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Global blockchain survey 2018
Breaking blockchain open
How can you activate winning strategies for digital business, cloud, and customer experience in today’s complex, fast-paced environment? For many leaders, the answer will involve using SAP technologies such as SAP S/4HANA®, SAP® C/4HANA, and SAP® Cloud Platform to build the intelligent enterprise. With an intelligent enterprise, you can make the most of your data, building intelligence that, in turn, can drive new efficiencies, improve service, and fuel growth.
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The future is coming fast. How will you make the most of your data? How will you drive new efficiencies, improve service, and fuel growth?
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While not quite ready for primetime yet, blockchain is getting closer to its breakout moment with every passing day.
Deloitte’s new global survey of more than 1,000 global blockchain-savvy executives from seven countries and nine industries is a leading indicator of where blockchain is headed.
Momentum is shifting from a focus on learning and exploring the potential of the technology to identifying and building practical business applications. It just may not be happening when and where we expected.
The global executives with excellent-to-expert knowledge of the technology we surveyed see great value in blockchain’s potential to reinvent processes across the business value chain—and there is interest and investment in a wide range of use cases:
- 74% of all respondents report that their organizations see a “compelling business case” for the use of blockchain—and many of these companies are moving forward with the technology;
- About half of that number (34%) say their company already has some blockchain system in production;
- 41% of respondents say they expect their organizations to deploy a blockchain application within the next 12 months;
- In addition, nearly 40% of respondents reported that their organization will invest $5 million or more in blockchain technology in the coming year.