EMC workshop highlights IT’s role in driving Vision 2030

At the workshop, EMC highlighted industry-leading smart solutions to enable the public sector to make the government’s Vision 2030 reforms a reality.

EMC held the fourth edition of its annual public sector workshop, aimed at helping Saudi Arabia accelerate the digital transformation of public services.
At the event, EMC highlighted industry-leading smart solutions to enable the public sector to make the government’s Vision 2030 reforms a reality and transform Saudi Arabia into an economic powerhouse.
Hosted at the InterContinental Hotel in Riyadh recently, the event engaged over 100 IT leaders from across prominent public sector and government agencies in the Kingdom to outline the use of technologies to drive the future of services and service infrastructure.
A recent Saudi Arabia-based research by EMC exposes a concern among CIOs that their current IT infrastructure and the skills of their IT professionals may not be enough to meet long-term needs as technology becomes embedded across the business.
The findings indicate that 50 percent of respondents in Saudi Arabia believe that five years from now they will need to be able to launch new products, services and applications in half the time it takes them today.
Forty-two percent say that extracting value from greater volumes of data is the top IT challenge facing the business, with 26 percent expecting this to still be the top challenge in 2019.
By 2019, 29 percent of respondents believe their greatest IT challenge to be replaced by the challenge — and opportunity — of enabling real-time business operations.
Ranked second is the need to accommodate business unpredictability and the associated demands for rapid scaling; with 27 percent of respondents and 26 percent of respondents stating this to be their greatest IT challenge in 2016 and 2019 respectively.
The research also highlights a concern among respondents that their company will struggle to overcome these challenges and harness these opportunities.