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Five Steps to Migrate Unisys Mainframes to AWS
By Craig Marble, Senior Director of Legacy Modernization, Astadia
Key Takeaways
- Cloud providers like AWS have proven to be a viable option for running
mainframe application workloads
- The most effective method to exploit the value of Unisys mainframe
applications and data is a transformative migration to modern systems
frameworks in AWS, reusing as much of the original application source as
possible.
- Execute a discover, design, modern, test, and implement cycle to move
mainframe applications.
- Some mainframe migration tools can keep existing code in place, but expect
to replace components and rethink data storage.
The Mainframe Conundrum
If you have a Unisys mainframe, you may be thinking that cloud computing
isn't an option. You'd like to take advantage of all that cloud computing
offers but don't think it's poss... (more)
Technology integration is complex and an evergreen business challenge for IT
teams. Enterprises setup manual & point to point connections to exchange data
from business partners. However, data disruptions emerge when the business IT
systems expand and prevents organizations from sharing data with partners.
Information exchange with this approach requires more resources and manpower
is required. For such scenarios, information solution experts recommend to
use the B2B data exchange tool to support the Electronic Data Interchange.
However, enterprises are struck in a dilemma to go for an in house or a b2b
solution. This blog will help you in deciding whether to develop an in-house
solution or a dedicated information solution
What the Information Solutions Experts Recommend
Organizations generally opt for a B2B data exchange tool considering a
request from partners, rat... (more)
Chatbots Are Here, and It Is Just the Beginning
By Mark Troester
Chatbots are the next big thing, but there’s always another big thing
coming. Prepare for the future with a flexible architecture that’s ready
for everything.
Chatbots are growing rapidly in popularity and adoption, but while more and
more organizations are beginning to see the potential, far fewer have
developed a concrete strategy for them. Major companies are experimenting
with the AI behind chatbots though (with varying degrees of success, such as
Microsoft’s Tay.ai and Facebook’s recent conversing bots), and it’s
easy to find coverage about the promising future of chatbots and enthusiastic
statistics such as how 80% of businesses want to use chatbots by 2020.
Clearly, it’s an important technology that business leaders need to plan
for.
However, there’s a bigger story here, and that’s that the app... (more)
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Global Traffic Management Informed by End-User Experience for Multi-Cloud
Flexibility
Enterprise architects are increasingly adopting multi-cloud strategies as
they seek to utilize existing data center assets, leverage the advantages of
cloud computing and avoid cloud vendor lock-in. This requires a globally
aware traffic management strategy that can monitor infrastructure health
across data centers and end-user experience globally, while responding to
control changes and system specification at the speed of today's DevOps
teams.
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In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Josh Gray, Chief Architect at Cedexis,
covered strategies for orchestrating global traffic achieving the
highest-quality end-user experience while spanning multiple clouds and data
centers and reacting at the velocity... (more)
"We're a cybersecurity firm that specializes in engineering security
solutions both at the software and hardware level. Security cannot be an
after-the-fact afterthought, which is what it's become," stated Richard
Blech, Chief Executive Officer at Secure Channels, in this SYS-CON.tv
interview at @ThingsExpo, held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara
Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Internet of @ThingsExpo, taking place October 31 - November 2, 2017, at the
Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with 21st
Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference
faculty and the leading industry players in the world.
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The Internet of Things (IoT) is the most profound change in personal and
enterprise IT since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago.
All major researcher... (more)
"Outscale was founded in 2010, is based in France, is a strategic partner to
Dassault Systémes and has done quite a bit of work with divisions of
Dassault," explained Jackie Funk, Digital Marketing exec at Outscale, in this
SYS-CON.tv interview at 20th Cloud Expo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits
Center in New York City, NY.
21st International Cloud Expo, taking place October 31 - November 2, 2017, at
the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical
sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players
in the world.
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Cloud computing is now being embraced by a majority of enterprises of all
sizes. Yesterday's debate about public vs. private has transformed into the
reality of hybrid cloud: a recent survey shows that 74% of enterprises have a
hybrid cloud strategy. Meanwhile, 94% o... (more)
"We provide DevOps solutions. We also partner with some key players in the
DevOps space and we use the technology that we partner with to engineer
custom solutions for different organizations," stated Himanshu Chhetri, CTO
of Addteq, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at DevOps at 18th Cloud Expo, held
June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
@DevOpsSummit at Cloud Expo taking place June 6-8, 2017, at Javits Center,
New York City, and is co-located with the 20th International Cloud Expo and
will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the
leading industry players in the world.
