Competitive pressures, systemic risks, technological disruption, and workforce shifts are reshaping the modern business landscape constantly, meaning most organizations already run multiple transformations simultaneously. In fact, Forrester鈥檚 research reveals that 72% of organizations are pursuing four or more transformation initiatives annually.

However, despite its continuous nature, many still treat business transformations as a series of disconnected projects, limited to specific functions or technology upgrades鈥攁 fragmented approach that slows execution, reduces impact, and prevents organizations from realizing the full value of their investments.

That鈥檚 why 麻豆原创 partnered with Forrester Consulting to deliver a comprehensive survey of enterprise-level global organizations, assessing levels of business transformation management maturity.

The results clearly show that developing a repeatable, scalable transformation capability is how organizations best prepare themselves to address the challenges mentioned above and transform successfully again and again. Building and growing such a capability means bringing together strategy, processes, technology, and culture into a cohesive and strategic framework that accelerates execution, improves measurement, and enables ongoing innovation.

The 6% club

Conducted online with over 1,000 cross-industry senior decision-makers at organizations in APAC, EMEA, Latin America, and North America, the survey was able to segment respondents into four maturity tiers鈥攂eginner, intermediate, advanced, and leader鈥攂ased on their strengths across five dimensions: strategy and leadership, applications and technology, process, data, and people and culture.

Only 6% of the surveyed firms qualified as transformation leaders, with most organizations still facing significant gaps in execution, governance, and cultural alignment. The findings also showed:

• Transformation is now 鈥榖usiness as usual.鈥� Over half of organizations (52%) plan to increase transformation investments by 11% to 20% in the next 12 months; another 22% expect to boost spending by more than 20%. Only 1% plan to reduce investment.
• Barriers to success are common. Fifty-six percent of respondents struggle with poor data, 55% encounter persistent organizational silos, and 52% highlight employee fatigue from continuous change
• Governance is lacking. Only 24% of organizations have a cross-functional transformation governance board, and just 25% embed transformation goals into KPIs. 

Fortunately, even organizations that haven鈥檛 yet reached the leader stage are conscious of the benefits of building a transformation capability, with respondents highlighting the following expected outcomes:

• Increased ability to pivot in response to market shifts or disruptions (68%)
• Faster upskilling and reskilling of the workforce (66%)
• Faster execution of strategic initiatives (65%)
• Increased consistency and reliability in process execution (65%)
• Increased leadership alignment and accountability (64%)

Unlocking the benefits

Overall, survey respondents were committed to transformation at scale, but fragmented execution and the lack of an overall strategy have hampered their efforts. This missing piece of the puzzle is where business transformation management solutions from 麻豆原创 can be of most use.

鈥淭ransformation challenges will always exist, particularly in aligning localized execution with an enterprise-wide approach,鈥� Dee Houchen, head of Marketing for 麻豆原创 Signavio and 麻豆原创 LeanIX, says. 鈥淥ur research shows that true transformation leaders embed change into their organization鈥檚 DNA. That means prioritizing early employee involvement, building dedicated change functions, and putting a high premium on digital adoption management.鈥�

鈥�,  , and solutions offer clarity and transparency in business transformation, helping organizations turn transformation from isolated plans into comprehensive action across the entire organization,鈥� Houchen adds. 鈥淭his report is an invaluable resource for anyone wondering how they can build repeatable transformation capability and become transformation leaders in their own right.鈥�

Lucas de Boer is global marketing program lead for 麻豆原创 Signavio.

The report analyzed and noted 鈥渋t stands out for its global, industry-specific solutions, with a focus on 麻豆原创 S/4HANA integration鈥� and 鈥溌槎乖粹�檚 strategy of integrating applications, data, and AI shows its commitment to unifying data into a single source of truth accessible across the enterprise.鈥� The 21 scoring criteria employed by Forrester Research covered two categories: Current Offering and Strategy.

