Intelligent CIO Europe Issue 43 | Page 84

FINAL WORD

Bridging the existing and emerging to enable Digital Transformation

Digital Transformation initiatives have accelerated this year due to the impact of the pandemic . Que Magnus , Product Marketing Manager , Micro Focus , and Gur Nedivi , Sales Director , Micro Focus Israel , tell us how organisations across the CEE region are leveraging digital tools to help them balance the two conflicting objectives of ‘ run ’ and ‘ transform ’.

wWhich stage are organisations in your region at in terms of their DX journeys and the tools they ’ ve been leveraging ?

The past year has brought significant challenges to the IT world . Obviously , the pandemic has accelerated a digital shift that the world has never seen before . The rapid demand to enable remote workers and shift customer preferences towards remote interactions and real-time data has brought about fast-tracked Digital Transformations which many organisations are still navigating through .
Remote productivity tools made necessary by COVID-19 saw huge adoption gains last year and are most likely here to stay . But Digital Transformation is a multi-stage journey and most organisations have only scratched the surface of a complete Digital Transformation . The pandemic forced the beginning stages of transformation and now organisations need to look deeper to fully modernise .
Modernisation journeys will differ and will combine over time to achieve a greater whole . Such ambition is strategic , avoids the sharp turns that threaten Business Continuity and is programmed to address the three transformational challenges of applications , processes and infrastructure . For enterprises living the ‘ new now ’, Digital Transformation has become a strategic necessity .
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