DevOps at Cloud Expo / @ThingsExpo 2017 New York
(June 6-8, 2017, Javits Center, Manhattan)
DevOps at Cloud Expo / @ThingsExpo 2017 Silicon Valley
(October 31 - November 2, 2017, Santa Clara Convention Center, CA)
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The wide... (more)
Seven Essentials for a Top-Performing IT Help Desk
By Ujjwal Sood, product analyst, ManageEngine
The help desk forms the backbone of IT operations for many federal, state and
local government agencies. In fact, the cross-functional nature of its
operation means the help desk directly impacts productivity and is an
essential part of what enables an agency to meet its stakeholder needs.
However, owing to increasingly complex IT environments, managers struggle to
ensure that their help desks are operating at optimum efficiency. This
seven-point guide will help IT managers ensure their help desks deliver
exceptional service while maximizing productivity.
1. Create the right structure: Properly structuring an IT help desk can
greatly improve its efficiency. Organize help desks into multiple levels or
tiers. In a three-tier help desk, for example, tier 0 can be a self-serv... (more)
I'm told that it has been 21 years since Scrum became public when Jeff
Sutherland and I presented it at an Object-Oriented Programming, Systems,
Languages & Applications (OOPSLA) workshop in Austin, TX, in October of 1995.
Time sure does fly. Things mature. I'm still in the same building and at the
same company where I first formulated Scrum.[1] Initially nobody knew of
Scrum, yet it is now an open source body of knowledge translated into more
than 30 languages.[2] People use Scrum worldwide for developing software and
other uses I never anticipated.[3]
Scrum was born and initially used by Jeff and me to meet market demand at our
respective companies. After we made Scrum public in 1996 and writing my paper
SCRUM Development Process, we started trying Scrum publicly, in companies
with critical needs that were willing to try anything. The first organization
where we e... (more)
How to Become the "Most Popular" @CloudExpo, @ThingsExpo and @DevOpsSummit
Speaker
With 10 simultaneous tracks, keynotes, general sessions and targeted breakout
classes, Cloud Expo and @ThingsExpo are two of the most important technology
events of the year. Since its launch over eight years ago, Cloud Expo and
@ThingsExpo have presented a rock star faculty as well as showcased hundreds
of sponsors and exhibitors!
In this blog post, I provide 7 tips on how, as part of our world-class
faculty, you can deliver one of the most popular sessions at our events. But
before reading these essential tips, please take a moment and watch this
brief video from Sandy Carter.
"Cloud Expo was really the event to connect with thought leaders, innovators,
business folks who are interested in what the cloud can bring to their
business. You know really how it allows them to bring the... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that Anexia will exhibit at SYS-CON's 18th
International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 6-9, 2017, at the
Javits Center in New York City, NY.
Anexia offers high-quality customized managed hosting solutions for SaaS and
IaaS companies. The company was founded in 2006 in Klagenfurt, Austria.
Today, it has additional offices in Vienna, Graz, Munich, Cologne and New
York City to serve numerous international customers.
For more information, visit https://www.anexia-it.com.
@DevOpsSummit at Cloud Expo taking place June 6-8, 2017, at Javits Center,
New York City, and is co-located with the 20th International Cloud Expo and
will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the
leading industry players in the world.
DevOps at Cloud Expo / @ThingsExpo 2017 New York
(June 6-8, 2017, Javits Center, Manhattan)
De... (more)
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@CloudExpo Stories By Elizabeth White  "We're here to tell the world about our cloud-scale infrastructure that we have at Juniper combined with the world-class security that we put into the cloud," explained Lisa Guess, VP of Systems Engineering at Juniper Networks, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 20th Cloud Expo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Aug. 25, 2017 02:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,418 | By Liz McMillan  Historically, some banking activities such as trading have been relying heavily on analytics and cutting edge algorithmic tools. The coming of age of powerful data analytics solutions combined with the development of intelligent algorithms have created new opportunities for financial institutions. In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Sebastien Meunier, Head of Digital for North America at Chappuis Halder & Co., discussed how these tools can be leveraged to develop a lasting competitive advantage ... Aug. 25, 2017 02:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,203 | By Pat Romanski  In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Scott Davis, CTO of Embotics, discussed how automation can provide the dynamic management required to cost-effectively deliver microservices and container solutions at scale. He also discussed how flexible automation is the key to effectively bridging and seamlessly coordinating both IT and developer needs for component orchestration across disparate clouds – an increasingly important requirement at today’s multi-cloud enterprise. Aug. 25, 2017 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,644 | By Yeshim Deniz  SYS-CON Events announced today that JETRO will showcase Japan Digital Transformation Pavilion at SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on Oct 31 - Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. The Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) is a non-profit organization that provides business support services to companies expanding to Japan. With the support of JETRO's dedicated staff, clients can incorporate their business; receive visa, immigratio... Aug. 24, 2017 11:30 PM EDT Reads: 566 | By Elizabeth White  You know you need the cloud, but you’re hesitant to simply dump everything at Amazon since you know that not all workloads are suitable for cloud. You know that you want the kind of ease of use and scalability that you get with public cloud, but your applications are architected in a way that makes the public cloud a non-starter. You’re looking at private cloud solutions based on hyperconverged infrastructure, but you’re concerned with the limits inherent in those technologies. Aug. 24, 2017 11:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,555 | By Elizabeth White  Connecting to major cloud service providers is becoming central to doing business. But your cloud provider’s performance is only as good as your connectivity solution. Massive Networks will place you in the driver's seat by exposing how you can extend your LAN from any location to include any cloud platform through an advanced high-performance connection that is secure and dedicated to your business-critical data.