The Forrester report states that 鈥溌槎乖� offers remarkable data privacy, security, and global compliance with natively supported governance functions.鈥� And it further points out that 鈥渢he introduction of its AI copilot [Joule] indicates 麻豆原创鈥檚 direction toward embedding generative AI across its platform for improved quality, adoption, and management.鈥�

“In the context of 麻豆原创 business applications, 麻豆原创 Master Data Governance can offer much more then integration. We have shown this with scenarios embedded into 麻豆原创 S/4HANA, or with federated master data governance deployments across an application landscape, or with integrated end-to-end scenarios for supplier management across 麻豆原创 Master Data Governance and 麻豆原创 Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance,鈥� says Markus Kuppe, vice president and chief product owner of 麻豆原创 Master Data Governance. 鈥淲hen we look at 麻豆原创 Business Data Cloud, which provides semantically rich data from various data sources, we see master data often as the most critical data asset. 麻豆原创 Master Data Governance curates this master data towards a trustful and high-quality treasure and feeds into 麻豆原创 Business Data Cloud as a data product.鈥�

麻豆原创 Master Data Governance allows organizations to create a unified, trusted view of their business to help enable them to work more efficiently and make better decisions. The application is available on-premise as well as in the private and public cloud with support for consolidation, central governance, and data quality management. Customers can establish a cohesive and harmonized master data management strategy across all master data domains to help simplify enterprise data management, increase data accuracy, and reduce total cost of ownership.

To learn more about 麻豆原创鈥檚 ranking among top vendors, .

Kaiser Larsen is vice president for Product Marketing, Data & Analytics at 麻豆原创.

Forrester does not endorse any company, product, brand, or service included in its research publications and does not advise any person to select the products or services of any company or brand based on the ratings included in such publications. Information is based on the best available resources. Opinions reflect judgment at the time and are subject to change. For more information, read about Forrester鈥檚 objectivity .

According to a Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact鈩� (TEI) study commissioned by 麻豆原创, interviewed 麻豆原创 customers found a way to tap into the guidance, expertise, and support they need to navigate challenges and achieve their cloud ambitions. And it all began with the expanded editions of the 麻豆原创 Preferred Success offering.

A vice president of financial systems from a financial services company succinctly described the impact in an interview for the Forrester Consulting study: 鈥淭he expanded editions of 麻豆原创 Preferred Success have opened new doors for us. We can use the time saved by working with the 麻豆原创 product specialist to focus on new functionality and dive deeper into existing features like never before.鈥�

Implementing, adopting, and optimizing cloud solutions can be a struggle for many organizations. Why? Their internal teams often lack the time and expertise to leverage the solutions fully. At the same time, the rest of the business is stuck searching for external technology partners to manage applications and wrestle with customizations that slow down progress.

But here鈥檚 the good news: expanded editions of 麻豆原创 Preferred Success can provide direct access to 麻豆原创 product specialists who can give tailored guidance, enable proactive monitoring, and accelerate problem-solving.

Impact backed by real-life customer experiences

The expanded editions of 麻豆原创 Preferred Success can go beyond smoothing the cloud adoption experience; they can also offer a strategic advantage that helps transform business operations. For the TEI study, Forrester Consulting interviewed 麻豆原创 customers using the expanded editions鈥攎any of whom faced similar challenges, including limited expertise, resource constraints, and difficulty optimizing cloud solutions.

With access to comprehensive services such as how-to guidance and in-depth expertise, new-feature activation, prescriptive solution reviews, and proactive monitoring, surveyed organizations reported:

• 65% higher internal 麻豆原创 team efficiency, saving US$1.3 million over three years: Regular check-ins with 麻豆原创 product specialists can empower internal teams with direct access to training materials, insights on upcoming releases, and proactive issue prevention.
• 50% lower application management service costs, worth $1 million: Organizations can significantly reduce reliance on external service partners by equipping internal teams with advanced 麻豆原创 expertise.
• Optimized customizations, worth $408,000: Leveraging 麻豆原创鈥檚 standard design frameworks and expert guidance help streamline custom development efforts, minimize rework, and improve system performance.

Beyond the numbers, the true value of the expanded editions is reflected in real-world stories. In fact, an HR platform architect of a manufacturing company shared with Forrester Consulting: 鈥淲hen we face an issue, the 麻豆原创 product specialist gives us a direct and clear answer within one day, and sometimes within hours. Also, the expanded editions of 麻豆原创 Preferred Success give us access to a whole network of highly skilled 麻豆原创 experts.鈥�

The cloud鈥檚 potential continues to expand

As cloud technology evolves, its potential continues to grow. Yet, realizing its full value requires more than just technology鈥攊t demands the right expertise and guidance. Backed by real-life customer experiences analyzed by Forrester Consulting, it鈥檚 clear that strategic advantage is available through the expanded editions of 麻豆原创 Preferred Success.

