Etisalat highlighted the need for organisations to be future ready through digital transformation during it participation at the recently concluded Gartner Symposium ITxpo.

During his presentation at the event, Francisco Salcedo, Etisalat’s senior vice president of Digital Solutions, re-emphasised Gartner’s message on the gradual shift of IT spending moving out of chief information officer’s (CIO) control and going towards digital business.

He highlighted the changing role of CIOs to CDOs and the need for IT and business alignment.

The importance of businesses evolving digitally in order to meet the rapidly changing and highly customised needs of the digital consumer was also presented.

“It is becoming particularly important for businesses to join the digital revolution to provide timely, valuable, radically customised and simple services to consumers wherever they are, and to move to real time operations with Internet of Things (IoT) solutions,” said Salcedo.

With the ‘Internet of Me and Internet of Things, it is becoming imperative for CIOs to be ready to provide IT as a Service (ITaaS) within the organisation as opposed to traditional methods, he said.

It is therefore important for CIOs to leverage on flexible, scalable, reliable and secure Cloud services.

“Through trusted partnerships, CIOs can continue to focus on adding value to their businesses, while leveraging on the expertise of a trusted partner like Etisalat which has undergone the Digital Revolution journey,” he added. - TradeArabia News Service