In an era of massive technological development, digital records are pervasive in everyday life, from government, business and education to banking, healthcare and entertainment. While the huge investment of money, time and effort is made to create and bring information in the digital form, and everyone seeks to make great strides towards making digital information available in every society throughout the Middle East, as we do not have the ability to make this information available through generations of information technology, and make it available By using technology in the future, enabling people to determine whether they are real and reliable.

 

Despite these huge investments, digital transformation still represents the biggest challenge for many companies in the Middle East. The Digital Transformation Index recently published by Dell Technologies revealed that 90% of companies in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia face enormous obstacles that hinder their digital transformation initiatives. at present.

In order to overcome these obstacles, IT departments in governments and private sectors will have to hone their skills and reshape their entity in some cases. We will show you the four main axes that IT departments must master at the current stage as part of their quest to achieve digital transformation in the cloud era.

 

1) Real integration between data and application programs for electronic archiving
IT departments have traditionally focused on consolidation, but the real focus has been on network infrastructure. IT teams have integrated and aligned firewalls, routing switches, switches, servers and networked devices across local and working areas of the network and the Internet.

While IT teams are not yet fully integrated into the infrastructure, data and application software integration will be a priority in the context of the digital transformation of cloud computing. In addition to ready-made, specialized applications and internal databases, companies are constantly turning to a cloud-based architecture for sales, marketing and other customer or operational business services and archiving all of these services.

Therefore, IT departments will have to focus their future efforts on 1) the application software coming into the enterprise and 2) how these application software can integrate with the current mix of enterprise applications, cloud applications, and cloud services. For many in the field, this integration will be a platform, providing cloud solutions to connect dispersed applications used in different physical and cloud environments.

In addition to integrating applications and data, IT teams must provide users with a fully consistent experience when they use applications and services. This means that users only have to log in once on the network to access all the services and applications they need without having to log into every part or resource within the network. The IT team must find a way to manage identification and access rights across the organization.

2) Cyber security application
Digital transformation projects usually contain a number of new, unfamiliar technologies. In the process of implementing projects, the security and confidentiality of information is often ignored, especially if these projects do not require it in particular. IT staff must ensure that this neglect stops, and establish and implement a coherent approach to security in order to formulate and implement policies that:

Ensure and verify user identity to ensure that users are able to navigate between their applications easily and securely.
Establishing strict controls to ensure that users obtain the appropriate permissions for them to use the application programs.
Monitoring and auditing to ensure that users comply with legislation and duties imposed by the government, sector or company.
Asset management to ensure desktops, laptops, and devices do not become entry points for identity theft, ransomware, and other malware attacks.
In this context, it should be noted that browsers in this digital age have become an entry gate for many users, as the browser is considered the basic work tool for carrying out their daily activities, regardless of the type of device or browser used. For IT staff, the browser now faces the same security challenges as desktops, smartphones, and other device endpoints. IT teams should implement critical controls and improve browser security with equal attention to other areas.

3) Work in the cloud infrastructure
The advantages of using SaaS lead to many digital transformation initiatives, as SaaS projects typically require lower initial costs with faster configuration, implementation, easy upgrade, greater accessibility and better scalability than those implemented in the workplace. As the SaaS application is developed, implemented, and maintained for IT personnel, the industry no longer works with hardware infrastructure or infrastructure support. It needs fewer resources to deal with continuous development and management.

Cloud architecture takes software to a new high-speed level in application development and use in the cloud. In many cases, the ease and speed of application development in Amazon, Google, or other public cloud architectures is at the forefront of early adopters of SaaS.

IT organizations can prepare for stability in the cloud by assigning on-site reliability engineers to teams. It is a new mode that includes aspects of software engineering and applies it to its operational problems. Site reliability engineers must be vigilant and responsive