In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Paul Mako, CEO & CIO of Massive Networks, wil... Aug. 24, 2017 11:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,201 | By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that Massive Networks will exhibit at SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Massive Networks mission is simple. To help your business operate seamlessly with fast, reliable, and secure internet and network solutions. Improve your customer's experience with outstanding connections to your cloud. Aug. 24, 2017 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,871 | By Elizabeth White  DevOps is under attack because developers don’t want to mess with infrastructure. They will happily own their code into production, but want to use platforms instead of raw automation. That’s changing the landscape that we understand as DevOps with both architecture concepts (CloudNative) and process redefinition (SRE).
Rob Hirschfeld’s recent work in Kubernetes operations has led to the conclusion that containers and related platforms have changed the way we should be thinking about DevOps and... Aug. 24, 2017 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,597 | By Liz McMillan  The question before companies today is not whether to become intelligent, it’s a question of how and how fast. The key is to adopt and deploy an intelligent application strategy while simultaneously preparing to scale that intelligence. In her session at 21st Cloud Expo, Sangeeta Chakraborty, Chief Customer Officer at Ayasdi, will provide a tactical framework to become a truly intelligent enterprise, including how to identify the right applications for AI, how to build a Center of Excellence to ... Aug. 24, 2017 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,210 | By Elizabeth White  Everything run by electricity will eventually be connected to the Internet. Get ahead of the Internet of Things revolution and join Akvelon expert and IoT industry leader, Sergey Grebnov, in his session at @ThingsExpo, for an educational dive into the world of managing your home, workplace and all the devices they contain with the power of machine-based AI and intelligent Bot services for a completely streamlined experience. Aug. 24, 2017 09:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,601 | By Elizabeth White  Because IoT devices are deployed in mission-critical environments more than ever before, it’s increasingly imperative they be truly smart. IoT sensors simply stockpiling data isn’t useful. IoT must be artificially and naturally intelligent in order to provide more value
In his session at @ThingsExpo, John Crupi, Vice President and Engineering System Architect at Greenwave Systems, will discuss how IoT artificial intelligence (AI) can be carried out via edge analytics and machine learning techn... Aug. 24, 2017 09:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,456 | By Yeshim Deniz  SYS-CON Events announced today that CA Technologies has been named "Platinum Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place October 31-November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. CA Technologies helps customers succeed in a future where every business - from apparel to energy - is being rewritten by software. From planning to development to management to security, CA creates software that fuels transformation for companies in the applic... Aug. 24, 2017 09:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,395 | By Elizabeth White  FinTechs use the cloud to operate at the speed and scale of digital financial activity, but are often hindered by the complexity of managing security and compliance in the cloud. In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Sesh Murthy, co-founder and CTO of Cloud Raxak, showed how proactive and automated cloud security enables FinTechs to leverage the cloud to achieve their business goals. Through business-driven cloud security, FinTechs can speed time-to-market, diminish risk and costs, maintain continu... Aug. 24, 2017 09:15 PM EDT Reads: 3,281 | By Pat Romanski  SYS-CON Events announced today that Calligo has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Calligo is an innovative cloud service provider offering mid-sized companies the highest levels of data privacy. Calligo offers unparalleled application performance guarantees, commercial flexibility and a personalized support service from its globally located cloud platform... Aug. 24, 2017 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 565 | By Pat Romanski  As businesses adopt functionalities in cloud computing, it’s imperative that IT operations consistently ensure cloud systems work correctly – all of the time, and to their best capabilities. In his session at @BigDataExpo, Bernd Harzog, CEO and founder of OpsDataStore, presented an industry answer to the common question, “Are you running IT operations as efficiently and as cost effectively as you need to?” He then expounded on the industry issues he frequently came up against as an analyst, and ... Aug. 24, 2017 08:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,008 | By Pat Romanski  As many know, the first generation of Cloud Management Platform (CMP) solutions were designed for managing virtual infrastructure (IaaS) and traditional applications. But that’s