siliconindia | | April 20178THE MAGICAL IMPACT OF DIGITIZATION AND THE MIGHTY FEAT OF ACHIEVING A CLOUD BASED WORLDBy Krishna Kumar, Director, Architecture and Technology Office, Custom Development, SAP LABS INDIAIN MY OPINIONSAP India is the fastest growing subsidiary of SAP SE, the world's leading provider of business software solutions. In the last decade, a key to our big success in digitization and game changing innovations was because of the disruptive nature of technology advancement that happened all over the software industry.Whether it is the database layer that changed to in-memory technology, or architecture that moved into a completely stateless nature, or the deployment advancement into a multitenant cloud landscape, or the boom in the efficiency of storage systems, the world has seen an explosion of new trends. Software paradigms have completely changed and the data driven decisions, enable market selling based on predictions. The e-commerce world has made a world of choices to the thirsty customer who is never tired of trying newer products. This was purely achieved by the right application of technology in the supply chain industry focusing all the way from Ux design till complex routing algorithms.According to the Harvard Business study on designing applications, the cost of complexity is high:· Six out of ten survey respondents say complexity increased operational costs by at least 11 percent.· Nearly 50 percent say their IT systems cannot respond quickly enough to deliver innovative business models or processes.· 43 percent say complexity slows growth, impedes their ability to respond quickly to competitive threats, and interferes with effective decision-making.The power of big data and analytics should not be constrained by the bottlenecks of the middlewareKrishna Kumar
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