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Top 15 Digital Transformation Trends in 2025
Are you eager to explore the top digital transformation trends for 2025? Do you want to understand how macroeconomic factors may affect digital transformation initiatives? Are you looking to understand how market consolidation might drive architectural changes and business processes? Are you looking to plan your career in a specific enterprise software ecosystem? If so, you have come to the right place.
This concise research note produced independently and without vendors’ influence, spans over eight pages. Offering brief insights into digital transformation trends, it details how they might impact enterprise software ecosystems. It talks about both macro factors such as economic growth, inflationary conditions, and geopolitical tensions. Then, It provides insights into micro factors such as mergers and acquisitions — or factors such as product and corporate strategy of different enterprise software vendors.
To create this report, we actively monitor enterprise software companies impacting digital transformation trends through a variety of sources. These sources include surveys, interviews, and panel discussions. They also include proprietary databases, customer inquiries, industry reports, vendor briefings, and user forums. This guide is specifically designed for digital transformation executives building a case for transformation in their organizations — or enterprise software product executives planning their R&D spend. This guide will also be helpful for digital transformation practitioners when planning their careers.
Questions this report will answer:
How will AI-augmented agents (among key digital transformation trends) integrated into enterprise software help justify prices enterprise software vendors?
What are the main advantages and challenges of using AI agents for tasks like customer service?
How will digital transformation trends such as AI governance platforms evolve to address emerging regulatory challenges in AI use cases?
How could the rise of new multi-modal search engines powered by ChatGPT disrupt Google’s market dominance?
What changes can businesses expect in their content optimization strategies with the increasing use of generative AI in search engines?
How will continued consolidation in the enterprise software industry affect pricing and product features for customers?
In what ways could M&A activity accelerate in 2025, and how might this influence digital transformation initiatives?
How will businesses address the need to balance immediate short-term investments with long-term strategies?
What new skills will become essential as digital transformation trends such as AI governance platforms and AI agents reshape traditional business processes?
How might geopolitical tensions in 2025 impact global supply chains and the regulatory landscape for businesses?
What role will AI play in identifying and exploiting vulnerabilities in the software supply chain?
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Case Study
A brief walkthrough of a recent customer who went through the process of developing the strategy to transform their current eCommerce operations to include a buy-online-and-pick-up-in-store and buy-in-store-ship-to-home business model.
Problem
A leading fashion retailer with more than 30 stores throughout the United States was struggling with the customer experience and accommodation of business models such as buy-online-pick-up-in-store due to disconnected eCommerce and fulfillment systems. They needed omnichannel experience that could transform their experience and help them compete with their larger peers.
Solution
They hired ElevatIQ to assess their as-is and to-be state and come up with the strategy to enable the needed experience. Through the series of workshops and secondary research of their data, ElevatIQ formulated a strategy with the changes in business processes, information architecture, and systems.
Outcome
The strategy resulted in a clear alignment of their executive teams with a refined understanding of their business processes and operations. The strategy also resulted in a clear understanding of the investments and solutions required to implement the strategy.
