IT leaders must bring data into a single unified platform to fully reap digitisation benefits. Credit: Getty Images Clients are becoming more outcomes-focused, judging the purchasing value of our solutions and services against the value of the outcomes they seek. Technology Solutions’ dominant model revolved around hardware products. Providers sell solutions that clients incorporate into their own operations. While this model is not diminishing, new cloud-based software technologies are changing business needs and competitive realities are giving rise to alternative technology solutions business models. The beauty of software is that it can help connect businesses to business priorities such as profitable growth, better experiences and cost, and optimization. Software is starting to run through everything from on-premises to remote services and enables automation, analytics, insights and cybersecurity. Vendors pack their software with amazing technologies and capabilities. With so much choice and a variety of software-defined services, the challenge is bringing all the data together into a single, unified platform. Using a common foundation to cut through a multitude of complexities Multiple technologies, technology vendors, hardware- and software-driven infrastructure and assets coexist to form an intricate technology landscape. This complexity makes it difficult to achieve the main goals of digital […]