The ‘State of IT Transformation’ report takes a look at more than 660 EMC and VMware enterprise customers across 18 industries, and identifies gaps, progress and goals in their current IT Transformation initiatives.
By focusing on data provided by CIOs and their direct reports who participated in a transformation workshop led by EMC or VMware, this analysis provides deep insight into the biggest goals and challenges for organizations who are actually in the midst of an IT transformation.
The full State of IT Transformation Report (PDF) can be downloaded here.
Where do Organizations Want to Improve Most in 2016?
Cloud Infrastructure
While more than 90% of organizations are only in the early stages of evaluating a well-engineered hybrid cloud architecture, and 91% of organizations have no organized, consistent means of evaluating workloads for hybrid cloud, 70% want to standardize on a hybrid cloud architecture across the organization within the next two years.
Operating Model
Running IT like a customer-focused business is a high priority for IT organizations, but 88% of companies have not begun, or are only in the preliminary stages of developing skills in business-facing service definition, and only 24% have a well developed service catalog in place.
Organizations recognize that collaboration is key to meeting customer expectations, with 95% of organizations expressing that having no silos and working together to deliver business-focused services at the lowest cost this is critical. However, less than 4% of organizations reported that they currently operate like this.
Agility is also critical to success. For over half of the participants it currently takes between a week and a month to provision infrastructure resources. The goal this year for 77% of participants is to be able to do this in less than a day, or dynamically when needed.
Applications
Accelerating application development is a high priority for CIOs this year. 68% of the organizations surveyd take 6-12 months to complete a new development cycle. This is likely due to the fact that 82% of the companies currently don’t have a scalable, infrastructure-independent application delivery framework on which to rapidly and consistently build mobile-friendly, cloud-native apps.
How does your organization stack up?
Are you curious about how the results changed by industry, or by geography? Read the full State of IT Transformation Report to see how your organization compares to your peers.
If you need assistance identifying the gaps in your own organization, and developing a comprehensive strategy and roadmap for moving forward, contact your VMware Advisory Services strategist or your local VMware representative today.
