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services and thereby give a thoroughly integrated and aligned cloud landscape. offshore services. As a consequence main players should have the size and capability to manage both proximity and offshore developments and as a consequence more proximity services, which naturally is progressively reducing the demand for In Infrastructure and industrialization of the cloud, customers and especially mid-size customers are requesting more agile

of the main system integration vendors by 2020. a smooth implementation. Industry analysts expect this activity to represent half of the consulting and implementation revenue players of the market, as it demands deep understanding of the IT landscape, including its infrastructure components, to ensure solutions in large enterprises, still requires a strong consulting, and service arm. Large enterprises source this out to the key Regarding SaaS market, deploying, and integrating SaaS

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enterprise” Transforming ERP and business processes to achieve the “real time

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agility and high reactivity, this is no longer the case. were costly and lasted two or three years without major milestones in between; but with the increasing demand for powered environment. In the past, traditional ERP deployments their previous generation ERP, whilst supporting the utilization of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the migration to an analytics operations. Therefore they are now embarking on the digitalization of their business processes, and the replacement of Enterprises now consider that the benefits of real time information can improve the management of company implementation and roll out, and significant IT but also on the other side business benefits of real-time in-memory database Clients expect on one side significant acceleration of the disruptive challenges and opportunities across all industries. Some of this transformation will start happening by 2017, with management, for achieving a faster time-to-value. Technical evolution is driving change at an incredible pace creating the inclusion of AI (Artificial Intelligence) enabling capabilities within existing ERP, and the exploitation of big data and analytics to enhance internal customer experience. Atos expects an acceleration of leading players’ adoption of the new

traditional ERP systems license based declined by more than 30 percent, to less than US$15 billion. technology. In 2016, investment in ERP SaaS solutions were more than double, to US$78 billion or more, while investment in software portfolio around HANA. SAP’s HANA in-memory As an example of a leader in ERP, SAP has focused their strategy on HANA and Cloud, and consequently, engineered their entire database and the new generation of their S/4HANA, offers an operational framework to cloudify and digitalize business digital age. aspects, understanding their clients specific situation and able to respond accordingly, so as to pursue the path towards the new able to build a bridge between IT, ERP and business, and be able to balance technology with process, business and strategy based on a “one-stop shopping” approach. Only then will they be consulting, including business case analyses, to process and technology analyses to implementation and go-live support, leading “multi-service providers” will need to be able to deliver a customized end-to-end cloudified ERP support, from strategic processes, and an effective platform to support the progressive introduction of IoT. With no standard initial situation, future

Reinventing the workplace: towards a digital connectedworkplace

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access information, and requires the ability to communicate, and collaborate in a very different manner than previously. Disruptive Digital transformation has a strong impact on how workers will technologies such as artificial intelligence, augmented reality, machine learning, and the development of algorithms for big data, are entering the workplace and are significantly changing the nature of work, employees’ expectations, and business demands. The workplace service market, valued in 2016 at $US73 billion is expected to annually grow by 2-4% as enterprises keep looking its business objectives. The digitalization of the workplace is a complex endeavor that should be outsourced to providers with a for an environment with enhanced user experience that supports

workplace: 20-50% in different activities contained within the workplace. Main transformation occurs in the following segments of expensive offshore labor, and represent savings of about and is seen as a matter of survival for many enterprises. It is expected that RPA will cost only one-third as much as the least (RPA) is seen as the continuum of technologies that organizations utilize to automatize several process operations, services driven by disruptive technology will lead the workplace service market in the coming years. Robotic process automation customer-centered focus, capable of delivering technology while ensuring security and threat prevention. The inclusion of new

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