Obsolete technology is the obstacle to digital transformation – Magazine-BIT Computing to everyone.

Among the more than 500 business decision makers and IT professionals in large companies surveyed, more than half (57 per cent) admitted that their technological infrastructure is having difficulties in keeping up with the unprecedented levels of demand that digitisation is bringing.

study was requested by Fujitsu to identify the main technological challenges that european companies face as they carry out transformations digital: future trends and strategies in terms of investment in the software SAP and Oracle, how to turn technological infrastructures, legacy and how to optimize the productivity.

The high level of impreparação identified is explained by the fact that the digital transformation, nevertheless present many opportunities, not yet having become the main priority on the agenda of companies. Fujitsu and CAP have discovered that a little more than 10 percent of companies look at themselves as leaders in digital transformation and only 17 percent consider that the digital is a matter of life or death for your business. Already 42 per cent believe that although this has an impact, other challenges, such as economic concerns, have precedence.

Ravi Krishnamoorthi, SVP and Head of Business Consulting at Fujitsu EMEIA, commented in a statement to be "surprising to see how few companies are currently reaping the benefits of the digital transformation, but it is encouraging to know that in the next 12 to 36 months, we will see a great progress. It is expected that companies move more and more of their workloads and applications to the cloud and that take significant steps to improve not only the agility of its business as well as the effectiveness of their budgets to IT. However, many organizations will try to survive by running critical processes in software development for decades, and that is beginning to yield before the pressure."

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technological Issues and cultural encimam the list of factors that prevent the digital transformation of moving forward – especially the technology and infrastructure aging of firms, the difficulty of integrating the digital in legacy systems and the challenges associated with driving cultural changes within their own structures, IT of the companies. For the respondents, the legacy applications in particular are considered a burden, being the main concern the negative effect that they have on the agility of the business, followed by what you require at the budget and technology that could be better used if serve to support the innovation.

However, the study confirmed significant changes in the way in the next three years. Currently, only 20 per cent of the companies questioned have migrated more than half of their applications to the cloud; however, this number is expected to more than double in the next 36 months. The implementation of process automation in robotics is expected to increase in 2017, with a view to increasing the reliability, speed, and focus on processes internal and external.