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In the digital age, cloud computing has become one of the most essential tools for long-term market success. Enterprise-ready cloud platforms are lowering the barriers to digital transformation and delivering the technology foundations to power a new breed of intelligent enterprise. These future leaders are perceptive, agile, and responsive in ways that have never been possible before, redefining the business of manufacturing and helping to unleash a new wave of industrial innovation.

To thrive in today’s world, manufacturers are faced with several uniquely modern challenges. Business customers expect them to deliver great products in the moment, turning on a dime to meet fast-changing consumer needs at high quality and low cost.

For the aspiring intelligent manufacturer, the path to the future starts with a proven cloud platform capable of powering complex industrial operations at global scale. This modern digital foundation must offer a seamlessly integrated environment for applications, processes and data that enables new levels of insight and business agility, helping manufacturers unleash innovation across the organization.

Join the ET Unwired Session SAP on Azure: Unleash the power of Cloud for Intelligent Manufacturing powered by Microsoft to learn how to build best-in-class digital solutions for your enterprise, Microsoft and SAP are in a unique position to help manufacturers claim the promise of the future.

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Software controls much of the world we live in, but huge corporate investments in the process of software development have been hugely disappointing. Those investments were supposed to increase productivity and operational efficiency, improve business agility and customer engagement and more. But as time goes on, dissatisfaction with the ROI from these investments grows. BCG reports that 70% of digital transformations fall short of their objectives, with incumbents still getting disrupted. The App Direct Survey result reveals that 90% of these enterprises said they face significant obstacles in their digital transformation journeys.

Large entreprises face unique challenges. They have the inertia of big ships. Here are a few notable ones:

• Unlike digital natives, large incumbents have an application and infrastructure footprint. They have everything from mainframes, containers, Kubernetes etc.  and next gen smartphone apps.
• Processes and practices vary across the environment, making governance a huge challenge.
• You have a range of disconnected products in your toolchain. They don’t span the life cycle and they don’t scale beyond the team level to meet the needs of Fortune 500 customers.
• Not only are teams and tools siloed, so is the data. Often data is not integrated into a data lake. Even when it is, it is not curated to produce, role-based insights, so that all the key personas can know what they need to know to do what they need to do. We don’t often see serious use of machine learning to provide predictive insights and help make decisions to get to the next level of performance and application development and delivery.

Digitizing your business is not enough. Businesses must do that, and more to become a digital business. Businesses must transform and reinvent their business to and maximize customer value. Digital transformation involves the goals that enterprises set for the digital transformation, the outcomes they seek. DevSecOps is the key to achieve this transformation, where security and continuous testing pays an important role from reliability and quality business value delivery.

Currently there are wo trends are emerging to help businesses drive greater return on investment for digital transformation initiatives:

• Organizations are moving from disparate toolchains to value stream delivery platforms/VSM with fewer moving parts and much tighter integration and orchestration between them.
• Platforms are providing a powerful intelligence layer that is end-to-end and analytically complete. The platforms support descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics. But it needs to do more.

VSM is a set of lean principles and practices that optimize the application of people, process, and technology to improve the flow of business value continuously, from ideation to customer delivery. In 2020, the pandemic made every organization realize the need to become a digital business. Since then, the accelerated rate of change has pressured organizations to become extremely agile. Accomplishing this goal requires aligning business and development value streams to operate together with a shared mission, vision, and cadence.

Dharmesh Parekh
Executive Vice President & CIO
Protean eGov Technologies

Haresh Hiranandani
Senior Vice President – Head Digital Transformation
Kotak Mahindra Bank

Sourabh Chatterjee
Senior President & Head – Technology, Web Sales & Travel
Bajaj Allianz General Insurance

Sunil Shah
Vice President – Asia Pacific & Japan
Digital.ai

Ankush Gadi
Director, Director Data Management & Analytics Growth, Innovation and Excellence Hub
CRISIL
Moderator

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A strong credit score is important in assessing the credit worthiness of the borrower for timely disbursement of loans by financial institutions. In the absence of a good credit score, there is a huge probability of a bank/ a financial institution turning down the loan. What does it take to maintain a good credit score consistently and what processes should a borrower/ customer adopt?

