It is no surprise that manufacturing functions were not the first workloads to move to cloud. The equation for cloud adoption to accelerate comes down to the three Bs: barriers, benefits and business impact. It may have taken longer for those three elements to fall into place for manufacturing applications, but now that they have, we expect cloud to play a much larger role in how manufacturing processes are executed and managed. In fact, if you look at how ERP overall has been aligned with cloud delivery, the broader group of applications that includes HR, finance and various manufacturing functions has been one of the latest groups of applications that customers are transitioning to cloud delivery. As shown in Figure 1, adoption of cloud ERP functions may have been delayed, but recently picked up steam, putting it on par with most other SaaS applications in overall cloud adoption.