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THUO: Enterprise IT technology trends to watch out for

Sunday, January 06, 2019 — updated on September 23, 2020 - 4 min read

More and more Kenyan organisations are awakening to the reality that cybersecurity is paramount to their operations. FILE PHOTO | NMG

Every day we are confronted by emerging technologies that enchant us with the promise of increased productivity, more efficiency and less overhead costs. The advancement of digital technologies at the workplace has inadvertently put pressure on Kenyan enterprises to align themselves with emerging technologies to reap the benefits of digital transformation.

To participate in the digital economy, enterprises must commit to digital transformation by embracing key enterprise IT technologies. We will continue to witness the advancement of enterprise digital technologies. Let’s look at some of the trending digital technologies that rocked the Kenyan workplace in 2018.

With IaaS, organisations are achieving significant cost saving by cutting capital expenditures and adopting OPEX (pay-as-you-go) models by creating virtual instances of their entire ICT infrastructure on public and private cloud platforms. IaaS has also allowed organisations to achieve rapid scale and efficiency thus giving cloud adopters a faster time to market. A great deal of time, energy and resources are spent on managing on-premises technology infrastructures but with an infrastructure as a service model, organisation can focus their time, energy and resources on their core business. With SaaS business software is delivered on-demand and on a subscription basis thus allowing organisations to run more efficiently while focused on delivering value to its customers. SaaS provides value creation using resource sharing, standardisation of processes and centralised data.