Digital transformation
DataMiner is a key enabling technology for your digital transformation, helping you thrive in a data-driven world.
Today's enabling technologies affect and change everything you are accustomed to in a business. All-IP, virtualized, and cloudified products create endless possibilities to build and shape a business in many ways. That is why it is an important strategic goal to build an agile operation that is prepared for the unexpected and able to adapt and evolve quickly.
Simply deploying all-IP or cloud-based technology will not magically launch an organization into the new era. How you use that transformational technology to empower your operations is what will make the difference.
Agility – the cornerstone of any successful data-driven media operation
While mankind is transitioning from one era into an entirely new one, the media and broadband industry too is going through existential transformations. But how do you keep up with these transformations?
While people are very much focused on technology, it is important to understand that a lot more is involved than that. Digital transformation is just as much about people and methodologies, and about how you leverage technology. In essence, you need to be Agile. This is the cornerstone of any successful data-driven media operation.
To learn more about Agile, refer to our DataMiner Dojo Community.
Adapt your organization to be data-driven
The digital age we are living in comes with wide-reaching, fundamental changes. To ensure that your organization can flourish, digital transformation is key. Key considerations are:
- Ensuring that your organization can easily and continuously transform its products.
- Easily and continuously optimizing your operation.
- Creating new innovative ways to engage with your customers.
- Ensuring that everybody in your organization can easily access and leverage any data available in the organization for various purposes.
It is much more important to consider your future ability to do all these things easily and continuously, rather than what exactly it is you will be doing. After all, the latter is unsure and unpredictable and will continuously change over time.
How you will transform your products, how you will optimize further, how you will engage with your customers and users, and how you will empower your employees with data: all of that will continuously change year after year. At the outset, what is crucial is how you will set up your business so that you will be able to do those things easily and continuously.
Being a truly agile data-driven operation involves much more than simply choosing the right technology and "putting that technology into place". For example, a lot hinges on how your operation is built and redesigned conceptually, and on how the entire operational technology stack is architected to create an agile operation. The latter requires careful consideration, as it is very easy to choose for the easy way forward and the path of least resistance, but that usually then also means that you completely give up on the essence of creating an agile data-driven operation, i.e. creating an operation ready to continuously evolve. Simply taking the business and operation of yesterday and transposing it into a new technology ecosystem will not suffice.
The success of a digital transformation also heavily relies on the effectiveness of the accompanying change management programs. These determine how well you prepare your organization for the changes involved in the transition, how well you manage adoption and mitigate risks, and – very importantly – how well you deal with the human aspects that play into all of this. Because after all, a successful digital transformation has a fundamental impact on all imaginable aspects of your existing operation and business, and the human factor in this is not to be underestimated, especially when you consider the inherent resistance to change of both people and organizations.
Many other things are also essential for a successful digital transformation. For more information, refer to Digital Transformation Archives. This includes:
What is digital transformation? Preparing an organization to be successful in a data-driven future translates into building an agile operation that can quickly shift and change directions to deal with the unexpected. To find out more about the key objectives, pitfalls, and essential ingredients for success, watch the video What is digital transformation?.
What are complex ecosystems? A complex system is an environment with a lot of interconnected components, which all affect and influence each other in many ways, so that it is very difficult to see how this system behaves as a whole. For more information on the mindset needed for success, as well as the strategy and methodologies required, watch the video What are complex ecosystems?.
What is agile? Agility is one of your keys to success. Find out more about the essence of agile, the common pitfalls, and how you can successfully become agile in the video What is agile?.
What about goals and requirements? When people and organizations set goals and objectives, they tend to immediately translate them into very detailed requirements. However, this habit no longer belongs in the age of digital transformation, where you face environments with infinite options and where the desired outcome is elusive. Find out more in the video What about goals and requirements?.
DataMiner Digital Transformation Suite
The DataMiner Digital Transformation Suite is your best stepping stone to digitizing processes across the media and broadband supply chain. The platform is highly configurable and scalable, and it meets the needs of the most demanding process automation and data exchange activities. Not only is the modeling of processes based on the industry-standard Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN by www.omg.org), the openness of the DataMiner platform comes to full fruition from its flexible data object modeling, integrated service and resource management, best-in-class data acquisition and control layer, collaboration services, AI-powered augmented operation, dataminer.services, and much more.
Go to Digital Transformation to find out more about the unique set of tools that DataMiner has to offer. For even more details, we highly recommend that you visit DataMiner Digital Transformation Suite on the DataMiner Dojo Community Platform. This includes:
- How to manage your data and automate your processes
- How to set up processes across business teams, operations, and ICT media and broadband technical teams, no longer isolating the business, operational, and technical processes, such as the deployment, monitoring, and orchestration of infrastructure
- The powerful and versatile data acquisition and control layer
- Collaboration across teams, suppliers, and customers to create endless possibilities (ChatOps, Dashboard Sharing, Custom Applications, and dynamic deployment of new APIs)
- Augmented Operation, powered by AI