Digital Transformation is no longer a buzzword, but rather a direct reflection of the massive changes that are happening across every industry. Organizations are making substantial investments in IT to succeed in this environment, using data as an asset across all aspects of their business. There has also been substantial movement toward onboarding cloud services to accelerate innovation, expand to new locations, keep up with massive growth, and reduce costs of delivering IT.

As a result, IT departments are under significant pressure. They are no longer treated as a cost center, but, instead, IT is playing a significant role in shaping their organization’s overall digital strategy. The growth of organizations’ application ecosystems represents a large shift for many IT departments. Significant challenges along the way, such as aging data centers and legacy infrastructure, make it difficult to support their transformation ambitions.

IT departments are now forced to reexamine what they do and how they do it—prioritizing their business objectives to deliver greater efficiency, predictability, and business agility.