legacy technology environments to leveraging cloud technologies . It ’ s about right workload in the right place for the right business requirements ,” says Davis . “ Today , our customers are managing IT environments that are more complex than ever as they manage distributed environments that consist of workloads or applications sitting on-prem and in private clouds , sitting out at public clouds , and now on the intelligent edge and with many different public cloud providers .”
The complexity and increasingly interconnected nature of enterprise software and the businesses that software supports is at the heart of Davis ’ second core truth : “ Digital transformation strategy needs to be holistic , because it ’ s not just about the technology ,” she insists . “ One of the first things I ask our customers is what their corporate strategy is . Technology should be leveraged to help drive the overall corporate or government strategy of the company . Corporate strategy and technology need to be connected . Today , every company is a technology company .”
In a landscape where technological innovations move from the theoretical
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