Tech in 2025: Security, Data Readiness, Maximising AI
As enterprises step into 2025 they will need to focus on three critical pillars to safeguard data and drive AI-transformations.
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As enterprises step into 2025 they will need to focus on three critical pillars to safeguard data and drive AI-transformations.
AI and machine learning offer exciting innovation capabilities for businesses, from next-level predictive analytics to human-like conversational interfaces for functions such as customer service. But despite these tools’ undeniable potential many enterprises today are unprepared to fully leverage AI’s capabilities because they lack a prioritised data strategy. Bringing siloed and far-flung unstructured data repositories into a single, accessible source is one of the enterprise inhibitors of being able to utilise AI effectively.
Public sector IT services are no longer fit for purpose. Constant security breaches. Unacceptable downtime. Endemic over-spending. Delays in vital service innovation that would reduce costs and improve citizen experience.
The demand for cloud-based ERP systems is gaining pace throughout the public sector. However, with support deadlines for existing on-premise solutions looming and widespread budget challenges, the pressure is on to find and implement the right solution as quickly as possible.
Recently 23andMe, the popular DNA testing service, made a startling admission: hackers had gained unauthorised access to the personal data of 6.9 million users, specifically their ‘DNA Relatives’ data.
Enterprise data has been closely linked with hardware for numerous years, but an exciting transformation is underway as the era of the hardware businesses is gone. With advanced data services available through the cloud, organisations can forego investing in hardware and abandon infrastructure management in favour of data management.
Enterprise data has been closely linked with hardware for numerous years, but an exciting transformation is underway as the era of the hardware businesses is gone. With advanced data services available through the cloud, organisations can forego investing in hardware and abandon infrastructure management in favour of data management.
Data centres now build redundancy into their infrastructure, allowing critical systems to continue running in the event of an outage.
Data centres now build redundancy into their infrastructure, allowing critical systems to continue running in the event of an outage.
Data centres now build redundancy into their infrastructure, allowing critical systems to continue running in the event of an outage.
IT teams within mid-sized organisations are over-stretched. Resources are scarce, with sometimes skeleton teams responsible for all aspects of IT delivery across large numbers of users. With up to 90% of the team’s time being spent ‘keeping the lights on’, there is minimal scope for the strategic thinking and infrastructure optimisation that business leaders increasingly demand. Yet without IT, businesses cannot function. And in many cases, there will be compliance or regulatory consequences in the event of a data breach.
Jason Kent, Director at Open Seas, a UK-based enterprise IT solutions company specialising in data protection and file synchronisation explores the top DFS-R issues and solutions for enterprise
ERP implementation has changed. And for those companies facing the 2027 maintenance deadline for SAP ECC 6, that is good news. In today’s cloud-first, ‘adopt not adapt model, there are no more white boards. No more consultants offering to customise software to meet any business need. And no more long drawn implementations – followed by expensive and disruptive upgrades and a complete loss of commitment to using technology to accelerate change.
Turning business data into business value is not as straightforward or clear as it appears on paper. But those who don’t will lag further behind their competition – potentially waking up to the fact that they are on the back foot when it is already too late.
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