{"id":10653,"date":"2021-04-13T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=10653"},"modified":"2021-01-05T08:56:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T16:56:32","slug":"digital-transformation-business-leaders-arent-prepared-for-it-modernization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/digital-transformation-business-leaders-arent-prepared-for-it-modernization\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Transformation: Business Leaders Aren&#8217;t Prepared for IT Modernization"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">60 percent of IT leaders of large and mid-sized businesses say that their companies just aren&#8217;t ready to move ahead with IT modernization, based on <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.ibm.com\/2021-01-04-IBM-Study-Majority-of-Surveyed-Companies-are-Not-Prepared-for-IT-Needs-of-the-Future-Say-U-S-and-U-K-Tech-Leaders?lnk=ushpv18nf2\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/newsroom.ibm.com\/2021-01-04-IBM-Study-Majority-of-Surveyed-Companies-are-Not-Prepared-for-IT-Needs-of-the-Future-Say-U-S-and-U-K-Tech-Leaders?lnk=ushpv18nf2\">survey results from IBM<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spearheading the modernization of businesses is a move to the cloud. 95 percent of leaders said that central to any modernization program would be to transition from on-premise applications and services to the cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itbizadvisor.com\/author\/archana_vemulapalli\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/itbizadvisor.com\/author\/archana_vemulapalli\/\">Archana Vemulapalli<\/a>, General Manager, IBM Infrastructure Services, said that &#8220;our clients are looking to accelerate IT modernization by leveraging cloud models &#8211; both public and hybrid, data, AI, automation and other key technologies to help shape, scale and manage more effectively massive, complex, global architectures.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While achieving transformation will likely require that some hurdles be jumped, the opportunity and benefits that are possible can be huge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Satya_Nadella\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Satya_Nadella\">Satya Nadella<\/a>, CEO of Microsoft, <a href=\"https:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/article\/4381922-microsoft-corporation-msft-ceo-satya-nadella-on-q1-2021-results-earnings-call-transcript\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/article\/4381922-microsoft-corporation-msft-ceo-satya-nadella-on-q1-2021-results-earnings-call-transcript\">said that<\/a> &#8220;The next decade of economic performance for every business will be defined by the speed of their digital transformation.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/billrmcdermott\/\" 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