Strategic Intelligence: Cloud Computing in Consumer

Strategic Intelligence: Cloud Computing in Consumer

Summary

This report delves into how cloud computing can be used to enhance operations within the consumer goods, foodservice, and packaging industries. The Cloud computing stack covers several different technologies, ranging from physical items like hardware and storage devices to cloud-related services like cloud infrastructure. This report outlines how cloud computing can be implemented by companies within the consumer sector to streamline operations, reduce costs, and improve customer relations.

Cloud computing refers to computing delivered as an online service. It encompasses the provision of IT infrastructure, operating software, middleware, and applications hosted within a data center and accessed by the end-user via the internet. At its most basic, it can mean just using a remote server. At its most advanced, it includes everything needed to run software applications, like data centers, servers, and security systems. Over the past 15 years, cloud computing has been replacing the traditional IT stack. The consumer sector can replace its traditional IT infrastructure with cloud computing to help companies organize and analyze data, leading to innovative opportunities such as adopting generative AI (GenAI).

Scope

  • According to GlobalData, the consumer goods sector's spending on cloud computing will reach $28.2 billion in 2028, having grown at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11% between 2023 and 2028.
  • GlobalData's Tech Sentiment Polls Q1 2025 report highlights that cloud computing ranks just behind cybersecurity as a technology currently disrupting industries.
  • As stated in the AWS sustainability report released in 2024, AWS infrastructure is roughly 3.6 times more energy efficient than the median of the US-based data centers surveyed, and nearly five times more efficient than the average enterprise data centers in Europe, due to a more efficient server population and higher server utilization.
  • According to Accenture, clients transitioning to cloud-based infrastructure see a 30% to 40% reduction in total cost of ownership.
Reasons to Buy
  • This report will enable you to understand how cloud computing affects the consumer goods, foodservice, and packaging sectors. The report will facilitate actionable insights, which can help you adapt to this theme, implementing new strategies to hold a competitive edge within the industry.
  • The report will assist you in recognizing some of the prominent participants in the cloud computing theme of the consumer industry, highlight essential trends that are integrated, and offer a foundation for benchmarking.


Executive Summary
Players
Value Chain
The cloud computing stack
Software as a service (SaaS)
Platform as a service (PaaS)
Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
Cloud professional services
The Impact of Cloud Computing on Consumer
How cloud computing helps tackle the challenge of digitalization
How cloud computing helps tackle the challenge of ESG
How cloud computing helps tackle the challenge of supply chain management
How cloud computing helps tackle the challenge of changing consumer preferences
How cloud computing helps tackle the challenge of high inflation
Case Studies
Nestlé migrates to the cloud to optimize its customer and employee experience
PepsiCo aims to improve analytics by integrating cloud-based tools
Estée Lauder improves product innovation using AI tools
The Cloud Computing Timeline
Companies
Leading cloud computing adopters in consumer
Specialist cloud computing vendors in consumer
Sector Scorecard
Consumer goods sector scorecard
Who's who
Thematic screen
Valuation screen
Risk screen
Foodservice sector scorecard
Who's who
Thematic screen
Valuation screen
Risk screen
Packaging sector scorecard
Who's who
Thematic screen
Valuation screen
Risk screen
Glossary
Further Reading
GlobalData reports
Our Thematic Research Methodology
About GlobalData
Contact Us
List of Tables
Table 1: Leading cloud computing adopters in consumer
Table 2: Specialist cloud computing vendors in consumer
Table 3: Glossary
Table 4: GlobalData reports
List of Figures
Figure 1: Key players in the cloud computing theme
Figure 2: The cloud computing value chain
Figure 3: Thematic investment matrix
Figure 4: Over half of poll respondents said cloud computing was already disrupting their industry in Q1 2025
Figure 5: The cloud computing story
Figure 6: Who does what in the consumer goods space?
Figure 7: Thematic screen - Consumer goods sector scorecard
Figure 8: Valuation screen - Consumer goods sector scorecard
Figure 9: Risk screen - Consumer goods sector scorecard
Figure 10: Who does what in the foodservice space?
Figure 11: Thematic screen - Foodservice sector scorecard
Figure 12: Valuation screen - Foodservice sector scorecard
Figure 13: Risk screen - Foodservice sector scorecard
Figure 14: Who does what in the packaging space?
Figure 15: Thematic screen - Packaging sector scorecard
Figure 16: Valuation screen - Packaging sector scorecard
Figure 17: Risk screen - Packaging sector scorecard
Figure 18: Our five-step approach for generating a sector scorecard

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