Industry Clouds & the Market Shift Happening Under our Noses | Uphoff on Industry

<p>The Big Themes:</p><ul><li>The embrace of vertical approaches is bigger than go-to-market: companies are looking to software not just to address functional problems, but to solve business challenges and transform business models</li><li>Massive internal reorganizations are coming: in addition to new and surprising partnerships like Microsoft and Oracle on multi-cloud, Tony expects both customer and vendors to deeply evolve their structures and operations</li><li>Merger of supply and demand chains is a key example: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/luyi-yang-425a4925/" target="_blank">Professor Luyi Yang</a> in his fireside chat at Cloud Wars Expo talked about "demand distortion events," and the need to knock down silos to better serve today's customers.</li></ul><p>The Big Quote: "Oftentimes, market transitions are sort of so obvious, they're happening before your very eyes, and then you wake up and you go, 'Oh, I should have paid attention to this.'"</p>