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u Surveys conducted on the extent to which businesses are
prepared for or are confident about the digital era indicate a
guarded optimism about what the era will mean for business but
considerable room for improved understanding and preparation
across dierent areas of the world:
• A survey conducted by Siemens among 300 executives of client
companies in the UAE and Qatar indicate that 45% consider
themselves familiar with what digital transformation is but 77%
associate it with the adoption of a single technology. Only 37%
have a digital strategy and 1% have a Chief Digital Ocer or an
equivalent person leading digital initiatives.
• Half of the CEOs responding to Gartner’s 2016 CIO survey expect
their industry to be substantially or unrecognisably changed by
digital but that “some CIOs find themselves ill-prepared to lead in
the ways demanded by the impending digital reality”.
• The Fujitsu Global Digital Transformation Report of February
2017 indicates that 89% of business leaders respond that
their company is planning, testing and implementing digital
transformation projects and that 34% of these projects have
generated positive outcomes.
• The Forbes Alfresco survey reported in August 2017 based on 328
senior-level executives in North America and Western Europe
indicates that 83% of fast growing companies (=a growth of 10%
or more based on earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and
amortization). have a dedicated UX team for digital transformation
compared to 47% of those with lower growth.
• 80% of business leaders in the Asia Pacific believe they need to
transform to a digital business to enable future growth [Microsoft
Asia Digital Transformation Study, February 2017] yet only 29%
said that they had a full digital strategy in place.
Figure 2: The Preparation for Transformation within Data Centers
Source: DCD Solutions Survey 2016
Among DCD samples of companies with sucient IT workloads to
require access to a data center, the adoption of digital technologies
to replace legacy ones is, at 2016, still a work in progress with the
exception of server virtualization which is the longest established
option shown on the chart below. By 2020 digital options will
have advanced further particularly the deployment of public cloud
and services access from it, but the level of upgrades will also rise,
indicating that the on-premise environment will continue, usually as
part of a hybrid IT arrangement.
This White Paper has been prepared to define and advise on specific
stages and requirements in the digital transformation process:
1. The overall process of digital transformation
2. The Internet of Things as a key function in this process,
3. The role of Analytics, and
4. Underpinning any IT investment and activity, the need to ensure
cybersecurity.
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Figure 3: The Key Components of Digital Transformation
Source: DCD 2017
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