The virtual roundtable on ‘CIBIL score and Report Awareness’ will help one to understand the nuances of what goes into having a good credit score’

Target Audience

Representatives from:

• Banks and NBFCs
• Fintech Companies
• Students Community and Academicians
• Manufacturing Companies
• MSMEs
• Retail Community

“Unlike the objective of far too many companies, manufacturing is not about a quick ‘exit’. It is centered on long – term value creation” – Hamdi Ulukaya

With the global pandemic in the last 3 years, a lot has changed, and every industry has been impacted in its own way – small or big. The way we operate and strategize has changed drastically and adoption of technology has happened overall impacting the economy. In order to strive and thrive in the industry, we need to have a sharp eye on every trend and innovation coming up which can be of use to us and help us outstand.

Business complexities have also increased drastically, and as an output to the global circumstances and industry leaders need to focus on the resources and optimization of production to create new and better business opportunities. With rising fuel costs, labor and land coupled with changing customer preferences, profit margins are impacted. These factors are forcing manufacturers to identify ways to reduce cost and increase yield. This brings to the fore an opportunity to leverage IOT technology to the floor and digital tools are needed to deliver the next productivity leap.

Addressing these challenges, Join The Economic Times Live Webinar on Business Proofing in the changing economy, on 5th May 2022 ( 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM) powered by Amazon Internet Services Private Limited(AISPL) , Websym and Knowlarity Communications Private Limited ( AWS Partners) , to discuss the various aspects of Business continuity and resilience in the right ways. We will discuss key challenges, future focus, and leadership perspectives on the future of manufacturing.

Key Outcomes from the session:

• Understanding the practical impact of Increase in industrial equipment and its effects on the performance
• How to plan strategies to control costs and manage the best quality of products
• How to boost efficiency in the most critical scenarios

Ashish Nene
CEO
Websym Solutions

Jaideep Kumar
Chief Sales Officer
Knowlarity

Subhash Chandra
Head, ISV Partner Development
AWS

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“Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves”
– By Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of the World Wide Web

Data and Cloud are the engines of every organization in today’s VUCA world, but they have a wholly distinct and greater significance for the Finance function. With the constant need to evolve with the circumstances and vulnerabilities of the world, shifting regulatory requirements, keeping up with the technology and innovations, leaders need to cope up with a lot, while protecting what they have curated. Having a strong and Modern Data Cloud Strategy can help empower the leading financial institutions embrace the challenges while evolving in the business.

It leaders – as the decision makers – from the BFSI sector or the Financial Services have to tackle multiple challenges like Improving data security, regulatory reporting, enterprise wise data governance, etc in order to achieve the organization’s goals. The Financial Services Data Cloud is more like a connected network which can empower finance leaders to thrive in the data intensive and highly regulated, competitive environment.

Join us at the Economic Times Digital Round Table to understand the deeper meaning and answer to all your questions regarding the Data and Cloud challenges.

Learning Outcomes from the session:

• Key learnings on creating Modern Data Cloud Strategies for your organization
• Creating Unified Data Governance and Security Systems
• Building an Intelligent Infrastructure to cope up with today’s times.

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics are increasingly driving innovation in operations and contributing to boosting top and bottom-line outcomes. From being restricted to speeding up innovation in back-end operations, AI and robotics are now getting integrated to drive value at the ‘front of the house’, to much success. How are organizations leading this change in deploying robotics technologies to boost productivity, provide usable real time intelligence and enhancing customer delight? What is the impact on operating cost vis-à-vis improved efficiencies realized by digital transformation and integrated technologies? What are the pitfalls to be cognizant of? The webinar will endeavour to talk through the influence and future scope of innovation driven by adoption of AI and Robotics technology.

The confirmed speakers on the panel are

• Thomas Normark, Global Head of AI & Robotics, Innovation Technologies, NTT DATA Business Solutions, Denmark
• Theresa Kushner, Senior Director, Data and Analytics Solutions, NTT DATA Services

Rashmi Tiwari
Director – Technical Architect, Automation & AI
Thomson Reuters

Ms. Theresa Kushner
Senior Director, Data and Analytics Solutions
NTT DATA Services
Moderator

Thomas Normark
Global Head of AI & Robotics, Innovation Technologies
NTT DATA Business Solutions, Denmark

Mr. Vikas Jain
Joint Managing Director
PMV Maltings Private Limited

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Moving to the cloud is an important step for many organizations and majorly it taken by the C-suite decision making of any organization. This leadership is not just interested in short term goals but more concerned about the long-term strategic business objectives, hence the migration to the cloud is not just an IT transformation decision but it’s a business transformation one.

To reap the full benefits of moving to the cloud organizations need to face major challenges along the way that are as unique as the workloads you run and how much of your on‑premises operations you want to move to the public cloud. Before organizations even think about cloud, they need to understand all the requirements of their workloads—and how to support those requirements in the cloud—to help in deciding whether a public cloud destination makes sense.

