To help a business stay competitive, the IT function needs to support digital transformation agendas and help exploit the potential of technology-enabled innovation. However, they need to do this against the backdrop of a challenging and uncertain economic environment, with IT budgets under more pressure than ever before.
As the need for organisations to move faster and become more flexible to meet the demands of their customers, IT teams need to be agile to innovate, launch new products, and test new processes. Creating a self-service DevOps environment with Cloudify gives developers, data scientists, and QA engineers a better DevOps experience with less effort.
Now more than ever, return on investment (ROI) is vital to businesses of all sizes. Firstly, you must accurately calculate the ROI you will achieve from a project to gain approval. Then, ROI needs to be measured to demonstrate you have met or exceeded your goals.
Organisations are on a perennial quest to reduce costs and increase their business focus with the power of data. There is an increased emphasis on unleashing the full potential of technology with the Data Centre (DC) and the corroborating IT infrastructure. Organisations are increasingly looking forward to unlocking data-driven transformation by partnering with the right Data Centre service providers for organisational resilience, business continuity, and cost savings.
We’ve all been there. We’ve had to set a password in a system and we’ve been told it’s not strong enough. Or we finally set a strong password only to be told 30 days later that we need to change our password. Password policies are not enough to encourage good security behaviour.
It's simple, companies that have compliance as a key component of their culture and have fully integrated compliance management into their business systems to reach business objectives, perform better. Their employees have a higher level of satisfaction, resulting in improved productivity and employee retention. Their reputation and brand perception is better, which results in better economic performance in the marketplace. Safety records improve, reducing both cost and risk.
New Services That support The New Normal But How Do Businesses Get The Most Benefit?
In 2020, we learnt some valuable lessons about innovation in the cloud. Businesses that were previously lagging in their digital transformation efforts, found themselves on the back-foot and had to up the pace of innovation to support their dispersed workforce, remain competitive in their market and create customer experiences that would help them weather the storm.
In the digital age, migration to Cloud has become the top-most priority for businesses across realms. We are seeing a major shift in the number of ‘Cloud Hostile’ customers turning into ‘Cloud Friendly’ & ‘Cloud Ready’ customers and pondering on the best plan to implement the migration successfully.
Taking steps to meet your legal obligations may sound obvious, but only fulfilling your minimum requirements might result in missed opportunities. Understanding the compliance needs that govern your business will help you take advantage of any benefits while ensuring you stay compliant.
Constant change means building a cloud technology business is tough. But if we learned anything this year, it’s this: flexibility is vital to surmounting the challenges.
