JUNE 2019CIOAPPLICATIONSEUROPE.COM8IN MYOPINIONhis quote is daunting and exciting at the same time. The speed at which technology is being developed and demanded by consumers imposes immense challenges as well as opportunities for companies and their CIOs. The transformation to the Intelligent Enterprise is no longer a choice, it is the backbone of today's' corporate strategies. CIOs are in the driver seat to propel companies towards the digital future. What CIOs generally share is that the current IT reality still differs from the headlines and the technology buzz. We are managing some very common difficulties: broken business processes across the value chain, various platforms with unaligned data sources, multiple infrastructure layers with high TCO, just to name a few. So, what will accelerate IT towards the digital augmented future? It is the Intelligent Enterprise, flanked by Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Virtual and Augmented Realities. What does Intelligent Enterprise actually mean? The purpose of IT organizations is to deliver and run the Intelligent Enterprise. What do I mean by that? Let me use a comparison that has been made before and that is the perfect The Road Towards the Intelligent Enterprise TFLORIAN ROTH, CIO , SAP SE "Change has never been this fast and it will never be this slow again." Bill McDermott, CEO SAP SE
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