Ten years ago, the typical sales model was that software vendors sold products that customers purchased and deployed in their on-premises data centers to make them available for internal and external users. Similarly, business-to-consumer (B2C) companies, such as Yahoo, hosted the software in their data centers and made it available to users.  \r\n Today, nearly 90% of enterprise software is provided either as software as a service (SaaS) or platform as a service ( PaaS ) running in the clouds. The old model is nearly extinct. \r\n Three drivers of change: from edge to cloud \r\n We are at an inflection point in the industry. In the next few years, enterprise software will be served from the edge, with the cloud used primarily for batch processing.…