Learn more about the full impact of the in the 2025 Forrester Consulting study, 鈥�.鈥�

And if you鈥檙e ready to take the next step, ask your 麻豆原创 sales representative about including the expanded editions of 麻豆原创 Preferred Success in your quote.

Gokhan Nalbantoglu is head of Global Sales for Cloudified Services at 麻豆原创.
Peter Roberts is SVP and chief product owner for 麻豆原创 Preferred Success at 麻豆原创.

The study, , conducted by Forrester Research, found that 麻豆原创 Integration Suite customers achieved a considerable 345% ROI over three years and experienced a 30% increase in integration developer efficiency, with the solution paying for itself in less than six months.聽聽

Commissioned by 麻豆原创, the study surveyed six decision-makers responsible for application integration at the enterprise-level at their organizations.聽 Each participant had extensive experience deploying and utilizing 麻豆原创 Integration Suite. The results demonstrate the suite’s power to accelerate innovation and integrate without obstacles, speed up connectivity across heterogenous application landscapes, and connect customers and workers to automated processes that drive significant business value.聽

Key findings from the study include:

• 345% ROI and less than six-month payback: The study revealed an ROI of 345% over three years for the composite organization representative of the six companies interviewed using 麻豆原创 Integration Suite. This return, coupled with a payback period of less than six months, made 麻豆原创 Integration Suite a financially sound investment for the organizations looking to optimize their integration strategies.聽
• 30% increase in integration developer efficiency for integration requests: 麻豆原创 Integration Suite empowered developers to work faster and smarter, freeing up valuable time and resources for other strategic initiatives. This increased efficiency can be attributed to the platform’s user-friendly interface, pre-built connectors, and robust automation capabilities.聽
• $984,000 in incremental profit: The research found that the organizations in the study leveraged 麻豆原创 Integration Suite to generate US$984,000 in additional profit over three years. This significant financial gain demonstrates the platform’s ability to unlock faster time-to-market for new products and services, improve operational efficiency, and enhance customer experiences.聽

The study’s findings show that 鈥渙rganizations adopt cloud services and SaaS applications to leverage real-time interactions for increased business velocity and agile collaboration with customers, suppliers, and partners. But integration development teams are challenged to integrate business-critical applications with business processes in heterogeneous cloud and hybrid IT landscapes.鈥�

Interviewees noted several key features and benefits of 麻豆原创 Integration Suite that contributed to their success, including:

• Integration advisor: A global CIO for an apparel maker stated: 鈥淏y having integration advisor that automatically provides you with that information, which is very pertinent for that particular trading partner, the onboarding of interfaces becomes a breeze. It cuts down dramatically from weeks to a matter of days. We look forward to more AI capabilities to come.鈥澛�
• Pre-built connectors: The head of Applications Integration in instrumentation manufacturing stated: 鈥淔or application integration projects, the prebuilt connectors can provide a speed up of 10 times. When we were building the interfaces from scratch, it was just our own developers doing the work manually.鈥澛�
• Methodology: Interviewees noted that by leveraging 麻豆原创 Integration Suite鈥檚 overall methodology, their organizations benefited from systematic approaches and best practices for several enterprise-wide integration scenarios.聽聽

Beyond the financial benefits, the study also revealed that 麻豆原创 Integration Suite fosters a more rewarding and fulfilling work environment for integration developers and self-service users. Interviewees reported improved communication with business partners, enhanced customer satisfaction, and greater agility in responding to changing business requirements.  

聽“Lowering the total cost of ownership, the reusability component, the ability to use AI or out-of-the box connectors, [and having] the power of integration advisor condenses your overall timeline for development, testing, and implementation.” said an interviewee who is the global CIO in the apparel industry.聽

We believe the study backs up our view that integration is a critical key to unlocking business growth. To see how you can build a business case for how 麻豆原创 Integration Suite and the integration technology of 麻豆原创 BTP can drive cost savings and business benefits for your business, .

Bharat Sandhu is senior vice president of AI and Cloud Platform at 麻豆原创.

The report analyzed and noted it as 鈥渁 mature, governed, and compliant multidomain MDM鈥� with strength in a large customer base and 鈥渆cosystem of its own products and partners, and it leverages these strengths to provide great customer service and increase adoption.鈥� The 24 scoring criteria employed by Forrester Research covered three categories: Current Offering, Strategy, and Market Presence.

