21BUSINESS REVIEW AUSTRALIAmulti-nationals to join the party. By
2018 Gartner anticipates 25 per cent
of large organisations will run their
financial applications on the public
cloud.
Enterprise-strength cloud solutions
are increasing and security fears are
waning. Larger companies are hungry
for the greater agility and reduced IT
complexity that cloud solutions offer.
The movement of core applications to
the cloud —– among all businesses of
all size — is inevitable.
- The empowered
workforce
Sophisticated software will enable
high-wage, high-skilled workers to
reduce mundane tasks. According to
a McKenzie & Company Report from
November 2015, “As many as 45 per
cent of the activities individuals are
paid to perform can be automated
by adapting currently demonstrated
technologies.”
The report references all employees,
from CEOs, financial managers and
top managers to frontline employees,
the ones who respond to customer’s
needs.
Increasingly sophisticated
software will perform increasingly
sophisticated tasks — everything from
analysing reports and data to making
operating decisions, to preparing
staff assignments to reviewing status
reports. The result will be more
engaged and empowered employees
that deliver greater value.
These five trends — user interface,
IoT, analytics, cloud and the
automated workforce — are at the
heart of Digital Transformation. It is
essential to understand and harness
the power of these trends.
Your business depends on it.
Erik Tiden is chief technology
officer (CTO) at Unit4