Fast, Efficient, And Secure It Backbone A Must For Successful Digital Transformation

- Pradeep Shilige

In every industry around the world, companies are keen to pursue an ideal mix of best practices, technologies and thinking, to be truly digital. Digital transformation is not all plug-and-play. Going digital is definitely not a hasty leadership push to outdo the competition by purchasing bespoke technology stacks, laying out the piece parts and assembling them together to get a digital enterprise. It is a complex and introspective journey that demands bold decisions to simplify, modernize and secure the company’s digital assets to achieve the nirvana.

Before embarking on the digital transformation journey it definitely helps for long-established IT organizations to have a modern and secure IT backbone as a pre-requisite. With such a robust IT backbone, businesses will be equipped to fend off continuous threats from ‘born digital’ competitors, and also defeat corporate sabotages and frauds that aim to inflict critical liabilities.

To grow revenue, market-share and profitability in today’s digital world, it is necessary to effect technology changes at every layer of the enterprise. Some companies extend their legacy systems with modern digital platforms, which could add unnecessary complications in terms of IT infrastructure. With so much changing so quickly, it is neither feasible to spend big on maintaining legacy systems, nor is it possible to effect cumbersome changes to make legacy IT compatible with myriad systems from acquisitions and partnerships. Keeping all these in mind, here is a three point blueprint that helps any organization get started on its digital transformation journey.

SIMPLIFY: REDUCE LEGACY, STREAMLINE PROCESSES, AND TIGHTLY ALIGN WITH BUSINESS