Digital-First World: Enterprise Applications Are Shifting and Reshaping as the Digital World Evolves

This IDC Perspective looks at the shifting and reshaping landscape of enterprise applications and their use within organizations of all sizes. Organizations are moving into the digital-first world and as they do, the enterprise applications are shifting and reshaping to help small, medium-sized, and large organizations become more digitally enabled. Vendors have varying methods to help the organizations from modularity to full decomposition to SaaS and cloud enabled to suites and best-of-breed options."The digital-first world has arrived and with it are new pathways to digital enablement across all size of businesses," said Mickey North Rizza, group vice president, Enterprise Software. "Organizations are learning they can quickly fill in the blanks, build their own, add/delete and change up the business, and move to integrated suites. Ultimately each digital-first world journey is different. Understanding the business pain points, desired outcomes, and timing are the critical drivers to selecting the best course of action."