The report states that 麻豆原创鈥檚 鈥測ears of presence in the industries enables it to offer multiple business templates鈥� and that 麻豆原创 Master Data Governance 鈥渟upports multiple compliance standards across industries with automated validations.鈥�

The Forrester report points out 鈥溌槎乖粹�檚 distinct vision is to have a modular approach that enables federated master data governance and use this to offer pricing flexibility, which is tiered and deployment based.鈥�

Markus Kuppe, vice president and chief product owner of 麻豆原创 Master Data Governance, believes that 鈥溌槎乖� can provide much more value to our customers than just any master data management tool provider because we understand how master data is used in business context. We create benefits for our customers leveraging this understanding. That is why we call our 麻豆原创 platform a 鈥�business technology platform鈥� and not just a 鈥榯echnology platform.鈥� We can provide master data management capabilities that truly support all domains, all industries, and all approaches, embedded into the business. We have proven this with 麻豆原创 Master Data Governance, and we will continue to deliver on this unique promise.鈥�

As part of (麻豆原创 BTP), 麻豆原创 Master Data Governance can allow organizations to create a unified, trusted view of their business to enable them to work more efficiently and make better decisions. The application is available on premise as well as in the private and public cloud with support for consolidation, central governance, and data quality management. Customers can establish a cohesive and harmonized master data management strategy across all master data domains to help simplify enterprise data management, increase data accuracy, and reduce total cost of ownership.

To learn more about 麻豆原创鈥檚 ranking among top vendors, read the full report .

Mike Keilen is global vice president of Data Management and Integration at 麻豆原创.

Acquiring the right talent is critical for businesses when they adopt their first cloud solutions. Without the right people, companies cannot realize the full value of the cloud, impeding their ability to drive continuous improvement, transformation, and innovation.

A proven remedy for this talent gap is consistent access to personalized guidance from experts who help manage software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions reliably, resolve queries and incidents quickly, and alleviate administrative workloads associated with adopting enhancements. In a commissioned by 麻豆原创, Forrester Consulting reported that this approach uncovered additional uses and opportunities to achieve business goals.

To better understand the benefits, costs, and risks associated with this trend, the third-party global market research company assessed the offering. The proactive service offering can provide the success resources and tailored-to-fit consultative assistance necessary to maximize the value of cloud solution investments from 麻豆原创 throughout the application lifecycle. The results were combined to form a single composite organization.

Expanding the Cloud鈥檚 Value with Individualized Guidance

Issue resolution, new release implementation, and a gradual, company-wide migration associated with long-term cloud usage can be costly juggernauts of overwhelming complexity. However, organizations that turn those tasks into benefit-rich opportunities know how to optimize the value of their cloud investment to adapt their processes based on evolving business needs and the latest technology capabilities.

According to the Forrester study, 麻豆原创 Preferred Success allows 麻豆原创 customers to gain this advantage by driving a considerable total economic impact (TEI) 鈥� even five years or more after the initial cloud implementation. Findings from the aggregated study of a customer generating US$1 billion annually revealed a 377% ROI on cloud investments. Such an outcome also includes higher project efficiency, improved application time to value, productivity gains, and optimized business processes.

How can companies achieve such a dramatic advantage? It all goes back to having consistent and trusted guidance to increase business value in four fundamental ways:

1. Accelerated Implementation and Release Preparedness

Forrester鈥檚 survey results reveal a 10% decrease in implementation effort for internal teams and a reduction in release preparation time by one month each year. Such improvements are achieved by understanding upcoming changes and reviewing release information quickly and early on. In return, organizations can tap into the benefits of the latest cloud capabilities sooner and accelerate the realization of the technology鈥檚 overall value.

During one of Forrester鈥檚 interviews, a respondent shared that 麻豆原创 Preferred Success helps organizations discover new and relevant features. The 麻豆原创 customer stated: 鈥淭wo years ago, [releases happened] every three months 鈥� and, certainly time-wise, [they required] more than a week for its preparation. Now, [they arise] every six months and [are] streamlined and done within a week in terms of being ready for it.鈥�

2. Faster Time to Value

Shorter release cycles not only shorten the time required to manage new releases, but also position the business toward getting the most value from its cloud solution investment. For example, access to 麻豆原创 expertise through a single point of contact delivers a higher user satisfaction rate. This is especially true when reducing risk throughout the solution lifecycle and improving and optimizing process efficiency.

