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Rajesh Dhar
maildqindia@cybermedia.co.in

Flipping the IT Department on

its Head: digital Enterprises

move to IT as a Service

As the pace of technology change accelerates, businesses that want

to remain relevant are transforming how they do business. In order to
stay competitive in today’s ever-changing economic landscape, they are
rethinking their old models and processes and reinventing business systems

ne area that we are seeing significant IT landscape has changed dramatically. Put plainly: IT
transformation is within company IT departments now have competition. They can no longer
departments, which are increasingly moving survive as isolated technical gurus standing as the
O to an IT-as-a-service (ITaaS) model. Just gatekeepers of IT for their organisation.
as consumers have a multitude of choices for where In the new model, IT becomes standardised, consoli-
they shop, businesses now have numerous options dated and virtualised and is offered as a service. IT of-
for sourcing IT to help them get their work done the fers a catalog of software services and hardware con-

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