transformation of the global economy – and society – is in full swing, businesses internationally are investing in upgrading the internal functions, in order to respond in the best possible way in the digital era.
Today, only 2/5 of it professionals consider that their business is “digital readyâ€. Specifically, in accordance with the findings of a recent survey of Gartner, 41% of professionals in the IT believes that the company or organisation in which they work, is ready for the digital business of the next two years. In contrast, 59% believes that the company or organisation where they are employed, are unprepared for the digital requirements of the next two years.
At the same time, 29% of the staff IT considers that the requirements, which creates the new digital environment, will be a, if not the main, certainly the main subject of their work for the next few years.
In any case, the professionals are fully aware of the burden weighing on – and will be asked with even greater intensity in the future – to raise in the context of the digital transformation. As is apparent from the research, the strains of IT consider that the technologies, that will have the greatest influence in their work in the next two years, will be cloud computing, analytics, mobility and of course the security sector.
The technology of Cloud
The same it professionals conclude that among the above-mentioned technological trends, that relating to the technology of the Cloud is that going to affect the most of the developments towards the digital the next day. Specifically, 22% of executives agree with the above point of view, a rate twice that of the immediately most popular answer, which it considers as the most catalytic technology, big data and analytics.
The survey also asked for by the executives of the IT to identify up to three existing gaps in the digital skills of the personnel employed. The cloud and the areas of big data and analytics were placed by the same to the executives at the top of this list. The respondents also emphasised that there is a lack of general technical skills (which shows a lack of specific knowledge in matters of technology), as well as a corresponding deficit in the areas of security, mobility and the Internet of Things.
The research
Be noted that the survey was carried out in the 1st half of 2016 in 948 clients of Gartner in 30 countries around the world. The IT professionals who participated in the survey, representing many categories of jobs and sectors of technology. The questions that have been raised concerning the role and efforts of the organism to be transformed, in order to face the challenges of the digital enterprise.
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The digital requirements of the next two years concern to businesses around the world
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