no longer enough to satisfy evolving and complex business requirements. In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Scott Davis, Embotics CTO, will explore how next-generation CMPs ensure organizations can manage cloud-native and microservice-based application architectures, while also facilitating agile DevOps methodology. He wi... Aug. 24, 2017 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,056 | By Liz McMillan  Businesses and business units of all sizes can benefit from cloud computing, but many don't want the cost, performance and security concerns of public cloud nor the complexity of building their own private clouds. Today, some cloud vendors are using artificial intelligence (AI) to simplify cloud deployment and management. In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Ajay Gulati, Co-founder and CEO of ZeroStack, discussed how AI can simplify cloud operations. He covered the following topics: why cloud mana... Aug. 24, 2017 07:30 PM EDT Reads: 572 | By Pat Romanski  From 2013, NTT Communications has been providing cPaaS service, SkyWay. Its customer’s expectations for leveraging WebRTC technology are not only typical real-time communication use cases such as Web conference, remote education, but also IoT use cases such as remote camera monitoring, smart-glass, and robotic. Because of this, NTT Communications has numerous IoT business use-cases that its customers are developing on top of PaaS. WebRTC will lead IoT businesses to be more innovative and address... Aug. 24, 2017 06:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,402 | By Elizabeth White  While some vendors scramble to create and sell you a fancy solution for monitoring your spanking new Amazon Lambdas, hear how you can do it on the cheap using just built-in Java APIs yourself. By exploiting a little-known fact that Lambdas aren’t exactly single-threaded, you can effectively identify hot spots in your serverless code. In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 21st Cloud Expo, Dave Martin, Product owner at CA Technologies, will give a live demonstration and code walkthrough, showing how ... Aug. 24, 2017 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,643 | By Elizabeth White  Blockchain is a shared, secure record of exchange that establishes trust, accountability and transparency across business networks. Supported by the Linux Foundation's open source, open-standards based Hyperledger Project, Blockchain has the potential to improve regulatory compliance, reduce cost as well as advance trade. Are you curious about how Blockchain is built for business? In her session at 21st Cloud Expo, René Bostic, Technical VP of the IBM Cloud Unit in North America, will discuss th... Aug. 24, 2017 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,681 |
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In 2016, artificial intelligence (AI) reached its climax. Research and advisory firm Tractica predicted that the annual worldwide AI revenue will grow from $643.7 million in 2016 to $38.8 billion by 2025. The revenue for enterprise AI applications will increase from $358 million in 2016 to $31.2 billion by 2025, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 64.3%. Thus, IT and business decision makers must face up to the potentials of AI already today. For each kind of organization this leads to the question, which type of technologies or infrastructure they can leverage to operate an A...
Any significant business process that can be documented and best practices identified - will be. Any defined process that can be standardized - will be. Standardized processes that can be codified and automated (through robotic software automation), will be - if the volume justifies it. If the process is repeatable across many companies it will be offered as a shared service on a platform in a cloud.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Dr. Robert Cohen, an economist and senior fellow at the Economic Strategy Institute, presented the findings of a series of six detailed case studies of how large corporations are implementing IoT. The session explored how IoT has improved their economic performance, had major impacts on business models and resulted in impressive ROIs. The companies covered span manufacturing and services firms. He also explored servicification, how manufacturing firms shift from selling a product to offering it as a service and discussed methods you can employ to estimate how inv...
“You can’t stop the incessant march of economics” – Bill Schmarzo
Okay, so it’s probably not cool to quote oneself, but hey, this is my blog and I get to do what I want. And for anyone who follows me knows, I love to “riff” on the game-changing power of economics. The “economics of big data” – where the cost to store, manage and analyze data is 20x to 100x cheaper than traditional analytics – started this big data and data science craze. But ultimately it is the economics of value, or to be specific, “value in use” where the economics really become a game changer....
I recently had the opportunity to give a 10-minute keynote at DataWorks Summit 2017. I know what most of you are thinking: Schmarzo can barely introduce himself in 10 minutes! What sort of keynote could he give in just 10 minutes? And to be honest, I too struggled with what to say.