Nearly every enterprise is using the public cloud in some fashion, with the majority opting for a hybrid cloud solution. Organizations recognize the benefit of having the public cloud integrate and work seamlessly with their on‑premises infrastructure while taking advantage of their existing teams, skillsets, tools and processes. This enables your technology team to manage multiple environments with one tool set and eliminate the need to learn (or additionally hire for) different tools, management frameworks, platforms, processes, security policies and more. They can migrate applications from a private cloud to a public cloud and vice versa.

Join The Economic Times CIO Forum powered by VMware and Wysetek to understand how you can gain enterprise‑grade capabilities including availability, performance, manageability and security. No matter where you are in your cloud journey with respect to attaining your cloud‑fit or cloud‑first goals,

Discussion will also cover the six challenges for achieving desired cloud outcomes:

• Flexibility: Scaling up and down as needed with agility and choice
• IT Skills Gap: Keeping your technical team current with the right expertise
• Cloud Readiness: Readying your workloads for cloud services
• Data Sovereignty and Security: Navigating cloud security requirements across multiple countries
• Digital Transformation: Deciding whether to keep or upgrade existing infrastructures and applications
• Investment Security: Considering variables such as efficiency, cost- effectiveness, and available resources while driving innovation

Abhrajit Ray
Partner – Cloud Transformation
Deloitte Consulting India

Anant Deshmukh
Cloud Solution Architect
VMware

Bosco Remedios
General Manager, Technology Solution Division
Wysetek Systems Technologists

Dhawal Pandya
Corporate CIO
Piramal Enterprises

Lalit Varshney
Managed Partner Leader -West
VMware

Prasanna Lohar
Head Innovation
DCB Bank

Rahul Nalawade
General Manager – Sales
Wysetek Systems Technologists

Rajgopal Nayak
Chief Technology Officer
Metro Brands

Sonia Ahluwalia
Director Cloud Sales
VMware

Dr. Sourav Dutta
Executive Director IT
IDBI bank

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With data growing exponentially, enterprises handle massive amounts of business-critical data. They require storage systems that are highly scalable, offer unlimited connectivity & support multiple platforms. There are multiple approaches to data storage to choose from, including SANs, NAS, DAS and cloud storage. Newer approaches and technologies that are currently disrupting the market include hyperconverged storage and flash technologies such as NVMe. This trend stems from the increased amount of horizontal scalability and reduced latency these methods offer. Storage for containers is also becoming a stronger selling point, as well as enterprise storage based on composable and disaggregated infrastructure concepts, which combine individual resources at the hardware level and then assemble them at the software level by using APIs.

In the era of digital transformation, organizations of all sizes are challenged to meet higher performance, agility, availability, and scalability requirements while staying within strict budgetary constraints. Adapting to the demands of digital transformation is not a choice anymore, at least for the organizations moving towards data-centric business models. To best support the business on its digital transformation journey, IT must be able to respond faster to take advantage of changing market conditions and new business opportunities and enabling:

• increasing use of big data and analytics (real-time and otherwise)
• more personalized interaction with customers
• around-the-clock operations
• better use of innovation to drive competitive differentiation.

IDC says, ‘prompted by the demands of digital transformation, almost 70% of organizations are planning to modernize their server, storage, and/or data protection infrastructure in the next several years and are looking to specific technology to help streamline IT infrastructure while meeting all these new requirements”. These technologies include SDS, cloud, cybersecurity enhancements, NVMe and AI/ML.

Driving Business Value Storage:

• Enabling development and business activities through enhanced storage availability and agility
• Improving employee productivity levels by delivering better application performance
• Reducing storage costs for running equivalent applications by leveraging increased access to flash storage, enhanced data compression and data deduplication capabilities, and extended storage life spans
• Requiring less IT storage staff time for day-to-day activities by improving performance levels and delivering new software-based management capabilities

Amit Vora
Head – Business Development
Dynacons Systems and Solutions

Aniruddha Mehta
Head – Information Technology / CIO
Prince Pipes & Fittings

Avadhut Parab
CIO
Parle Agro

Neilmani Sahu
Head IT
Jsw paint

Rajgopal Nayak
CTO
Metro Brands

Salendar Tomar
Lead Storage Business – Channels
Dell

Sheena George
Partner
EY India
Moderator

Yogesh Dadke
IT LEADER
ADIENT

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