PUBLISHER: The Business Research Company | PRODUCT CODE: 1888135
PUBLISHER: The Business Research Company | PRODUCT CODE: 1888135
Cloud workflow refers to the orchestration of tasks, events, and decisions that operate on cloud infrastructure to complete a process from start to finish. Its primary purpose is to automate and standardize multi-step work across applications and services, ensuring reliability and scalability while minimizing manual effort, errors, and completion time.
The main components of cloud workflow include platform and services. A platform is a cohesive software foundation that integrates runtimes, tools, and shared services into a unified environment, enabling teams to build, deploy, and operate applications more efficiently. It is often implemented as an internal developer platform that abstracts underlying infrastructure and enforces operational guardrails. Cloud workflow solutions offer various deployment models, including public cloud, private cloud, and hybrid cloud, and are utilized by small and medium enterprises as well as large enterprises. These solutions are applied for business process management, integration and orchestration, data management and analytics, and content management across several end users, including banking, financial services, and insurance, healthcare, retail, information technology and telecommunications, manufacturing, government, and others.
Note that the outlook for this market is being affected by rapid changes in trade relations and tariffs globally. The report will be updated prior to delivery to reflect the latest status, including revised forecasts and quantified impact analysis. The report's Recommendations and Conclusions sections will be updated to give strategies for entities dealing with the fast-moving international environment.
The rapid escalation of U.S. tariffs and the resulting trade tensions in spring 2025 are significantly impacting the information technology sector, particularly in hardware manufacturing, data infrastructure, and software deployment. Higher duties on imported semiconductors, circuit boards, and networking equipment have raised production and operational costs for tech firms, cloud service providers, and data centers. Companies relying on globally sourced components for laptops, servers, and consumer electronics are facing longer lead times and increased pricing pressures. In parallel, tariffs on specialized software tools and retaliatory measures from key international markets have disrupted global IT supply chains and reduced overseas demand for U.S.-developed technologies. To navigate these challenges, the sector is accelerating investments in domestic chip fabrication, diversifying supplier bases, and adopting AI-driven automation to enhance operational resilience and cost efficiency.
The cloud workflow market research report is one of a series of new reports from The Business Research Company that provides cloud workflow market statistics, including cloud workflow industry global market size, regional shares, competitors with a cloud workflow market share, detailed cloud workflow market segments, market trends and opportunities, and any further data you may need to thrive in the cloud workflow industry. This cloud workflow market research report delivers a complete perspective of everything you need, with an in-depth analysis of the current and future scenario of the industry.
The cloud workflow market size has grown rapidly in recent years. It will grow from $7.04 billion in 2024 to $8.24 billion in 2025 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17.0%. The growth in the historic period can be attributed to enterprise digital transformation mandates, the shift from paper-based to electronic workflows, the globalization of operations and supply chains, the expansion of outsourcing and shared services, and increasing compliance and audit trail requirements.
The cloud workflow market size is expected to see rapid growth in the next few years. It will grow to $15.24 billion in 2029 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 16.6%. The growth in the forecast period can be attributed to increasing regulatory scrutiny across industries, rising pressure for faster time to market, growing focus on cost containment and productivity, increasing demand for end-to-end process visibility, and rising customer experience expectations. Key trends in the forecast period include artificial intelligence assisted workflow orchestration and decision support, machine learning based process mining and task mining innovation, low code and no code workflow application builder advancements, application programming interface first integration and event driven orchestration development, and robotic process automation convergence with business process management suites.
The growing adoption of remote work is expected to propel the growth of the cloud workflow market going forward. Remote work refers to a working arrangement where employees perform their job outside a traditional office using digital tools to communicate and collaborate. The rise in the adoption of remote work is driven by increasing digitalization, demand for flexible work arrangements, advancements in communication technologies, cost savings for organizations, and the need to maintain business continuity. Cloud workflow helps address the adoption of remote work by enhancing collaboration, task management, process automation, real-time communication, and access to centralized data from any location. For instance, in April 2025, the Backlinko, a US-based company specializing in search engine optimization (SEO) training and digital marketing education, reported that 22.8% of US employees worked remotely at least partially, which accounts for 36.07 million people. Therefore, the growing adoption of remote work is driving the growth of the cloud workflow market.
