Key Highlights
Sathyaseelan P. A.
Sr. Director, Enterprise Solutions, DellSathyaseelan of DELL describes an efficient enterprise—one that is simple in infrastructure and set up, easily managed, and where deployment, running and management is simple.
According to him, there are two ways to look at the present slowdown. It can be the best times for a company if it has sufficient capital that it can utilize for such projects which it could not have been accomplished otherwise, especially in times of economic downturn. At this point, the customer’s needs need to be met first, and this is the most prudent business call for today.
The need of the hour is to run an operation faster, efficiently and cheaply. Companies are looking for answers for optimization that can help CIOs cut costs, and the tools that can help run the enterprise more efficiently.
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Amit Chatterjee
Managing Director, CA IndiaAccording to Amit Chatterjee of CA a few ways in which CIOs can accomplish maximum value with minimum costs at a time like this is by identifying the projects with maximum ROI. He prefers to call it doing the ‘right thing’. Once a decision is made, implementing the process could be a much less expensive activity, if automation is used.
There are also tools and technologies used to achieve this, CA provides technologies that can help ensure that process implementation tools are optimally utilized. There are several ways to cut IT wastes. A company should avoid procuring unnecessarily. This way, a lot of the resource wastage is also avoided. Here, automation could be just the thing, enabling the CIO to concentrate on strategy issues, while the processes can be easily automated. CIOs can also cut wastes by automating internal running processes, which helps avoid resources’ time and skill.
CA has been evolving a portfolio with both organic and inorganic growth. It helps to maximize value and minimize costs, offering a unique solution that gives a single window operation.
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Sandeep Menon
Country Head, NovellSandeep Menon of Novell says the entire IT space is an arena of change today and there are many upcoming trends that are significantly game changing, and are likely to dictate how people will interact with technology.
One of the mega changing trends he extensively spoke of is end-user computing. Though there are constant technology improvements, they have not really changed the regular desktop. Any change in desktop technologies would have widespread and profound implications for enterprise too.
He is confident that cloud computing is the way to go. The companies will have to rethink the way they compute, and the strategies for improving it. “The desktop that we know today is destined to be the future trash box,” he added.
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