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TRENDING “ WE’RE IN THE BUSINESS OF BETTER BUSINESS OUTCOMES, GIVING OUR CUSTOMERS THE ABILITY TO MAKE THAT END-TO- END STRATEGY A REALITY, DRIVING DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION WITHOUT THE FEAR OF BEING DISRUPTED THEMSELVES. when bringing new products and services to market • Transformed organisations are 2.5 times more likely to believe they are in a strong position to compete and succeed in their markets over the next few years • Transformed companies are 18 times more likely to make better and faster data-driven decisions than their competition and are twice as likely to exceed their revenue goals “Data is the new competitive edge, yet it’s become highly distributed across the edge, the core data centre and cloud. Organisations realise they have to move quickly to turn that data into business intelligence requiring an end-to-end IT 26 INTELLIGENTCIO infrastructure that can manage, analyse, store and protect data everywhere it lives,” said Jeff Clarke, Vice Chairman, Products and Operations, Dell Technologies. “We’re in the business of better business outcomes, giving our customers the ability to make that end-to-end strategy a reality, driving disruptive innovation without the fear of being disrupted themselves.” The ESG 2018 IT Transformation Maturity Study The ESG 2018 IT Transformation Maturity Study follows the seminal study commissioned by Dell EMC, the ESG 2017 IT Transformation Maturity Study, and was designed to provide insight into the state of IT transformation, the business benefits fully transformed companies experience and the role critical technologies have in an IT transformation. ESG employed a research-based, data-driven maturity model to identify different stages of IT transformation progress and determine the degree to which global organisations have achieved those different stages, based on their responses to questions about their organisations’ adoption of modernised data centre technologies, automated IT processes and transformed organisational dynamics. “Companies today need to be agile to stay competitive and drive growth, and IT www.intelligentcio.com