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Review and adopt
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he inaugural Smart SMB Summit held on the 26th of September at the JW Marriott Marquis was a resounding success in terms of attendance from mid-market companies. The takeaway message therefore seems to be that the mid-market is indeed quite keen to get on board the digital transformation bandwagon. Indeed that seems the only way ahead of doing business. From chatboats in your customer service to employing Robots to assist, from drill down real time insights via data analytics to moving workloads to the cloud with confidence, the shift unfolding is massive. The options are many for Businesses to digitally enable or transform at least some aspects of their Business processes. Some could suggest that there is more hype than what is warranted and while that maybe true to an extent, there is also the additional fear that you may just be adding capabilities that the company never needs to use, at least in the foreseeable future. Therefore, adoption of new technologies must need to be done with due diligence. What is certain is that at a given point in time, companies need to review their IT infrastructure, and if feasible move away from old technologies they may be using, which is in all likelihood slowing down productivity, towards cloud based deployments that takes away the CAPEX costs. They could possibly look at the most impressive technologies that could plug into their customer facing modules and bring a substantial change of performance. There is a growing breed of cloud services providers in the region. It might be possibly a good idea to explore if they offer solutions that can be a good fit for your Business. What better place than GITEX to have your conversations with Technology companies and their partners and have a better understanding of the solutions you need?
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