India, Sept. 8 -- Vertical SaaS is in a new chapter. With industry-centered software already accounting for more than 30% of the enterprise cloud market and growing more than double that of horizontal platforms, the next wave - "Vertical SaaS 2.0" - is now centered on micro-verticalisation, AI-native architecture, and real-time. At the leading edge of this transition is Infor, which is building cloud applications not just for industries such as manufacturing or healthcare, but for sub-sectors like dairy producers or specialty chemical plants.

"We are moving now into the realm of the micro-vertical," says Phil Lewis, SVP at Infor, "where systems are built with a purpose to serve the unique intricacies that sit within the sectors themselve...