What Is an Autonomous Digital Enterprise?
The Autonomous Digital Enterprise is a forward-looking view of the future state of business, one in which agile, customer-centric, insight-driven companies evolve their operations to survive and thrive in the midst of persistent disruption. The Data-Driven Business is one of five technology-enabled tenets that galvanize and sustain the Autonomous Digital Enterprise.
Current Business Challenges
Forbes estimates that by 2025, more than 150 zettabytes of data will need analysis*, yet Accenture found in a recent survey of 190 U.S. executives that 81 percent of companies lack an enterprise data strategy to fully capitalize on their data assets.** There’s a reason for that lag. Getting your arms around all that data and using it to grow your business can present an array of challenges, including:
- Multiple teams, tools, processes, and sources of upstream and downstream data
- High failure risks, inability to scale, and difficult governance
- Expensive, inefficient monitoring and controlling capabilities
- Managing constant data streams fast enough to meet customers’ performance expectations
- Ensuring optimal performance and availability for existing services while continuing to innovate
How Technology Helps
The technology behind the Data-Driven Business includes AI and machine learning (ML) integrated with automation tools. Working together with human expertise, they combine to:
- Convert raw data into insights and actions
- Monetize data with insights, bartering, brokering, and business intelligence
- Ensure data compliance with data quality best practices
- Protect privacy with governance tools
- Automate workflows for improved visibility and control of the entire data pipeline
- Leverage predictive analytics to ingest, store, process, collect, and analyze data
- Use performance, management, recovery, and cost optimization solutions to keep mainframe-based applications running 24x7
Solving Business Challenges
We’ve identified select business use cases where a Data-Driven Business can solve for these challenges. Download the e-book to learn more.
