For big businesses with an internet presence, one of their biggest concerns may be downtime. Amazon.com being down for a few hours can represent millions in lost revenue. This raises an interesting question: how often is bitcoin down? How much downtime can be expected from data systems built utilizing blockchain technology? Blockchain's reliability is one area where it has the potential to outshine standard backend databases. Not to say that this advantage doesn't come with disadvantages to offset it.
Blockchain technology is already being used by maersk, IBM, walmart & other retailers as a inventory tool. There may definitely be many applications for it that will take time to catch on and be proven effective in their respective roles.