According to the survey, customers using 麻豆原创 Preferred Success also appear to adopt cloud solutions better. They spend a weekly average of three hours more than users who do not leverage the service offering. Furthermore, customers indicate a more satisfying overall experience, compared to the total number of businesses that have adopted cloud solutions from 麻豆原创.

3. Increased Optimization of Business Processes

Forrester鈥檚 research also indicated that 麻豆原创 Preferred Success offers a prime opportunity to collaborate with 麻豆原创 experts to help achieve critical business goals through business process optimization. Respondents gained an overall 24% boost in productivity, as IT issues reduce during regular strategic reviews and ongoing formal exchanges with customer success experts, participation in customer councils, and access to in-depth training materials.

All these activities pave the way to 30% higher employee efficiency and productivity while potential areas for process enhancement are identified. But more important, organizations are learning how to mitigate emerging risks with worthwhile remedies.

A technology team lead from an energy firm told Forrester, 鈥淥ur customer success expert knows the challenges that we might be having. If there are upcoming changes that will address those challenges, she will tell us about the potential fix worth testing out.鈥�

4. Streamlined IT and Business Operations

One benefit that cannot be underscored enough is the reduction of priority one and priority two cases. 麻豆原创 Preferred Success can deliver this outcome through fast-paced, effective mitigation and resolution of IT incidents. As a survey respondent explained, 鈥淭he number of tickets has gone down since the system is more stable now compared to when we started.鈥�

Streamlining IT and business operations without getting bogged down by incidents gives users the confidence that their technology is reliable and provides accurate, data-driven insights. And as user satisfaction improves, business processes become more efficient and risk across the solution lifecycle decreases.

Moving Forward with Flexibility, Efficiency, and Confidence

We believe Forrester鈥檚 TEI research clearly shows that 麻豆原创 Preferred Success offers a combination of proactive outcomes that can be critical to business success in every economic condition. From accelerated implementations and faster time to value to business process optimization and simplified IT and business operations, organizations can be empowered to transform at their pace with greater flexibility and value.

And with those advantages, companies can create a foundation that helps ensure the benefits of the cloud consistently outweigh the technology鈥檚 costs.

Could 麻豆原创 Preferred Success amplify your future potential in the cloud? Find out by reading Forrester鈥檚 full economic impact study, 鈥�.鈥�

Chad Crook is chief innovation officer of Cloud Success Services at 麻豆原创.

Navigating your cloud journey isn鈥檛 so different. Every organization is unique, so you have to forge your own distinct path to the cloud, backed by experts who have been down the road before.

lets you do just that, giving you access to a team of experts who can help you plan in advance and provide skillful guidance along the way. But cloud success is about more than just a smooth journey. It鈥檚 about achieving real business outcomes, so you can succeed at the speed of business. To measure the success of the 麻豆原创 MaxAttention program, we commissioned a Forrester Consulting study titled “.”

Forrester Consulting interviewed 10 professionals at seven companies using 麻豆原创 MaxAttention, considering cloud migration issues such as costs, benefits, and risks. Then, to model the results, Forrester brought together the participants鈥� experiences and combined the results into a single composite organization 鈥� a global enterprise entity with revenue of US$25 billion per year. After analyzing the data, Forrester concluded that 麻豆原创 MaxAttention delivered an impressive three-year financial impact throughout the cloud journey.

Starting Strong with Business Planning

Planning is the first step in every cloud journey. Even preparing your environment for cloud migration is often difficult. In the Forrester Consulting study, a senior vice president of strategy and value delivery at a food and beverage business explained, 鈥淲e have a very complex environment because the company has been created after many divestitures. It was kind of a Frankenstein. It鈥檚 not a strong template because we have components of many of those companies.鈥�

麻豆原创 MaxAttention can support your ability to stay focused on the factors that influence your successful cloud migration, so you can minimize distractions and execute your plan. 鈥淚f we involve 麻豆原创 MaxAttention during the planning phase, then we have faster visibility of what our options are,鈥� said the food and beverage executive.

