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N TODAY ’ S CONNECTED business environment , it has become easy for organisations to use a myriad of applications that fulfil different functions .

The risk of this is that the company does not have a unified view of its solution footprint potentially resulting in the rise of shadow IT . Given the normalisation of a distributed work environment , this is a significant cause for concern . It has therefore become imperative to have a single , connected solution that manages business operations as effectively as possible .

Moving beyond the security concerns that the increasing number of applications bring to the company , the lack of cohesiveness means there is no integrated technology platform in place to deal with future growth .

Over the last 16 months , the focus has mainly been on keeping the lights on regardless of the long-term impact this could have . The immediate priority was to get remote employees operational as quickly as possible . Invariably , this resulted in gaps forming between corporate best practice and home network reliability .

Fortunately , many companies have accepted that the ‘ new normal ’ is going to be part of business for the foreseeable future .

As such , the stop-gap measures put in place are being replaced with a cohesive business application approach capable of not only meeting today ’ s challenges , but also delivering in the future needs of the organisation .

While disconnected processes , systems and people can hold any business back , it is especially organisations who have been sitting on the fence when it comes to Digital Transformation that must move fast to adjust to a more integrated application environment . The challenge lies in successfully bridging the

THE CHALLENGE LIES IN SUCCESSFULLY BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN AN EXTENSIVE LEGACY ENVIRONMENT WHILE EMBRACING COMPONENTS OF A MORE AGILE BUSINESS APPLICATION- CENTRED ONE .