Cost savings through application rationalization Many CIOs are being drawn into meetings with CFOs these days. On the agenda is cost control and management. In challenging times, that’s only natural especially when you consider how IT investments had surged in the last few years. In many ways, that’s a great place to start because the […]
i-Source’s Peoplesoft Application Support Services We have long been known for our Application Support Services. We are fortunate to have deep customer relationships where we are supporting applications ranging from the age-old, but still popular Peoplesoft to domain-specific solutions like Salesforce’s Veeva for the healthcare sector. But over the last few years, I have noticed […]
Enhancing returns on data analytics investments As enterprises started seeing visible impact from their data analytics efforts, the ambitions of their data analytics programs grew. CIOs started looking at all the data sources scattered around the enterprise and wondering what it would take to utilize all that data. Data integration was the first step as […]
Enterprise adoption of SaaS applications There is very little doubt that enterprise adoption of SaaS applications is growing at an accelerating pace. There’s already a long line of legacy applications that are looking to transform themselves into cloud-native avatars. Business leaders everywhere swear by the economy, scalability, accessibility, and flexibility they get by turning to […]
Migrating enterprise applications to the cloud IDC projects that about half of all organisations were looking to replace their current enterprise applications over the next 3 years. Many of those were looking to move their applications to the cloud. In fact, they project that about 66% of all enterprise application spending in 2027 will be […]
Growing complexity of cloud infrastructure Earlier this year Oracle surveyed over 1500 IT leaders from enterprises in several technology-focused markets including India. Perhaps surprisingly for some, 98% of Indian enterprises in the survey confirmed that they were using 2 cloud service providers and 33% were actually using as many as 4 cloud providers. The complexity […]
Role of infrastructure in Digital Transformation The early narrative about enterprise digital transformation was framed in very ambitious terms. The conversation was about how enterprises could adopt new (at the time!) digital frameworks to innovate completely new business models and dramatically change long-held ways of working. Over time, those ambitions were scaled down just a […]
Reality of the extended workplace A recent survey suggested that as many as 95% of Indian enterprises will continue to implement work from home to some degree over the year as well. I’m not sure of the sample size and the demographics included in the survey, but let’s agree that remote working will continue for […]
Managing cloud costs Nearly half of the 1000 respondents to a survey said that their cloud costs were higher than what they expected. Another 100 said that they were way higher than they expected, meaning that 6 out of 10 companies were spending more than they expected on their cloud. To an extent, those organizations […]
Expectations from technology partners What do mid-sized companies want from their technology partners? Given that we have been fulfilling this role for over 20 years now, I guess I’m as well placed as anyone to answer this question. So, let me give it a shot. Most of the leaders I meet are acutely aware of […]