FEATURE
US$1.3 trillion was spent on Digital
Transformation last year, but it’s
estimated 70% of those investments
went to waste.
Steve Wood, Chief Product Officer, Boomi,
Steve Wood, Chief Product
a Dell
Technologies
Officer,
Boomi, business
a Dell
Technologies business
Moving every application and dataset
into the cloud or applying serverless
computing to every workload isn’t
always the best move – and I anticipate
we’ll see businesses finally applying
lessons learned from their over
eagerness in 2020.
It’s not fiscally responsible to incorporate
every last tech trend; none of them are
magic bullets to Digital Transformation.
Businesses are going to have to be more
strategic, customising their plans to their
business objectives and culture, and
placing emphasis on accelerated time to
value over long-term, moonshot ideas.
Digital Transformation strategies
for the cloud will pull an about-
face to hybrid IT environment
Companies that rushed to move all their
business processes to the cloud are now
finding it more expensive or cumbersome
than anticipated.
Over the next year, we’re going to see
many businesses return to the hybrid
model. Despite cloud computing’s
recent leaps and bounds, it still can’t
do everything on-prem can, creating
breakpoints across environments.
COMPANIES
THAT RUSHED
TO MOVE ALL
THEIR BUSINESS
PROCESSES TO
THE CLOUD ARE
NOW FINDING IT
MORE EXPENSIVE
OR CUMBERSOME
THAN
ANTICIPATED.
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Issue 11
Is iPaaS a thing of the past? The
future of data integration in 2020
and beyond
The term iPaaS (integration platform as
a service) first came around when we
announced AtomSphere in 2008. Now, as
we enter 2020, I believe we’ll see a shift
in this area as the market consolidates
and continues to commoditise – Gartner
predicts that by 2023, up to two-thirds
of existing iPaaS vendors will merge,
be acquired or exit the market. Within
the next year, I believe there will be
a new category/term used to define
the unification of applications, people,
processes, systems and devices: data
unification platform.
How organisations are dealing
with their data isn’t going to cut
it in 2020 – companies need an
integration strategy
Global data regulations, combined
with data silos will have organisations
scrambling to rethink their data
management strategies in 2020 and look
towards data integration – or risk getting
left behind.
Savvy businesses are now turning towards
this to glean more accurate and robust
insights, streamline operations and
improve business outcomes. This new
strategy reduces the time and resources
required to constantly reroute data to
THE MAMMOTH
SURGE OF DATA
VOLUME AND
THE NEW WAYS
TO CREATE AND
CONNECT THIS
DATA WILL MAKE
IMPLEMENTING
EFFECTIVE
CYBERDEFENCES
FROM EVERY
ANGLE A MUCH
BIGGER TASK.
one place. As companies put dollars
and resources behind Edge Computing
and IoT next year as well, updating their
data strategy is critical so they don’t risk
losing out on the benefits of next-gen
technologies or fall behind competitors.
Companies will rely more
on metadata than data to
provide insights
Overzealous data analyses have brought
many companies face to face with
privacy lawsuits from consumers and
governments alike, which in turn has led
to even stricter data governance laws.
Understandably concerned about making
similar mistakes, businesses will begin
turning to metadata for insights in 2020,
rather than analysing actual data.
By harvesting data’s attributes –
including its movement, volume, naming
conventions and other properties
– companies will give indications of
concerns around accessing PII and other
sensitive information.
Metadata lends itself well to data privacy
and with the correct Machine Learning
and Artificial Intelligence modelling, can
still provide critical information to the
C-suite such as lead generation changes,
third-party data access, potential breaches
and more. ◊
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