But after some brainstorming with my marketing experts (Jeff Abbott, Erin Banks, and Chris Hill), we came up with an idea: Pose 5 questions that every organization needs to consider as they prepare themselves for digital transformation. And while I didn’t have enough time in 10 minutes to answer those questions...
Increasingly, in a world of compressed times and distances, humans will be the inventors, designers and managers of digital systems and processes, rather than the operators. Operations will be measured in milliseconds, an inhumane speed where only the machines can deliver.
Professor Paul Virilio, a philosopher of speed, urbanist and cultural theorist, wrote at length about the impact of speed on society. He wrote that speed compresses both time and distance. Where once it took a letter 6 months to get to the other side of the world, an email can now arrive in seconds. Today's near real-tim...
Like me, I’m sure that many of you nerds have read the book “I, Robot.” “I, Robot” is the seminal book written by Isaac Asimov (actually it was a series of books, but I only read the one) that explores the moral and ethical challenges posed by a world dominated by robots.
But I read that book like 50 years ago, so the movie “I, Robot” with Will Smith is actually more relevant to me today. The movie does a nice job of discussing the ethical and moral challenges associated with a society where robots play such a dominant and crucial role in everyday life.
When shopping for a new data processing platform for IoT solutions, many development teams want to be able to test-drive options before making a choice. Yet when evaluating an IoT solution, it’s simply not feasible to do so at scale with physical devices. Building a sensor simulator is the next best choice; however, generating a realistic simulation at very high TPS with ease of configurability is a formidable challenge. When dealing with multiple application or transport protocols, you would be looking at some significant engineering investment.
On-demand, serverless computing enables deve...
SYS-CON Events announced today that DXWorldExpo has been named “Global Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo, which will take place on Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Digital Transformation is the key issue driving the global enterprise IT business. Digital Transformation is most prominent among Global 2000 enterprises and government institutions.
In the blog “From Autonomous to Smart: Importance of Artificial Intelligence,” we discussed the two critical artificial intelligence (AI) challenges in creating “smart” edge devices: Artificial Intelligence Challenge #1: How do the Artificial Intelligence algorithms handle the unexpected, such as flash flooding, terrorist attacks, earthquakes, tornadoes, police car chases, emergency vehicles, blown tires, a child chasing a ball into the street, etc.?
API Security has finally entered our security zeitgeist. OWASP Top 10 2017 - RC1 recognized API Security as a first class citizen by adding it as number 10, or A-10 on its list of web application vulnerabilities. We believe this is just the start. The attack surface area offered by API is orders or magnitude larger than any other attack surface area. Consider the fact the APIs expose cloud services, internal databases, application and even legacy mainframes over the internet. What could go wrong?
In recent years AI has grown significantly and become a substantial area of business investment. What has changed, and how does this affect you?
For a long time, artificial intelligence was pure science fiction, relegated to books, television and movies—and you don’t need us to tell you that we are well past that point today. In the last few years we have seen extremely rapid advancement in a series of technologies that have come together to unlock a wave of AI investment. According to Accenture, 85% of executives plan to invest extensively in AI in the next three years, and in the same tim...
With the wave of personal assistants, such as Siri, Cortana and Google Assistant, and new startups leveraging AI and analytics to build personal companions, it’s becoming clear we are moving toward a new voice-controlled relationship with technology. As we have already seen in the consumer market, it is all but a given that these voice-activation systems will eventually make it into the enterprise environment, as the potential benefits of these systems could be tremendous in simplifying and automating activities. Although it may be a long time before we see the full likenesses of “HAL” from “2...
Internet-of-Things discussions can end up either going down the consumer gadget rabbit hole or focused on the sort of data logging that industrial manufacturers have been doing forever. However, in fact, companies today are already using IoT data both to optimize their operational technology and to improve the experience of customer interactions in novel ways. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Gordon Haff, Red Hat Technology Evangelist, shared examples from a wide range of industries – including energy, transportation, and retail – of using IoT to create new business opportunities and improve eff...
The renowned military strategist John Boyd taught that people and institutions collect favorite philosophies, strategies, theories and ideologies over a period of time, and then try to align the future to fit them. The problem with this is the future is rarely like the past, and trying to fit new data into old paradigms often forces us to perform irrational mental gymnastics, which leaves us farther from the truth.
Fast-paced changes in the business landscape demand enterprises to rethink their existing business models and add innovative capabilities keeping in mind the new imperatives. One among them is the focus on Digital transformation. In the retail industry, growth is measured in terms of increased sales and value addition to existing products while keeping customer expectations in mind. This is where a digital focus is important to remain competitive.
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