This book sheds light on cross-industry and industry-specific trends in today's digital economy. Prepared by a group of international researchers, experts and practitioners under the auspices of SAP's Digital Thought Leadership & Enablement team within SAP's Business Transformation Services (BTS) unit, the book furthermore presents relevant use cases in digital transformation and innovation.

The book argues that breakthrough technologies have matured and hit scale together, enabling five defining trends: hyper-connectivity, supercomputing, cloud computing, a smarter world, and cyber...