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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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