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An application-centric approach to digital transformation

IDC technology spotlight

Published April 2016

In just a few short decades, IT has embedded itself into nearly every aspect of people's business and personal lives, fueled by 3rd Platform technologies including mobile, social business, cloud, and big data and analytics. Enterprises continue to adopt technologies and processes that are so tightly linked to their customers and markets that the boundary between the internal operations of the enterprise and its external ecosystem is rapidly disappearing. Business leaders are challenged to evolve their enterprises via digital business transformation, which employs digital technologies coupled with organizational, operational, and business model innovation to create new ways of operating and growing the enterprise.