But, it’s not just any catalog that can eliminate the barriers to speed and innovation. What’s needed is a cloud-native catalog. For, the only way to achieve maximum agility and flexibility, be always-on, and minimize the operational footprint and cost – each mandatory for an effective and efficient digital transformation – is to be cloud-native.

When the catalog, or any application, is built from the ground-up as cloud-native it comes with a coveted list of enablers, such as on-demand provisioning, resource pooling, self-healing, maximum service software reusability, and access to a broad ecosystem of strategic capabilities, such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) services.

Being cloud-native is also ideal for seamless federation with third party services. Furthermore, it enables teams to achieve continuous delivery and merge with other teams to evolve beyond dev-and-test to become a true DevOps organization.

And, when such a cloud-native catalog is made available on a public cloud, it also addresses the critical need for being accessible from anywhere in the world along with low latency, of course, as well as provides multi-tenancy and tenant access profiling, for enhanced security and content availability.