From the course: Effectively Leading Digital Transformation

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- [Instructor] Now, here's something that's both a disruptor and an enabler. As more people become able to connect to data and systems remotely via mobile devices, more and more data and services have moved online into the cloud. It feels like everyone is moving data storage to the cloud although that might be just my perception, but the fact is that having your data online goes a long way in making it easier to access it and share it and it changes the traditional hardware heavy approach to technology. There are big savings available to companies who stop buying housing and maintaining physical servers in favor of virtual ones, money that can be spent on better things. Then there's software as a service, SaaS using applications that live online instead of on an individual user computer. Things like Microsoft 365, Google Workplace, and Salesforce are making it easier and cheaper to get employees up and running since…

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