siliconindia | | July 20159111001000001100011110001011010111001000of days, destroy business barriers painstakingly built over years.Digital Eco systems are changing the way businesses interact with their customers and with their business partners. Cloud and Mobility enabled platforms, aided by data science driven decision engines, are allowing businesses to interact in real time thereby delivering richer experiences to the customers. For example, retailers today can deliver seamless customer experience by digitally stitching together product customization, shopping, delivery, mobile payment, loyalty management and customer service–probably delivered by multiple partners. Digital eco systems also allow enterprises to be nimble and agile yet build a niche identity–allowing rapid expansion globally. Enablers and providers of such ecosystems are very rapidly expanding their presence.Digital Products leveraging the ubiquitous and pervasive technologies are changing the way we live our lives. These connected products and services not only leverage M2M/ IoT but also rely on underlying fabric of analytics, sensors and cloud. For example, smartphones today can help you diagnose many diseases with simple attachments and also upload the data to your healthcare provider–significantly simplifying the way you can manage your health. These innovations dependent on digital ecosystems behind the screen are creating a whole new breed of opportunities.Among a bundle of core technologies enabling these disruptive transformation opportunities, we would pick following as top three.Hybrid Clouds are now accepted as new normal allowing enterprises to break computational barriers and build internet scale architectures required to support the digital revolution they are part of. Availability of secure and automated orchestration platforms allowing uniform policy deployment and movement of workloads is enabling this transition.Software defined architectures are addressing the flexibility and elasticity needs of enterprises today. There is a greater demand for true plug and play and on demand platforms. There is rapid innovation happening in this space, and the next 12-24 months will see rapid disintermediation of existing technology provider business models, unless they change quickly.Data science, Analytics and Data monetization platforms are not new to enterprises. However, enterprises are now building or leveraging internet scale data analysis platforms combined with advanced real time data science applications helping them to predict and manage interactions in this digitally integrated world.While we looked at the revolutionary technologies, it is important to highlight a couple of associated priorities for the enterprises–to effectively harness the benefits of the transformation opportunities.Digital Risk Management has become the most critical need of enterprises today. Increasing dependency on digital assets and connected ecosystems makes enterprises more vulnerable than ever forcing them to redefine their risk management strategies. Cyber security needs today go well beyond the traditional IT/ network infrastructure.We are in the middle of this transforming ocean and continued re-imagination of business is the new normal!Driven by digital consumerism and being pushed to the corners by digitally enabled nimble disruptors, most enterprises are changing the way they think about technology""Madhwesh KulkarniAshish Mahadwar
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