Technology
By Chiazo Ogbolu
Lagos, April 18, 2018 (NAN) Dell EMC on Wednesday urged IT companies to adopt information technology transformation technique to achieve bottom-line benefits that would drive business differentiation, innovation and growth.
The Vice Chairman, Products and Operations, Dell Technologies, Mr Jeff Clarke, made the call in a statement in Lagos.
Clarke said that the call came as a result of new research conducted by Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) into the benefits of IT transformation.
“Today’s business landscape is rife with disruption, much of it driven by organisations using technology in new or innovative ways.
“In order to survive and thrive in today’s digital world, businesses are implementing new technologies, processes and skill sets to best address changing customer needs.
“A fundamental first step to this change is transforming IT to help organisations bring products to market faster, remain competitive and drive innovation,” he said.
He said that data was the new competitive edge, yet it was becoming highly distributed across the edge of core data center and cloud.
Clarke said the organisations realised they had to move quickly to turn that data into business intelligence, requiring an end-to-end IT infrastructure that could manage, analyse, store and protect data everywhere it lived.
“We are in the business of better business outcomes, giving our customers the ability, make that end-to-end strategy a reality, driving disruptive innovation without the fear of being disrupted themselves,” he said.
He said that ESG employed a research-based, data-driven maturity model to identify different stages of IT transformation progress and determine the degree to which global organisations had achieved those different stages.
Clarke said that this was based on their responses to questions about their organisations’ adoption of modernised data center technologies, automated IT processes and transformed organisational dynamics.
Mr John McKnight, the Vice President, Research, Enterprise Strategy Group said that companies today needed to be agile to stay competitive and drive growth, and IT Transformation could be a major enabler of that.
“It is clear that IT Transformation is increasingly resonating with companies and that senior executives recognise how IT transformation is pivotal to overall business strategy and competitiveness.
“While achieving transformation can be a major endeavour, our research shows ‘Transformed’ companies experience real business results, including being more likely to be ahead of the competition in bringing new products and services to market.
“They also make better, faster data-driven decisions than their competition, and exceeding their revenue goals,” he said.
McKnight said at Dell Technologies World, April 30 to May 3, experts from Dell EMC would discuss these results and demonstrate how IT transformation creates a digital advantage that could help businesses become more valuable to customers and more competitive in their respective markets.(NAN)
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Edited by Abiodun Esan/Grace Yussuf