IDC PlanScape: Modernizing Cloud Back- and Middle-Office Business Services

This IDC PlanScape examines back- and middle-office cloud-based business services. "The media and entertainment (M&E) industry is now well on its way to cloud adoption, but navigating through its complexities to achieve targeted financial objectives requires a new way of thinking," said Alex Holtz, research director, Worldwide Media and Entertainment Digital Strategies at IDC. "As M&E organizations transition to cloud services, they have the unique opportunity to not only adopt advanced, highly integrated native cloud business systems and advanced AI/ML and data science technologies but also rethink how best to achieve a total cost of ownership (TCO) model that works for their organization, but more importantly achieve their profitability goal."