When you hear the words “business software” or “reporting,” your mind may be drawn to binders stuffed with charts and spreadsheets or conference rooms crammed with executives perusing slides. But these images are missing something vital: the ability to bring value to businesses.

New technologies are working with each other to revolutionize the way businesses report and use software. Machine learning and cognitive tools can do a lot of the grunt work that allows humans to perform more engaging, valuable work.

The how long does a merger take winners of the new period are those who redefine what is meant by an enterprise that is product-driven in the fullest sense and use their products to acquire customers, keep them, and expand. To do so, they’ll need to incorporate PLG principles into the way they develop, design and market their products.