamics such as GDPR – driven by the movement to keep data private and give control to data owners -analytics-driven marketing and decision making, open banking mandates, cost pressures, and business transformation mandates.

It explains that, to keep pace with digital transformation initiatives, organizations must move beyond the transformation of peripheral applications – which can lead to siloed innovation – and integrate core applications and data with modern development and deployment approaches.