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Vinod Ganesan
Digital Transformation Country Manager India -
Cloudera
Digital Transformation projects
see an unprecedented rise in
past one year
Any company that accelerated Barriers to Transformation
their digital transformation is The biggest challenge that most
required to move from active organizations face in their
experimentation to active scale- transformation journey is their
up across two dimensions: at the inability to harness the potential of
core of the company and through data to derive valuable insights.
t h e d e v e l o p m e n t o f n e w When we drill down further, we find
businesses. Vinod Ganesan that data management itself is
highlights how top-performing becoming a challenge as a result
companies that continue to take o f r i s e i n s h a d o w I T w h e r e
this twin approach will continue b u s i n e s s e s a r e b y p a s s i n g
Cloud Platform, a hybrid data cloud
to build on the Covid induced best Enterprise IT (as it is unable to
supporting analytics across the
p r a c t i c e s e v e n a f t e r t h e respond to the pace of business)
entire data lifecycle and built using
pandemic - and moving to point solutions on
open source technologies.
Major forces driving Digital the cloud. Also many organizations
Transformation are adopting a Hybrid Cloud Pandemic accelerating
strategy and unfortunately don't the pace
The past year has seen an
have an effective data strategy to There's a popular meme going
unprecedented number of Digital
deal with it. Then comes the around in the form of a short
transformation projects being
element of real-time decision questionnaire asking who is driving
rolled out by companies and the
making capabilities where one digital transformation. The first two
impact was best summarised by
should analyze data and respond options are “CEO” and “CIO.” Below
Satya Nadella, who said “We saw
to events as they happen.
two years of Digital transformation that, highlighted with a bright red
being delivered in two months”. Cloudera understands these circle, is “COVID-19.” which clearly
Clearly the major driver was the i s s u e s a n d t o o k a h o l i s t i c underscores the point that the
pandemic which acted as the approach, which resulted in the pandemic has accelerated the
biggest catalyst for change. creation of the Enterprise Data - adoption of digital transformation.
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