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Cloud

4 Things Businesses Must Do Before Migrating to the Cloud: Going Beyond Survival

In 2023, moving to cloud is no longer a decision simply tied to business continuity but rather a means of making innovation happen. However, organizations need to do these 4 key things before jumping headfirst into cloud:

1. Align cloud strategy with company culture to ensure a smooth organizational transition
2. Build up a tolerance for business disruption by modernizing legacy systems
3. Align cloud strategy with cybersecurity and compliance frameworks that are applicable to your organization
4. Choose a cloud transformation partner with will take greater accountability across the cloud journey from initial strategy to optimizing ongoing operations

Digital Business, Featured

Top 3 Ways Supply Chain 4.0 Technologies Are Revolutionizing Supply Chain Operations

Although making the jump towards a fully digitized and interconnected supply chain system requires significant commitment on the part of the organization as well as deep pockets, the payoff is well worth the price of admission. A few of the most notable benefits include:

1. Increased visibility, heightened responsiveness and greater resiliency across the organization’s entire supply chain ecosystem
2. Smarter warehouse management gives companies leeway to experiment with different floor plans, workflows, and other important variables to accurately assess the overall impact on operations.
3. Satisfying evolving customer expectations as well as facilitating synergistic co-creation of value, between both the organization and its customers.

Digital Business, Featured

A 101 Guide for Flipping the Odds of Digital Transformation

A mere 26% of organizations succeed in their digital transformation initiatives. If you’re looking to flip the odds of digital transformation success in your favour and be a part of that elite 26%, here’s what you need to do:

1. Establish clearly defined digital transformation goals
2. Establish a fail-fast-learn mindset to drive change and spearhead innovation
3. Have employees drive digital transformation initiatives from within rather than simply relying on an army of outside consultants
4. Leverage a product mindset to design products that are scalable, functional and last the test of time
5. Hire a technology partner to help replace your age-old legacy systems

Featured, Perspectives

The Pursuit of Client Happiness : Bring in the Shadow Resource

Most people think a happy customer is a myth. However, it’s the emotion of happiness that usually drives customers to choose your brand over all else. While pursuing the hearts and minds of customers can seem daunting and challenging, it need not be so.

With the help of shadow resources, organizations can:

1. Safeguard clients from unexpected losses and deliver continued value
2. Prevent employee burnout by having stand-by resources who can quickly grasp requirement needs and be hands-on in implementation if or when the need arises.
3. Empower employees to learn different technologies and avoid propagating a culture of hero worship.
4. Ensure that an organization’s customers equally stand to gain a ton of value from the project’s implementation.

Enterprise Solutions, Featured

5 Problem Areas in Supply Chain Systems That Immediately Require Modernization

The economic impact of COVID-19 has severely exposed the limitations of supply chains across the world and there are 5 key areas where legacy systems are hampering the quality of these supply chain systems:

1. Reliance on manual processes for decision-making and legacy tools like excel spreadsheets to manage logistic operations.
2. Data silos that adversely affect organization’s ability to gain visibility
3. Failure to move legacy systems to a cloud-based enterprise system across the entire supply chain
4. Integration-related issues with existing logistics systems
5. Inability to facilitate the flow of real-time information

Enterprise Solutions

Tech-driven Healthcare Is Here – Why Everyone loves It!!

80% of healthcare companies are planning to invest more in digital healthcare over the next 5 years. Here are 5 reasons why healthcare organizations have started favoring technology over all else:

1. Improved patient care by providing real-time patient data to doctors by using personalized devices like smart wearables and ECG monitors

2. Health-related information is easily accessible to patients anytime, anywhere

3. Hospitals that make use of healthcare technology such as a CDS system that provides patient critical information to specialists’ result in fewer errors

4. Remote monitoring technologies and telemedicine services are providing patients with medical care in their homes, without the need to visit the nearest doctor

5. The shift from paper-based records to electronic medical records has reduced patient care costs by 3% while giving hospitals the ability to provide better medical care

Digital Business

Is DevOps what the doctor ordered for the healthcare sector?

Patients today expect healthcare providers to offer quick and convenient services. By empowering providers to introduce new services, DevOps enables them to respond to the growing challenges prevalent within the healthcare industry. Notable benefits include:

1. Greater patient engagement and satisfaction and helping organizations keep up with evolving trends
2. Speedy deployment of advanced technologies that can improve the operational efficiency of healthcare enterprises
3. Automated infrastructure management and shortening the SDLC thus improving competitive advantage

4. Enhanced regulatory compliance is made possible
5. Providing better diagnosis and treatment for patients through evidence-based decisions.

Enterprise Solutions

Why the Healthcare Sector Just Can’t Seem to Quit the Legacy Systems Habit

Many hospital systems maintain fragmented administrative, clinical, and regulatory information about medical records compliance and patient data. The Result? $1 trillion is lost in waste every year – that’s a wastage of $1 for every $4 dollar spent by the US on healthcare. The gravest problems pertaining to this travesty arise within the confines of legacy systems. Some of the gravest problems are:

1) The undesired comfort factor of simply maintaining the status quo results in operational silos
2) Hindrance in Integrating with a new system or features
3) Risk aversion mentality
4) Outdated cultural hierarchy resulting in the phenomenon of hero worship

Enterprise Solutions

3 Reasons How Legacy Technology is Hindering Supply Chain Systems

Global supply chain systems are still reliant on a patchwork of outdated technology that struggles to meet real-world demand fluctuations. From inventory data still being tracked by excel sheets to age-old proprietary data collection systems that are costly to upgrade, legacy technology can only do very little to challenge and resolve bottlenecks within supply chain systems. As a result, legacy systems can:

1) Create a culture of risk-aversion since any form of upgradation can lead to delays
2) Turn cybersecurity into a costly affair, as a company’s supply chain systems function on a patchwork of solutions and databases that come from different vendors
3) Take away the ability of organizations to use data proactively for implementing revolutionary changes

Enterprise Solutions

Re-Engineering Healthcare Legacy Systems: 4 Best Practices to Follow

In 2022, legacy infrastructure and age-old application monitoring tools are still being used by 86% of companies worldwide, especially by those in the healthcare space. But using and maintaining legacy tech is becoming a monumental struggle, one that companies are slowly realizing that they will inevitably lose. Therefore, it would be in their best interests to re-engineer existing systems with agility, security, and interoperability in mind. However, to do so, these 4 vital practices must be followed to the letter:
1. Retire Unsupported Systems to Patch Out Vulnerabilities
2. Create Archives for Improved Accessibility
3. Preserve & Leverage Meta Data for Legal Purposes
4. Make the Move to the Cloud