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Top 10 Application Predictions Through 2025

The future of applications provides organizations with nearly unlimited possibilities to create business value. Yet the ability to think in terms of applications is still difficult for many enterprises.

The transition to application-driven business requires IT leaders to elevate application strategies, advance a new vision of business problem solving, and potentially change the way application leaders work, deliver and modernize.

This collection of the top 10 application-related planning assumptions through 2025 will enable application leaders to plan and deliver successful strategies.

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