Although businesses and economies suffered during the pandemic, SaaS and cloud growth kept rising, driven in part by the shift to remote work.
As Gartner's Brandon Medford put it, organizations were advancing their timelines on digital business initiatives and moving rapidly to the cloud to modernize, improve reliability, support hybrid work, and address the other new realities the pandemic created.
The forecast
To reap the benefits of that growth, businesses need strong data literacy and a data strategy in place, now more than ever.
Adapted from LinkedIn post on September 22, 2021. Figures are Gartner forecasts published in 2021.