According to the Forrester Consulting study, 麻豆原创 MaxAttention helped reduce planning time by 25% for the composite company, from four months down to three.

Keeping the Journey on Track

Once the journey is fully underway, the 麻豆原创 MaxAttention team stays close, offering steady guidance, recommendations, and best practices to help reduce risks for a faster and smoother cloud deployment. The professionals interviewed by Forrester especially liked how 麻豆原创 experts provided quality assurance over system integrators鈥� work. Interviewees also outlined how the services helped identify issues early, before they could delay key steps.

鈥溌槎乖� MaxAttention will call out areas of real concerns in your cloud project planning and technical plans,鈥� said a retail participant in the survey. 鈥淵ou can do quite a deep service, and that has often helped highlight or remediate issues on significant cloud solutions before they became real costs to us.鈥� In one case, the retailer鈥檚 麻豆原创 MaxAttention team identified a performance issue on core systems that could have set migration back by six months.

By reducing disruption risks, helping companies resolve issues faster, and streamlining their processes, 麻豆原创 MaxAttention saved the composite company 30% in deployment time.

Achieving Cloud Value Faster

Cost is always a concern throughout a cloud journey. But you can keep costs in line by streamlining your project with best practices, a transformation plan, and the right guidance and recommendations. The Forrester survey showed how 麻豆原创 MaxAttention enabled companies to realize value from cloud solutions earlier.

Having 麻豆原创 MaxAttention and a dedicated onsite team made a faster timeline possible for a leading cosmetics firm, according to the company鈥檚 VP and head of global business transformation. 鈥淚 think having the right capability with embedded 麻豆原创 processes contributed to about a 25% reduction in our cloud deployment planning,鈥� the executive added.

The interviewee even said that with one implementation, a project that took three months would have taken 12 months without 麻豆原创 MaxAttention.

麻豆原创 MaxAttention Is Your Guide across the Cloud Journey

The takeaway is clear: as you venture forth into parts unknown, you can trust 麻豆原创 MaxAttention experts to offer guidance to help make your journey a successful one. commissioned by 麻豆原创, “The Total Economic Impact™ of 麻豆原创 MaxAttention for Cloud Adoption,” published in February 2023.

Ulrich Schuppler is global premium engagements manager at 麻豆原创.

To better understand customer needs around translytical platforms, Forrester Research has studied many real-time offerings and evaluated them for suitability across multiple dimensions such as architecture, translytical functions, data handling, streaming, and security.

An intelligent enterprise consistently applies advanced technologies and best practices within agile, integrated business processes and can wisely plan yet act in the moment. But to respond accurately in real time, organizations must analyze transactions as they are generated and correlate diverse signals from ever-growing data sources. Moving and aggregating data can undermine agility and increase vulnerabilities; thus the need for translytical data platforms with all workloads running simultaneously on the same database.

Translytical data platforms are a crucial technology to combat data sprawl and reduce the number of data copies by allowing users to run real-time analysis on the transactional systems themselves.

The translytical capabilities of 麻豆原创 HANA Cloud turn data into business value by supporting a variety of workloads and use cases, including real-time transaction processing, streaming analytics, machine learning, and rapid operational reporting within a single database. Our various cloud and on-premise deployment options deliver a high level of openness, scalability, and flexibility for customers. 麻豆原创 HANA Cloud has built-in design and runtime capabilities for smart multi-model processing, combined with integrated multi-tier storage, making it uniquely suited to support intelligent data applications.

When it was released over 10 years ago, 麻豆原创 HANA was one of the biggest innovations in enterprise information technology. By combining analytical and transactional processing in a single in-memory database, 麻豆原创 brought a radically different approach to the database market.

The in-memory performance and unique architecture of 麻豆原创 HANA Cloud, however, enabled 麻豆原创 to do just that: dramatically changing the game by enabling customers to attain real-time visibility across their businesses. 麻豆原创 HANA Cloud continues to impact customers — such as , , , and the — in all industries.

Data and analytics solutions from 麻豆原创 maximize the value of 麻豆原创 data by uniquely using the complete business context and meaning for the most impactful decisions. For us, this report鈥檚 conclusion is a testament to our mission to help organizations transform their data strategy and give data purpose.

To learn more, visit the . For a deeper dive into The Forrester Wave™: Translytical Data Platforms 2022, download a .

