DR DEEPAK KUMAR SAHU
Editor-in-Chief, VARINDIA
“Digital transformation is inevitable, companies of all sizes are rethinking the entire business module to become truly digital, connecting end customers and enterprises seamlessly, getting digital transformation right requires the right structure and discipline for organization’s strategy and they will have growth maturity. Partner transformation is all about improving the customer experience, employee experience and business economics. In other words, it has become essential. For others, digital transformation is more than an enabler, something that helps to get desired value from the transformation agenda rather than running a disconnected transformation program that only spins and does not solve the problem.”
ATUL AHUJA
Sr. Vice President (Middle East, Africa & ASIA), Softline Group
“If you see digital transformation, technology initiatives for a market like India have been very, very native to the industries that have been. Banks are way ahead in adopting different technologies. Manufacturing customers have adopted not only digital transformation for themselves, but they have gone to their level 3 - level 4 distribution networks. They have even gone on the consumer side in a very different manner.
They now can track customers’ customers and the fourth level and so on. These business initiatives actually are being treated very differently from a technology perspective. Some of it is hybrid, some of it delivered as a SAS. A lot of these solutions which exist in the market today are converging irrespective of the service provider.”
RANJAN CHOPRA
Chairman & Managing Director, Team Computers
“The current situation is basically, do or die situation, either transform, or you are gone. What we see around us are new unicorns every day. Every company buys something and sells something. Look at the value of a digital transform company like Tesla.
The valuation is sky high to $1 trillion, for a company. It is amazing. They are making a car which will take you from point A to point B. There is no option for everyone to digitally transform rapidly, it starts off with people like us. We deployed ERP some 15 years ago as the first step in our digital transformation.”
AJAY SAWANT
Managing Director, Orient Technologies
“Most of the companies are adopting digital transformation, mainly from a strategic and cultural angle. And it is designed around people processes and technology. These are the three major factors that make that digital transformation possible. Most of the time the digital transformation is powered by technology but driven by people. Hybrid multi cloud environments are the way to go today in the market.
And we all have adopted that in our day to day life. The customers are more and more feeling that yes, we need to have something like that, which is basically nothing but everything as a service. We say IT-as-a-Service or Everything-as-a-Service; finally, we are leading towards as-a-Service.”
PRARTHANA GUPTA
CEO, Cache Digitech
“We work seriously on digital transformation to ease everything. You are sitting at home during your work and you can get anything and everything at home. This is the concept which we have started forcibly while transforming digitally. Our thoughts have changed a lot. It is very easy to do business like this. Google and Amazon are doing great on security. But the time has come for us also to start good security practices.
We have recently started in our organization network services or security as a service for customers and we have started getting good response from customers. Big companies are hiring people remotely right now. “
VIPUL DATTA
CEO, Futuresoft Solutions
“My take on this is a little different. That is not different in terms of accepting the fact that digital transformation is happening but the fact is it has happened. The consumer has adopted an online method of taking the product. The opportunity for all of us as an SI is that we have always struggled to create our own IPs. That's what we kept hearing about two years back. The opportunity lies in front of us as IP in services.
If we can create an IP services sector based on hybrid cloud, private cloud, or multi cloud on different verticals to offer specific customers with each vertical of customers. I see that as an opportunity for huge business growth in consolidation, but also see an opportunity for us to create IP in our own service domain.”
N. K. MEHTA
Managing Director & CEO, Secure Networks
“Either you die, or you digitally transform yourself. There's only one statement we can make. You see companies like General Electric tickets back then were one of the largest populations in the world. But today if you see nowhere in the top 50 also because the digitally transferred companies which started much earlier, like Apple, Microsoft, Google's they have taken over.
The same applies to all other organizations today. It is a question of mindset. COVID has just accelerated the journey. I think earlier CTO CIOs were flirting around with the idea of going digital and moving to cloud and COVID has forced them to marry. Security is a big thing and we have seen security as a big concern.”
