Getting the Enterprise Digital Core in Shape
While enterprises rush to transform their business digitally, most are taking tactical steps rather than building a comprehensive digital core that can be improved over time. Very few are taking a thorough view of their entire technology portfolio and looking for ways to create a cohesive core—their digital core—to provide them the strength and stability […]
How AI is Transforming Testing Today
Currently, there is much debate about how artificial intelligence (AI) will transform our lives. One of the technology’s key benefits lies in its power to transform traditional approaches to app development and software testing. Gartner identified AI-driven development as one of its top three strategic technology trends for 2019. Digital transformation is dependent on better-quality […]
Digital Transformation Vital for Business Survival
Businesses are in a fight for their survival, and they know it. Their direct competitors, large and small, are digitizing their businesses. And those businesses that effectively digitize first have much to gain competitively. However, as we’ve reported in “Digital Transformation: Coming from Behind” and other stories, many organizations are experiencing significant challenges when it […]
The State of Low-Code Development
As enterprises continue to play catch-up when it comes to meeting their internal demand for new software services and applications, more enterprises—but still, only a minority—are turning to low-code development platforms to try to fill the gap. Low-code development platform provider OutSystems released its sixth annual “State of Application Development Report.” The report is based […]
7 Big Digital Transformation Trends
As enterprises continue their rush to digitally transform their organizations, they’re investing big in retooling their software development pipelines, new artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic process automation (RPA) technologies and low-code development platforms, as well as putting considerable money into customer engagement software. Yet, the extent of success following these investments remains unclear and varies […]
Digital Transformation: Digitally Resilient Organizations
While some are growing weary of the term “digital transformation,” the reality is, it’s here to stay. Digital transformation isn’t just a buzzword or a transient phenomenon. Enterprises are digitizing themselves as rapidly as they can and automating what can be automated, improving customer experiences, leveraging data for machine learning and improving customer experiences. These […]
DevOps Chat: Digital Transformation with Exadel’s Jonathan Fries
In this DevOps Chat, Jonathan Fries, VP of Engineering and Digital Transformation at Exadel, tells us about the new Innovation Lab by Exadel—a place for organizations to accelerate their transformation. We also talk about the state of IT in general from his perch at Exadel, a company with 20 years of empowering IT. You can […]
Digital Transformation: Measuring What Matters
As enterprises strive to digitize their organizations, whether it’s digitally transforming aspects of sales and marketing, customer interactions or supply chain, they’re undergoing a wholesale revamp of traditional businesses into digital business models. While some companies are just getting started, as we covered earlier this month in Digital Transformation: Coming from Behind, the bulk of […]
HybridOps: Driving Better Collaboration and Productivity in IT
Over the past 10 years, enterprise technology has experienced an enormous amount of upheaval. Developers started self-servicing, leading to “shadow IT.” The DevOps movement and alignment with Agile methods started gaining popularity, and thought leaders started making statements about how DevOps is the future and ITIL/ITSM and other traditional practices are the past. With all […]
Digital Transformation: Coming from Behind
For many years, enterprises have been in a race to digitally transform how they work through the digitization of all areas of their business, to reduce costs and business frictions through creating efficiencies and delivering increased value to their customers. While many organizations have attempted a transformation, few have been successful. Research from the consultancy […]
5 Practices That Will Help Drive Successful Robotic Process Automation Deployments
Enterprises have begun to invest considerably in robotic process automation (RPA) in recent years. RPA is one of the critical technologies that enterprises now are leveraging to automate their business processes to make their businesses more agile and efficient. When properly deployed and managed, RPAs can automate everything from mundane tasks (such as organizing files) […]
Digital Transformation Technology and Process: More Similar Than You Think
Right around this time of the year, the gym starts to get a little less crowded. Throughout January, it’s packed to the gills with folks freshly motivated by their New Year’s resolutions to get in shape. But by mid-February, the commitment seems to have all but dissipated. Why is it so hard to just commit? […]
How Software Outsourcing Can Empower Digital Transformation
Businesses are constantly readjusting themselves to become more agile and innovative while maximizing their opportunity in today’s digital economy. This is especially true for up-and-coming businesses with limited budgets that need to think ahead of the curve to find additional resources to fuel their digital transformation. Software outsourcing is no longer perceived as a choice […]
Applying DevSecOps to Address Cloud Security Challenges
Driven by the encouragement from 2018 progress, cloud technology is poised to be even bigger in 2019. However, one major hurdle continues to haunt the cloud trend: security. An overwhelming number of firms in the IT industry are preparing for cloud adoption, yet security continues to be a big question for many of them. Early DevOps […]
5 Trends Transforming Digital and IT Operations Management
In 2018, digital transformation ushered in a radical shift in how enterprises harness customer insights, technology capabilities and rapid experimentation to drive revenue growth, profitability and market leadership. Enterprises spent $1.3 trillion in 2018 on digital transformation technologies such as public cloud platforms, microservices and containers, edge computing, machine learning and artificial intelligence to improve […]
Customer Education Through DTV, the YouTube Digital Transformation Channel
One of the most valuable functions a services provider can perform for its customers is education. High-level education about industry and technology trends is generally not part of any contract, but, as odd as that may seem, keeping customers apprised of important industry trends can help them make wiser choices in the selection of products, […]
DevOps Chat: Digital Transformation with Paul Chapman of Box
It seems every organization is chasing digital transformation. Some companies are succeeding, while some are wallowing a bit, trying to figure out how to do it. Box is a company that is both successfully navigating digital transformation and being a catalyst for digital transformation at other organizations. In this DevOps Chat we speak with Paul […]
Survey Says: Digital Transformation is Hard
IDG and Insight Datalink recently conducted a survey into how companies were doing on their digital transformation journey. Like so much in technology these days, it is easy to feel as though you’ll be left behind if you aren’t well on your way with digital transformation. You’re not. Who Are You People, Anyway? The survey […]
Reinvent Testing to Galvanize Digital Transformation
We’re well past software “eating the world.” According to Tricentis CEO Sandeep Johri, software has become irreversibly intertwined with the world. You can’t find a modern enterprise that doesn’t depend on software, or a business transaction that doesn’t require software at some point in the end-to-end process. In the new world of digital business, companies […]
Why the DevOps Trinity is Key for Digital Transformation
As digital technology continues to disrupt and transform businesses across industries and around the world, the ability to deliver high-quality software rapidly will make the difference between survival and extinction for many companies. DevOps seeks to change the dynamics in which operations and development teams interact. Ultimately, successful adoption of DevOps and the process of […]
How ‘Mature’ is Your Data Integration Competency?
To succeed with their digital transformation initiatives, companies need to use data to the full extent of their capability. Having the right data and applying it to the right problems can help companies gain new insights, create new models and disrupt stagnant processes. No argument there. The problem is, not everyone is putting their data […]
Digital Transformation Strategy? Think Cloud
A few years back companies used innovation and digital transformation mostly to differentiate themselves and to stay competitive. The drastic growth in digital and cloud computing over the last couple of years have changed this mindset. Today, organizations have to be innovative and leverage the latest technologies just to sustain and stay in business. Enterprises […]
Why Digital Transformation Can’t Happen without Experimentation
A sure sign of a company’s successful digital transformation is when it can leverage data to optimize every area within the enterprise. As Forrester puts it, for a company to realize the return on investment (ROI) of a digital investment, “benefits from digital investments need to be aligned with the business requirements for a specific […]