The most important technologies powering digital transformation – TechRepublic
TechRepublic’s Dan Patterson spoke with Deloitte Consulting CTO Bill Briggs about which technologies are most important to companies undergoing digital transformation.
Watch the video, or read the transcript of their conversation below:Patterson: I wonder if you could enumerate some of the emerging technology that is no BS but is influencing digital transformation right now?”
Briggs: Yes. And at Deloitte, we do our annual tech trends report. We published it a few months ago, that has a nice view of what we think are the most important ones. It’s the ninth year we’ve done it so it has a nice little trend line, too, over the years. I do the shorthand especially with boards. If you say the last five years, cloud, analytics, and digital is the three big macro-tech disruptive forces.
And we’re not done by any means. We continue the journey, maximize the value behind those topics. By the way, they’re not independent, isolated things. The collision between them is so important. So those three in the last five, 10 years continuing on. The three I put in the middle that don’t get a lot of airplay but are so essential … core modernization this idea of how do we re-engineer the business of IT.
And we haven’t talked enough about cyber and risk. Put that in the front. A lot of compliance based activity. It’s something we build in the strategy from the … security privacy regulations or compliance … even reputation of risk the tech ethics are doing what we could do.