This IDC InfoBrief analyses the business opportunities, challenges, and priorities influencing global technology leaders that are presently striving to achieve digital maturity and fully exploit the AI momentum. This analysis is based on the latest results from the Enterprise Horizons 2024: IDC Technology Leaders Survey.

The report outlines the vital transition to a digital-first strategy for competitiveness, advising against a uniform approach. It explores the rising trend of cloud migration with a focus on SaaS and IaaS. Highlighting hyper-connectivity, it introduces Enhanced Internet for optimized SD-WAN. SD-WAN is presented as transformative for scalability and user experience. The paper recommends outsourcing SD-WAN to MSPs for end-to-end solutions, highlighting their advanced monitoring.

Over the last few years, enterprise technology leaders worldwide have been dealing with disruptive forces which created a global pressure and urgency to innovate to a degree that we haven’t seen in decades. When the global Covid-19 pandemic hit, businesses responded by investing heavily in emerging technologies to help them deliver new solutions at breakneck speed, with CIOs in the driving seat.

Over the last few years, enterprise technology leaders worldwide have been dealing with disruptive forces which created a global pressure and urgency to innovate to a degree that we haven’t seen in decades. When the global Covid-19 pandemic hit, businesses responded by investing heavily in emerging technologies to help them deliver new solutions at breakneck speed, with CIOs in the driving seat.