Exide has announced that it has used AT&T’s FlexWare platform for a global digital transformation project, which is now live in Exide’s battery manufacturing and recycling plants. This is somewhat outside the wheelhouse for most MNOs, but it shows how the largest operators have been bracing for an uncertain future. Digital transformation is a trend that is being driven largely by the cloud computing environment. Prior to the cloud, it was exceedingly difficult to link together all of the disparate systems that an enterprise would be using. This is no longer the case, and to some extent, the cloud can simply be viewed as a translation layer between these distinct processes. However, this ambition to connect the systems was always…