However, the strategic importance of the cloud for product development is still barely understood. 

This four-page white paper explores the link between the cloud and an agile product development environment, including: 

• Reasons businesses are turning to the cloud for product development
• Metrics that can be used to understand business agility for product development
• A case study illustrating how the cloud enables agile product development
• The obstacles that need to be overcome to implement product development in the cloud