IT teams today are struggling. They are struggling to keep costs down, manage ever greater complexity and support a business more demanding than it has ever been before. The IT department is being forced ever closer to the business as a strategic partner to help drive innovation and growth. New technologies like cloud computing, mobile, social and big data are helping to make this change a reality, but they are also putting an unprecedented strain on IT leaders.
The truth is that in many large organisations, underperforming IT legacy systems and outdated architectures have effectively tied one arm behind the CIO’s back – creating siloes, and blocking visibility into key systems and processes.