Confronted with a evolving macroeconomic and competitive landscape, Linda YaoOperation manager and head of the strategy, Lenovo Solutions & Services Group, provides that companies will focus on the derivation of more value of their IT expenses in two ways.
“The first is that they will require more flexibility in their operations, in terms of reducing their investments with the value they refer,” she says. “They will want more predictability in their cash flows, whether it means using technology to stabilize income growth or to save spending, or implement this technology in a way that allows payments of cash flow predictable.
“Companies will also focus on the IT deployment guarantee supports or directly stimulate business results. We will see more customers adopting it on the basis of the commercial results they wish to achieve, whether it is the front line line, the bottom line or hitting a specific customer experience, a sustainability, a sustainability Debit, a customer acquisition, a type of metrics. More companies will link their technological adoption to these measures rather than deploy and maintain technology in a vacuum.
“Consequently, inherited infrastructure expenses will move to expenses on new generation technology and develop quickly over the next five to 10 years while customers modernize or reorganize their computer stack from start to finish. This includes passing computer systems inherited to hybrid cloud, by adopting more virtualized and interconnected IT environments and avoiding traditional software licenses for highly personalized technology on demand. »»