We are in the midst of transformation phase of information technology. Enterprises are shifting their focus on digitizing their enterprise. As the economy goes more and more digital managing the value created by the digital economy becoming more and more challenging. We see emerging mobile financial services, mobile banking services using non-banking infrastructure like the merger of super telecom technology with banking services. Enterprises are becoming more and more dependable on data, as the data transforming enterprise to smarter decision. Enterprises are digitizing their enterprise to increase service quality as well as increase in revenue growth. Definition of IT transformation has changed to digitizing enterprise. Cloud Computing has transformed the old IT architecture into new paradigm. Near Field Communication (NFC), Unified Threat Management (UTM), next generation firewall, Cloud computing, web services, and Service orientation immensely contributed to this new business process landscape. This is not new news, but most enterprises are started realizing the value of new generation information technology.
It is very clear that the technology is blending with the business to support dynamic nature of the new economy. The mobile web is now matured, the rise of social networking, globalization and the availability of global resources as well as the onset of real time data streaming and access to information are changing the traditional datacenter concept. These are all becoming interconnected and the advancements in technology are driving this at a greater speed. One new approach that is helping to address these issues is Cloud computing. We see this trend as one that will greatly change the way people acquire, deploy and manage IT services.
Therefore the scope of IT Strategy and road map has been extended. The following picture depicts the logical view of the new landscape of enterprise information technology services and delivery model. This highly integrated, flexible, real time interaction, and catalyst for rapid innovation are enabled by architecture design style and cloud computing infrastructure.
Physical consolidation, virtualization of server, storage, network along with right provisioning and workload management technologies can be leveraged to accomplish an optimized and efficient underpinning cloud computing infrastructure. Therefore, augmenting existing strategy and road map may suffice to fulfill the current transformation need. But delivery channel and web component need significant architecture work. That includes social media strategy, collaboration, governance for the new added fabric, and security. For detail approach and how to create a measureable and actionable road map for this transformation please contact me. I will be happy to provide you all relevant artifacts and reference materials that can be used as a framework and reference architecture model.
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