Frank Della Rosa, Research Vice President of SaaS, Business Platforms, and Industry Cloud at IDC, shares the recent trends of the software industry and how some successful software companies are adapting their strategies to best take advantage and create value.

Topics Include:

• The worldwide forecast for SaaS and cloud software
• Major growth stats for SaaS and Cloud software
• North America growth deep dive
• Top businesses investing in generative AI
• Co-creation with individuals, teams and machines
• Criticality of roadmap for generative AI
• Monetizing generative AI’s impact on demand
• Data’s role in the “Year of the Platform”
• Purpose built platforms
• Enterprise generative AI use cases
• Opportunities and challenges of generative AI
• Informing ISV and SaaS partners on tech buyer focus
• Impact of software architecture from edge infrastructure
• Generative AI and application modernization services
• Enhanced productivity, operational excellence, Hyper personalization
• Domain specific models and vertical SaaS companies
• Where are we going? What’s ahead?
• Reiterating the final points