As businesses accelerate digital transformation, they face a growing challenge: balancing real-time data needs with network limitations and escalating cloud costs. Traditional cloud-based architectures create single points of failure, latency bottlenecks, and high operational expenses. In contrast, edge-native technologies, powered by peer-to-peer synchronization, mesh networking, and localized, offline-first data processing, offer a paradigm shift that enhances operational resilience, lowers infrastructure costs, and unlocks new revenue opportunities.
This whitepaper provides a quantitative framework to evaluate the economic impact of edge-native architectures, detailing how enterprises can derive financial value by reducing downtime, optimizing infrastructure costs, and enabling new business models. Through a comparative cost-benefit analysis, we demonstrate how businesses leveraging Ditto’s offline-first mobile database and associated Edge Sync Platform can achieve significant financial and strategic advantages.