Articles about Digital Transformation

The most important aspect of identifying an IT strategy is gaining an understanding of common strategic goals across the organization while simultaneously keeping the participating business units top of mind. When bridging the gap between organizational IT strategy, implementation and management efforts, legacy IT applications will undoubtedly be impacted. Because of this, there must be a vital analysis of the "AS-IS" state and the "TO-BE" state to ensure comprehension from a technology and process perspective. By engaging stakeholders, organizations can ensure that necessary resource allocations have been made to meet strategic IT goals. This type of tactical partnership helps keep the company's vision at the forefront, even amid a complex and large-scale digital transformation.

Once the implementation stage begins, the deployed technologies should seamlessly align with the organization’s top business objectives. Whether strategic goals fall under the tier of scalability, performance or customer experience, the proper partner can help to identify and achieve business-driven results. The organization also needs to ensure all siloed legacy applications are factored in and shifted into the "TO-BE" state along with any data migration viewpoints. This means that movement strategy must be defined as being big-bank or incremental implementation from application delivery all the way to data migration.

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As information technology and operational technology increasingly converge it presents new challenges for organizations needing to keep their systems secure.

There's also been something of a shift in the focus of attacks with more emphasis on causing business disruption and damaging reputations.

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There's been a lot of talk about 'supercloud' recently, but what exactly does it mean? And is it the next big thing that's set to disrupt the technology landscape?

We talked to Amir Khan, CEO and co-founder of Alkira, to find out more about supercloud and what it means for the industry.

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Historically, some sectors have moved towards a digital transformation quickly, while others have taken longer to progress. Here, we will look at how living in the per-digitalised age can be dangerous, as well as issues surrounding companies falling behind their competitors, and how and why traditional processes can be changed.

Digital transformation happens when companies shift away from traditional methods and introduce technology as a fundamental part of their strategy. This can take place through either digital technology being integrated into an organization or through a cultural shift within the business.

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The latest State of API Security Report from Salt Security shows a 400 percent increase in unique attackers in the last six months.

In addition, around 80 percent of attacks happened over authenticated APIs. Not surprisingly, nearly half (48 percent) of respondents now say that API security has become a C-level discussion within their organization.

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The past few years have seen a boom in digital transformation as enterprises have sought to modernize their operations to take advantage of a new, more flexible world of work.

But this change has often led to unwieldy data structures that are difficult to manage, which means that extracting value from the data is harder than it should be.

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When preparing for modernization, 70 percent of companies are confident or very confident in their understanding of their applications.

However, a new report from EvolveWare shows the high confidence level drops as companies plan their modernization project (41 percent) and begin their project (28 percent), suggesting that organizations only start to understand the level of knowledge needed for these efforts after they are further into their planning or execution.

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Most businesses now offer their customers multiple means of getting in touch, with many providing online chatbots as a customer service channel.

But new research released by Twilio shows that without taking advantage of first-party data to understand their customers and personalize their approach, businesses are missing key opportunities to engage.

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People are struggling to recall an ever-growing number of passwords, with 51 percent of respondents to a new study by Entrust saying they reset a password at least once a month because they can't remember it.

Even more alarming, 15 percent of users who responded reset passwords at least once a week. It's no surprise then that given the option between biometrics or a password, 74 percent of respondents will choose biometrics half the time or more and a third will always choose biometrics when available.

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A new survey of 200 US-based machine learning decision makers looks at the trends, opportunities and challenges in machine learning and MLOps (machine learning operations).

The study from ClearML finds that for 41 percent, the biggest challenge of their MLOps platform, tools, or stack, is friction in using tools with other technology. While 22 percent cite vendor lock -- difficulty switching to a different provider without significant costs, time, or disruptions -- as the biggest challenge.

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A new global survey of nearly 10,000 business leaders shows 80 percent say data is crucial to decision making in their organization.

However, the study from Salesforce also shows that a third lack the ability to generate insights from data, only 29 percent are using data to inform their strategy when launching in new markets, and 67 percent are not using data to decide on pricing in line with economic conditions, such as inflation.

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As the world seems to innovate just about every experience in our lives, from online banking to ordering lunch or submitting an expense report, digital transformation continues to enable new possibilities. Research shows the average enterprise invests $48 million annually on digital transformation projects. These projects include improving the experience of enterprise apps for customers, enabling smoother hybrid work experiences for employees, or providing new and improved technology for staff to to increase their productivity, efficiency, and sense of accomplishment.

Taking the broadest possible perspective, the overall spend on IT by enterprises worldwide in 2022 was $4.4 trillion, per Gartner. This spending is forecast to continue increasing in 2023.

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Rolling out digital transformation projects involves navigating increasingly strict data protection regulations, while at the same time coping with risk and inefficiency associated with data silos and copy-based data integration.

Today a pioneering national standard approved by the Standards Council of Canada has been published aimed at providing organizations with a framework to accelerate the delivery of digital innovation projects.

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Digital transformation projects often rely on the updating or replacing of apps, but that can put a brake on the speed of progress.

Many enterprise apps rely on established systems like Java which have been around for a long time but still remain popular. We spoke to Kim Weins, VP of products at open source web development platform Vaadin, to find out more about the challenges of bringing enterprise apps up to date.

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New research commissioned by Telstra shows 41 percent of UK technology leaders identify cybersecurity as an enabler of innovation within their organization.

The fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic has seen unprecedented levels of digital transformation. At the same time though an ever-evolving threat landscape means that security risks are on the rise, leaving organizations facing the difficult task of balancing rapid digitization with security.

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