Key companies operating in the cloud workflow market are focusing on developing artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted workflow diagnostics and remediation to accelerate error resolution, boost uptime, and reduce operator effort. Artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted workflow diagnostics uses generative artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze execution traces, logs, and context from orchestration runs, explain root causes, and suggest fixes directly inside the workflow console. For instance, in October 2025, Amazon Web Services, a US-based cloud computing services provider, launched Diagnose with Amazon Q for Amazon Web Services Step Functions. The new feature brings built-in intelligent error analysis to the Step Functions console, allowing teams to identify and fix workflow problems more efficiently. It shortens resolution time by pinpointing potential causes and offering actionable recommendations. This capability also improves reliability and lowers support demands by enabling developers to troubleshoot distributed workflows without leaving the console.
In October 2025, HashStudioz Technologies Pvt. Ltd., an India-based provider of cloud solutions, acquired Maxify Digital for an undisclosed amount. With this acquisition, HashStudioz aims to enhance its cloud workflow and Salesforce capabilities, expand its technological offerings, and strengthen its presence in digital transformation services across various sectors. Maxify Digital is an India-based provider of cloud workflow solutions.
Major players in the cloud workflow market are Google LLC, Microsoft Corporation, Amazon Web Services Inc., IBM Corporation, Oracle Corporation, SAP SE, Salesforce Inc., Ricoh Company Ltd., ServiceNow Inc., Workday Inc., Atlassian Corporation Plc, Zoho Corporation Pvt. Ltd., Pegasystems Inc., Box Inc., Monday.com Ltd., Asana Inc., Appian Corporation, Workato Inc., Kissflow Inc., and Next Matter GmbH.
North America was the largest region in the cloud workflow market in 2024. Asia-Pacific is expected to be the fastest-growing region in the forecast period. The regions covered in cloud workflow report are Asia-Pacific, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, South America, Middle East and Africa.
The countries covered in the cloud workflow market report are Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Russia, South Korea, UK, USA, Canada, Italy, Spain.
The cloud workflow market includes revenues earned by entities by providing services such as workflow design and implementation, workflow orchestration and automation, integration and connector development, managed workflow operations, and training and support. The market value includes the value of related goods sold by the service provider or included within the service offering. Only goods and services traded between entities or sold to end consumers are included.
The market value is defined as the revenues that enterprises gain from the sale of goods and/or services within the specified market and geography through sales, grants, or donations in terms of the currency (in USD unless otherwise specified).
The revenues for a specified geography are consumption values that are revenues generated by organizations in the specified geography within the market, irrespective of where they are produced. It does not include revenues from resales along the supply chain, either further along the supply chain or as part of other products.
Cloud Workflow Global Market Report 2025 from The Business Research Company provides strategists, marketers and senior management with the critical information they need to assess the market.
This report focuses on cloud workflow market which is experiencing strong growth. The report gives a guide to the trends which will be shaping the market over the next ten years and beyond.
Where is the largest and fastest growing market for cloud workflow ? How does the market relate to the overall economy, demography and other similar markets? What forces will shape the market going forward, including technological disruption, regulatory shifts, and changing consumer preferences? The cloud workflow market global report from the Business Research Company answers all these questions and many more.
The report covers market characteristics, size and growth, segmentation, regional and country breakdowns, competitive landscape, market shares, trends and strategies for this market. It traces the market's historic and forecast market growth by geography.
The forecasts are made after considering the major factors currently impacting the market. These include the technological advancements such as AI and automation, Russia-Ukraine war, trade tariffs (government-imposed import/export duties), elevated inflation and interest rates.