One point the year 2020 has proved is that no matter exactly where in the globe you live or what you do for a living, technologies is indispensable in life. It is transformational, thrilling, mysterious, omnipresent —all at after. “It has also re-emphasised the need for enterprises to find bold ways to drive business transformation by adopting digitalisation to emerge stronger,” says Kulmeet Bawa, president and MD, SAP Indian Subcontinent.
In a absolutely free-wheeling chat with FE, Bawa says this is not just a brief-term target any longer. “There is a need for a holistic experience that can help employees be more efficient and flexible, enabling customers to go digital, and partners to be adaptable,” he emphasises. As uncertainty becomes the norm in the international company neighborhood, businesses are hunting at technologies to drive efficiency and transparency across their company networks. So, what holds the crucial to a resilient and agile 2021?
The answer (once more) is cloud, says Bawa, “although with some more context given our learning in this historical year.” He reckons that the genuine digital transformation deal is when the company processes are holistically automated, integrated and created autonomous. It calls for a platform on which company get a digital edge and can be transformed in the genuine sense. This, in essence, is Business Cloud, says Bawa. “It takes a business-first approach and is defined directly by the imperatives to become competitively responsive, ruthlessly efficient, and inherently sustainable. It is not just about the IT infrastructure, it’s all about integrated business applications underlying the enterprise processes. It is inherently architected for cloud—making it scalable, elastic, agile, secure, and data-centric,” he says.
Today, businesses can pick from a wide wide variety of cloud deployment options— public, private or hybrid. Bawa says, “What is most important is building your own business case based on the current IT landscape and maturity, business realities, and most importantly, business requirement based on anticipated scale.”
Changing company models
If we appear at the previous couple of decades, merchandise and services have revolutionised the way company is performed. Think about any business—all the processes from front-workplace to back-workplace have undergone transformation—from manual and error-prone to one particular that is automated and effective. Digitalisation has really disrupted industries, blurred boundaries, and led to new company models.
According to Bawa, company processes have important dependencies on internal or external components. Companies rely on their partners to enable meet the expanding demands and provide as and when required. The require of the hour is to offer you customised options so that businesses can provide a personalised practical experience and run their organizations seamlessly. “This is the time when enterprises need enablers and expertise, this is the time to build networks on a global scale,” he adds.
Leading the revolution
As the globe continues to appear towards emerging economies such as India to drive the transformation agenda, the part of technologies in enabling that development can not be understated, says Bawa. For each company as properly as the all round governance framework, managing and utilising information is going to be the crucial driver for the next couple of years.
The decision for businesses who want to thrive in the accurate sense is fairly clear – execute by adapting to the present consumer demands or go into oblivion.
According to Bawa, 2021 is not just a further new year that beckons us. It’s the starting of a new decade that will witness the swiftly altering company dynamics. Those significant about maintaining or attaining leadership, in the extended run, need to exhibit the capability to experiment, study and fail rapidly, embed innovation in company & IT processes and be prepared to pivot company models to be relevant.
“A sustainable cloud strategy will play a pivotal role in helping organisations in their flight to Cloud 9,” he summarises.