TEXPO

The last two years for businesses across the region have been anything but a time for innovation for CIOs. Marked by extensive budget cuts and extreme focus on operational tightness, businesses have been rushing to get their house in order. But this does not mean that innovation has to continue to fall through the cracks, thanks to the emergence of operations frameworks that help IT leverage best practices to manage they services they better. So what do these blue prints really mean for businesses? “Let’s look at it this way – enterprises today are dynamic and continuously require to modify processes for doing business profitably. In my view, these blue prints including process frameworks, enterprise roadmaps and operations architectures represent the possibilities for an organisation’s competitive advantage,” says Faisal Qayum Siddiqui, Director for Global Product and Strategy at TEXPO.

The reason why we talk about corporate strategy being the key driver is due to the fact that today’s organisations are driven to ensure sustainability and IT often finds itself in the driving seat. Let’s understand why.

The conversation that first wrapped itself around virtualisation as being a cost saving tool seems to be unravelling a new focus on investing to grow its charter in the enterprise. Dubbed by Gartner as the highest-impact issue challenging infrastructure and operations through 2015, organisations would do well to plan for more growth of virtualisation in their portfolio. But it requires taking a holistic view including assessing the impact it will have on all IT resources and the data centre.

Collaboration is now moving strongly into the enterprise as organisations seek ROI by cashing in on the benefits of integration starting from workflow to document management, portals and enterprise search. A sweet spot, most certainly, for TEXPO as we leverage our SharePoint expertise to deliver customer value.

Over the past few months, the emergence of cloud computing has dominated most technology conversations in organisations. While we all agree that this could be a result of the buzz surrounding an emerging, possibly disruptive IT delivery model, we also see a new perspective to this. The cloud environment is perhaps the real tool that will now flatten IT, allowing even small players to compete in the market by giving them the leap they need to deliver services in a seamless manner. What could be better news?