| |November 20188CIOReviewDIGITAL TRANSFORMATION: A CRITICAL REQUIREMENT FOR EVERY BUSINESS AND ORGANIZATION Subramanian Ananthapadmanabhan, Vice President ­ Enterprise Business, SAP Indian Subcontinent Digital transformation journey may carry different meaning to different businesses. There is no unequivo-cal answer on digital transformation of businesses. But one thing that everyone can agree to is the com-mon denomination of every business: delivering value proposition as per the end customer's expectation. What should be the end goal of digital transformation of a business?New technologies like machine learning, the Internet of everything, blockchain and cloud, are set to transform value chains in order to enable completely new business models. Digital is about intelligently connecting people, things, and businesses. Digital transformation has become a critical requirement for all businesses and organizations. SAP's concept of Intelligent Enterprises works to-wards creating a seamless ecosystem which is one of the key goals of any digital transformation process. By mi-grating to Intelligent Enterprises, SAP helps customer in responding to individual end-user needs, engaging talent in new ways, and creating disruptive business models. One important goal of digital transformation includes creating a robust information logistics system that can collect and analyze data fast enough to be use-ful. To be able to respond on time may involve trans-forming many different IT systems, business processes and organizational structures to facilitate business agility and speed. To successfully implement the digital transformation journey, companies need to find the right partner who can understand and implement the business goals while maintaining the uniqueness of the value proposition of products and services. How is SAP guiding conglomerates throughout the digital transformation journey, helping them attain the desired outcome of transformation? There are a lot of trends around the world causing busi-nesses to rethink their service, operating models, client bases, and transformation strategies. SAP's systematic analysis has found that businesses take the first step on the digital transformation journey by innovating business models, business processes, and modes of work using de-mand-oriented design thinking. SAP has developed a very simple, comprehensive approach to help customers with digital transformation. It is a combination of the three fac-tors described below:· We help organizations optimize their existing landscape and release resources to fund innovation. We do this by consolidating and simplifying IT landscapes and moving them to the cloud· Extending value is mainly driven by adoption of our comprehensive cloud portfolio that helps businesses re-duce spend, improve employee engagement, and improve decision-making process though advanced innovations like SAP Digital Boardroom· We bring SAP Leonardo technologies to identify several strategic scenarios. We co-innovate with the customer and start to prove the value of innovation with these new tech-nologies in a specific environmentOne of our most versatile offerings is SAP Leonardo that combines next-gen technologies and industry exper- One important goal of digital transformation includes creating a robust information logistics system that can collect and analyze data fast enough to be usefulIN MY OPINION
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