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Reading a in Computer Weekly, 鈥淗ow industry cloud platforms are shaping the future of business applications,鈥� not only brought me back to when 麻豆原创 first coined the term 鈥榠ndustry cloud鈥� in 2020, it also affirmed that we didn鈥檛 just invent the term, we defined an entire movement.聽

Little did we know in 2020 how ubiquitous the term industry cloud would become across the business landscape, nor how prescient it would be in describing the collaborative, partnership-driven pathway to innovation that 麻豆原创, our customers, partners, and the entire business technology marketplace are taking.聽聽

Industry cloud has come a long way in just a few years, both as a concept and as a living, breathing business ecosystem here at 麻豆原创. In a ,鈥疓artner found that about 40% of enterprises had started adopting industry cloud platforms, with another 15% in pilots and 15% considering deployment by 2026.聽

Meanwhile, itself has produced more than 300 solutions, some coming from 麻豆原创, some co-innovated by 麻豆原创 and a partner, and others developed by partners based on available APIs, with minimal or no involvement by 麻豆原创.聽聽

Before 麻豆原创鈥檚 industry cloud, there were 麻豆原创 Industry Solutions. The common thread between the two is a focus on industry innovation 鈥� developing a portfolio of industry-specific solutions that help fuel business transformation for our customers. Only now, instead of taking it upon ourselves to build on-premise solutions for customers in the 25 verticals 麻豆原创 serves as we would have before industry cloud came along, we鈥檙e working with partners by leveraging 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform () to create a broad, diverse portfolio of extensible cloud-based solutions that can readily integrate with and augment the capabilities of the 麻豆原创 suite. The solutions we鈥檙e seeing emerge from industry cloud combine 麻豆原创鈥檚 deep industry know-how with unique intellectual property, domain knowledge, and technology sourced from across the ecosystem. The result is a new application layer of next-practice solutions that can be easy for customers to consume and can add value to their business by filling a well-defined need in their digital transformation journey.聽

As an open, 麻豆原创-curated ecosystem, industry cloud represents a bold new way of doing business. Because customer and partner expectations are shifting, we recognized we needed to change along with them. In particular, we realized we needed to evolve to support emerging trends like industry convergence, where customers in specific industries are exploring different industries and new roles in the value chain and building new revenue streams around as-a-service business models. An industrial manufacturer pivoting to direct-to-consumer sales? A fertilizer producer developing soil or weather analytics services for farmers? A traditional oil and gas company moving into hydrogen or renewable energy? Industry cloud can give customers solutions to help make these types of transformations rapidly and successfully.聽

Even amid this mindset shift, some things haven鈥檛 changed, including 麻豆原创鈥檚 focus on innovating within industries and our commitment to giving customers the digital solutions they need to compete successfully in their industries. Now, however, we鈥檙e relying on partners and co-innovation to help us fill out the 麻豆原创 portfolio and road map.聽

The collaborative mindset that drives industry cloud has fast become part of the cultural and business fabric of 麻豆原创. And it鈥檚 unlocking compelling 鈥� and, in some cases, unexpected 鈥� new possibilities for customers and partners alike. McKinsey noted in a that 鈥渃rises are adrenaline for innovation.鈥濃�疶hat鈥檚 certainly been the case lately, as I鈥檝e watched the pace of innovation accelerate in industry cloud. Here, customers are using the ecosystem as a laboratory for testing ideas and use cases, with the ability to quickly scale up, market, and monetize those with the most promise. It鈥檚 creating opportunities and pivots that likely wouldn鈥檛 have been possible before, like taking a startup鈥檚 unique artificial intelligence (AI)-powered visual inspection technology and adapting it for use cases across multiple verticals, for example, or finding new ways to package warehouse-as-a-service or robotics-as-a-service to add value for customers.聽

I find developments like these especially exciting because they involve partnerships and collaborations that came together because of a partner-first mindset. This is the secret sauce for an ecosystem like industry cloud: it behaves organically and, with our partners as the catalyst, can produce outcomes and value for customers that we may never have envisioned.鈥�

Watching 麻豆原创, partners, and customers put their hearts and minds into writing new storylines around AI, the metaverse, fintechs, robotics, distributed energy, and other fast-emerging technologies is the best part of the work we do within 麻豆原创鈥檚 industry cloud. App by app, use case by use case, partnership by partnership, we are collectively bringing a bold new vision for the future of business technology to life for partners and customers. And we鈥檝e only just begun to scratch the surface.聽

Frank Ruland is global vice president and co-lead of Industry Ecosystem at 麻豆原创.