Articles about Digital Transformation

Many companies are currently undertaking digital transformation projects, but while customers are quick to embrace the benefits of a customer experience reshaped by technology they have little patience when that technology doesn't work as expected.

To allow teams to define, monitor and manage modern app stacks to ensure they meet service level objectives (SLOs), Sumo Logic is launching a Reliability Management tool.

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A new study reveals that 40 percent of respondents don't know whether their development teams are behind or ahead of schedule, and 27 percent say they have trouble following the teams' progress to ensure they are meeting their goals.

The research from Couchbase, based on a survey of 650 senior IT decision makers, shows 88 percent of respondents are aware of the challenges faced by development teams.

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In recent years, many businesses have embraced digital transformation to boost productivity and streamline operations in an attempt to create competitive advantages. But in the process of migrating critical operations to the cloud, they have exposed themselves to new risks.

With cloud apps accessible from anywhere, it not only helps your users get their work done, it also provides attackers with new vectors to exploit.

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A new survey of 200 UK ecommerce leaders at enterprise organizations with more than £10m ($11.5m) revenue reveals that, on average, businesses lost 10 percent in revenue due to downtime and website performance issues in the last two years.

This is despite increased investment, with 48 percent of respondents saying their spending on eCommerce solutions has increased in the last two years, according to the study by enterprise software company Box UK.

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Almost three quarters (73 percent) of senior IT leaders agree that acquiring IT talent has never been harder and 98 percent say attracting IT talent influences their organization's technology investment choices.

The research from MuleSoft also shows that 86 percent of senior IT leaders now say the experience an organization provides its employees and customers is as important as its products and services.

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Identity data is frequently stored by organizations using a variety of sources, formats, and protocols, sometimes making it impossible to access essential identity information needed for security and business decisions. Without precise identity data, systems cannot decide what users should and should not be able to access which resources. Even worse, to make life easier for the admins, sometimes the default is overextending access and over-privileging accounts. This raises the possibility of a successful breach, as well as the possibility that it will go unnoticed for a longer period of time.

The number of identities linked to companies has also been increasing exponentially -- a recent study by Gartner Peer Insights  found that 60 percent of organizations have more than 21 identities per user.

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According to a new study more than 59 percent of data and technology leaders plan to switch their data warehousing solutions and 46 percent say a legacy system is motivating them to do so.

The research carried out by Propeller Insights for Ocient surveyed 500 people who are managing active data workloads of 150 terabytes or more. It finds 97 percent of respondents say the volume of data managed by their organization is set to grow fast or very fast over the next one to five years.

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Making the most productive use of an organization’s digital resources is a vital ingredient for success in today’s ultra-competitive business landscape. Companies are challenged to extract the maximum value from their data assets when using exclusively in-house computing solutions.

This article will discuss cloud-based solutions and methods businesses can adopt to enhance their organization’s digital transformation. Failure to recognize and act on the potential benefits of these cloud technologies can leave a company struggling to keep up with more proactive market rivals.

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Failure to make the most of their technology investments could be costing large enterprises almost $100m a year according to a new study.

The report from user experience company WalkMe shows enterprises struggle to give employees the ability to use digital tools as they are intended and to their fullest extent.

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Most business leaders (57 percent) believe an enterprise integration strategy is critical to their organization, while 61 percent of CIOs and more than half of system architects and developers said a standardized, enterprise integration strategy is a top priority.

However, only seven percent of respondents have succeeded in implementing an enterprise integration strategy, according to a new study from Digibee, while 93 percent of decision-makers admit they have no formal integration strategy in place.

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According to a new study 93 percent of enterprise IT leaders say the application modernization process is challenging due to staffing, tools, training and other issues.

The survey from Asperitas finds 30 percent of IT leaders say identifying the right tools and technologies is the most difficult part of the process, while 20 percent say it's finding staff with the right experience.

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The way we work has transformed. Increased digitalization, hybrid and fully remote work styles, and the integration of new and emerging technologies are all individual challenges in themselves -- but now, organizations and business leaders are expected to adapt to these changes simultaneously or risk falling behind.

This presents many issues for IT departments. The normalization of remote and hybrid teams and competitive industry pressures are major contributing factors to the increasingly prominent role IT needs to have in strategic decision-making. 

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While banks are investing in technology solutions to meet increasing demands, a new study shows that 61 percent prefer to build their own technology stack, rather than buy technology solutions from a third party.

The study from IT services company NTT DATA surveyed 900 senior banking respondents across 12 countries and examines the state of corporate banking following the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Businesses are keen to capitalize on AI, with 72 percent of business leaders in a new survey believing their competitors are using AI, and 63 percent concerned their competitors will use AI to gain an advantage over their own business.

But the study from SambaNova Systems, of over 2100 enterprise and IT leaders based in the US, UK, and Germany, shows just 18 percent of organizations with AI are rolling it out as a large-scale enterprise-class initiative. The majority -- 82 percent -- are rolling it out as multiple programs, creating disorganization and hindering successful deployment.

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If the UK’s businesses didn’t need to modernize before the pandemic, they certainly do now. The existential crisis many were plunged into over the past two years has reinforced the resolve of boardrooms everywhere that digital transformation is the future. When deployed effectively, it helps to deliver the agility that every business craves, whilst driving the operational efficiencies and productivity gains essential to survival in a period of high inflation and rising costs.

In this context, robotic process automation (RPA) can be a useful tool. But when deployed the wrong way, or in isolation, it may actually end up worsening legacy dependencies rather than alleviating them. Instead, organizations need to think about the bigger picture -- by bringing together apps, automation and extensible integration in a single no-code platform. That’s the best way to achieve modernization at a pace that fits the business.

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