Connectivity bottlenecks put $182bn in SME digital transformations at risk Research finds ‘alarming’ gap between the approaches small businesses are taking in their post-pandemic digital transformations Share this item with your network: By Published: 22 Jul 2021 16:09 Of all the approaches that firms have taken to address the new normal of the post-Covid environment, implementing software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) has been among the most popular and effective – but research from Techaisle, commissioned by Big Leaf Networks, has revealed a widening gap between the approaches small businesses are taking in their post-pandemic digital transformations. In Thriving in the ‘next normal’: Digital transformation, post-pandemic business success and the importance of SD-WAN, the global IT market research and analyst organisation surveyed and interviewed IT leaders to understand the challenges that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) face and how they can successfully prepare themselves for the “next normal”.