Disruptive Technologies in the Commodity Markets

As the results of our survey indicate, there continues to be significant interest and investment in many new and emerging disruptive technologies. Though we have included Cloud and SaaS in our survey, the reality is that cloud-delivered software has now reached the point that it could be considered mainstream and well past peak adoption.

Few companies operating today have not adopted and/or are using at least one or more cloud/SaaS applications - either by choice or by being essentially “forced to” to operate effectively with industry partners or service providers. Other of the examined technologies, such as Blockchain, have been available to industry participants for several years, but their take-up as enablers of applications and processes in everyday use by most industry participants have clearly lagged the expectations that were held when they were