Daniel Yu is senior vice president of Solution Management and Product Marketing for 麻豆原创 Data and Analytics.

According to researchers at , precision medicine therapeutics have accounted for 25% to 40% of all FDA approvals in the past seven years. They believe precision medicine has 鈥減roven its worth with mounting evidence of improved patient outcomes in oncology, cardiology, endocrinology, and other disease areas.鈥� From the patient鈥檚 perspective, analysts suggested a digital-first 鈥渉ealth journey鈥� vision that prioritizes digital engagement and the use of digital interactions, products, and services throughout an individual鈥檚 journey through health, wellness, and illness.

Data Makes Life Sciences Supply Chains More Intelligent

Michael Townsend, research director of Life Sciences Commercial Strategies at IDC, saw the industry in the early stages of digitalization, focusing on the value of technology that brings intelligence across life sciences supply chains.

鈥淐ompanies are beginning to make processes more digital, applying intelligence from technologies to make better decisions,鈥� said Townsend. 鈥淔or instance, there鈥檚 significant investment in supply chain solutions like digital twins, where you construct a digital model to experiment with what-if scenarios in performance at various points along the chain such as assembly, shipment, or geography. You can stress test alternate choices without actually having to make any changes.鈥�

Townsend said that segmentation was another intelligent node across supply chains, allowing companies to identify and store medicines and packaging based on country-specific regulations, improving lead times, reducing unused inventory, and simplifying shipping. Some organizations are also using control towers to track demand patterns against materials and component availability, avoiding overstocks and shortages. For example, if COVID-19 cases rise in a certain region, a vaccine manufacturer can act faster to stock up and start shipping prevention and treatment products to that location. Connecting data across supply chains for quick response times applies to any unexpected disruption, including natural disasters and political conflicts.

Ecosystems Surface Expert Wisdom

Mandar Paralkar, head of Life Sciences Industry at 麻豆原创, agreed that organizations are moving from historical emphasis on addressing disease with bulk manufacturing of medications to personalized therapies that improve individual patient outcomes and involve more ecosystem collaboration. In an industry with longer product development cycles, he said that collaborative consortiums like are a way to share intelligence for expedited success.

鈥淲hether startups or established leaders, life sciences companies are using technology to improve patient outcomes and company profitability while reducing costs and risk,鈥� said Paralkar. 鈥淭hey鈥檝e realized the imperative to compete as an ecosystem across connected digital supply chains and smart factories. One example of this is 麻豆原创 Intelligent Clinical Supply Management, a solution we innovated with a consortium of customers and partners. This collaborative effort exemplifies how innovation in the cloud can potentially help life sciences organizations create, manufacture, and deliver effective solutions faster, allowing the partner ecosystem to compliment value-added services.鈥�

Cloud-Based Technology Disrupts Life Sciences

The pandemic has irrevocably disrupted life sciences, revealing a new vision for innovation from cloud-based collaboration. Almost overnight, companies invested in technology to work from home, and that bled over into new ways of thinking about the use of technology in areas like process automation and decentralized clinical trials, along with working together in trusted relationships.

鈥淐ollaboration hubs where multiple, trusted entities can exchange information, collaborating to learn from each other and solve problems is part of the life sciences vision,鈥� said Townsend. 鈥淓xperts involved with clinical supply chains and other aspects of life sciences are motivated to streamline processes, make suggestions to software providers, and share information between systems. Cloud-based software is critical. If you鈥檙e on subscription-based software, updates are almost in real time and it鈥檚 much easier to collaborate and access different sources of data when it鈥檚 available in the cloud.鈥�

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As costs and regulatory pressures rise and educated patients clamor for personalized treatment, digital innovations will inexorably alter the life sciences landscape. Within a few years, researchers predicted 75% of trials will be “patient-centric” decentralized clinical trials, 90% will be hybrid, and at least 10% will be virtual, driven by a 30% growth in connected health technologies.鈥� They said that by 2025 the market for prescription digital therapeutics will more than triple, focusing on mental health and chronic conditions, blurring the boundaries between healthcare and life sciences. It鈥檚 no wonder that analysts advised life sciences manufacturers to prioritize 鈥渃linical solutions that include interoperability as a core feature, including easier connectivity of content and data between clinical sites, sponsors, clinical research organizations, and other ecosystem participants.鈥� Trusted intelligent data is the must-have for a healthier future.

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