What Is Digital Transformation?
Discover why modernizing your infrastructure is critical in today’s business environment for increased efficiency and productivity, competitive advantage, business sustainability, and improved customer and employee experiences.
Prepare for the Digitization of Everything
Businesses are facing immense pressure to identify new revenue opportunities, innovate solutions, and be more agile, both operationally and in the market. Now with access to more data and apps than ever before, enterprises are looking to harness and apply that data in new ways to leap ahead.
Additionally, a growing distributed workforce and the transition to a hybrid work environment present their own set of challenges. This transition demands stable, secure, and powerful technology which supports employees and protects the company and its data.
This combination has created an insatiable demand for more compute and the need for modern, relevant, and powerful infrastructure to meet this resource challenge. Yesterday’s technical foundation must evolve to deliver the new business models, use cases, and applications needed for next-gen business.
Digital transformation pushes the boundaries of what is needed from a technology foundation—intelligence, agility, performance, security, and resilience. Industry 4.0 is transforming business operations, converging IT and OT systems into shared intelligent compute platforms that eliminate data silos and provide access to deeper insights as well as greater flexibility and control.
More intelligence—enabled by edge compute, artificial intelligence, and workload convergence—is creating operational efficiencies, revealing business advantages, and driving new levels of customer engagement.
Deploying a modern, agile IT infrastructure designed for speed and scalability to handle the increasing volume and complexity of data across any environment is a must for organizations. This investment allows businesses to take advantage of fast-moving, cost-effective opportunities for digital business transformation.
Successful Transformation Stories Enabled by Intel
Using technology is the key to advancing critical business priorities cost-effectively and competitively. Learn how these customers and partners are pushing forward digital transformation.
Kingsoft Cloud: Accelerating Digital Transformation
Kingsoft Cloud’s new hybrid cloud storage products, based on Intel® architecture, help enterprises resolve data storage challenges with a reliable, high-performing cloud storage service that takes digital transformation to the next level.
Ping an Technology: Securing Federated Learning
China’s Ping An Technology, through technical collaboration with Intel, created a trusted execution environment (TEE) with hardware-enhanced security to support federated learning environments, breaking down data silos and improving AI model training.
Benefits of Digital Transformation
Today’s digital business landscape requires leveraging resources to deliver greater customer value. Technology is the invisible foundation that drives better customer experience, and therefore competitive advantage, for businesses today.
New Business Models
Technology is the underpinning for adapting to evolving market needs. It can help create new products, services, improved customer experience, and revenue models.
Streamlined Systems
Systems become more agile and capable of handling the influx of compute demands. At the same time, data processing is cohesive, clean, properly managed, and secure.
Unified Customer Journey
Customer, employee, and user experiences become unified, seamless, and frictionless. Value delivery is improved as a result of the transformation process.
Task Automation
Automation enables IT to spend less time on day-to-day management and more time on innovation.
Business Intelligence
Data analysis allows for greater insights about customer expectations and supports near-real-time decision-making.
Increased Efficiency
Increased cost efficiencies are realized through compressing time in business cycles like customer service, marketing, and product launches.
Forming Your Digital Transformation Strategy
Complexity is increasing based on different ways to consume cloud services across multicloud environments. Between distributed workforces, security requirements, and the need for real-time insights, strategically planning your investments can help ensure consistency in architecture across the entire data pipeline. Dive deeper into digital transformation with these resources to help inform your strategy.
The Heart of Digital Transformation
What’s inside the cloud affects performance. The cloud is the driving force behind companies’ digital transformation efforts.
HCI: Your Digital Transformation Building Block
Organizations that modernize their on-premises infrastructure for hybrid cloud can accelerate product development, speed innovation, and empower workers to be more productive.
The CIO Roadmap to Hybrid and Multi-Cloud
It’s important to review current cloud investments as a refinement strategy. This roadmap offers a personalized, actionable approach to hybrid cloud adoption that supports current and future-facing business and IT objectives.
Enabling Data-Driven Digital Transformation
See how Intel® Solutions, delivered through our partners, are helping financial institutions deliver next-generation services and new value to their customers.
IT Best Practices and Hot Topics
Get innovative ideas and groundbreaking strategies from IT industry experts at Intel.
Best Practices for Building Your Cloud Optimization Strategy
Get IDC’s take on the key steps needed to build the right optimization strategy for cloud.
Advancing Critical Business Priorities
Digital transformation success starts with the right foundation. The foundation is the blueprint for maximizing different technology capabilities across an organization for operational efficiency, data insight, increased productivity, and enhanced security. Explore the content here to learn how you can address these four key areas.
Enable the Agile Workforce
Deploy a hyperconverged Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) that can support hundreds of VDI sessions per node and help lower costs through server consolidation.
Key Investments to Power EX
Organizations are prioritizing the employee experience (EX) through technology as a retention strategy and competitive necessity.
Distributed Workforce Management
The new reality facing IT staff is how to support a distributed workforce, with or without the benefit of the organization’s intranet and its firewall protections. This video addresses how to deliver more compute power, business-class features, and troubleshooting support to remote users.
ESG Report: Hybrid Multi-Cloud Infrastructure Boosts Productivity
Employees experience greater productivity, and IT professionals can manage and secure employee devices from any location using VDI solutions on hyperconverged infrastructure from Nutanix and Intel.
Cloud Computing Strategies
Cloud computing is at the core of digital transformation. Learn how Intel is collaborating with leading cloud service providers to ensure that performance and security advancements are available in public cloud instances.
Cloud Strategy & Operating Model
From hybrid to multi-cloud environments, a cloud strategy and operating model provide a structured approach to priorities, measures of success, and provides a plan for deployment, ongoing management, and governance.
Right Talent for the Cloud
Having the right talent while managing cloud workflow policies and automation is a key consideration. Discover how one cloud team leader views working in the field.
HCI Solves Hybrid Cloud Challenges
In this MIT Technology Review article, learn how Azure Stack HCI optimizes manageability, performance, and costs, and how it integrates on-premises data center and edge infrastructures into a hybrid and multi-cloud environment.
Advanced Data Analytics Platform
Siloed data and disparate platforms cause fragmentation and incomplete information. As a result, it’s essential to build a modern data platform that can handle the volume, velocity, veracity, and variety of data.
End-to-End Data Pipeline
Creating an end-to-end data pipeline puts data in the right place for the right outcome. thyssenkrupp Materials IoT GmbH (tkMIoT), the largest materials distributor in the Western world, reduced downtime by up to 50 percent and increased production by 20 percent through streamlining their manufacturing.
AI and HPC: A Powerful Combination
Intel-enabled HPC, underpinned by hardware- and software-accelerated AI, is expanding the capabilities of researchers and data scientists and driving faster time to results and insights for the world’s largest data sets and complex models.
Securing the DevOps Pipeline
Recent cyberattacks have focused on build process vulnerabilities. Find out how to secure the DevOps pipeline to protect from these attacks.
T-Systems: Reliability for In-Memory Databases
Reduce database restart times from hours to minutes on an HPE Superdome Flex server with Intel® Optane™ persistent memory.
Six Pillars of Security
Cyberattacks are on the rise. Steve Orrin, CTO at Intel Federal, outlines the attack vectors and six pillars of cybersecurity and how Intel can help.
Three Keys to Security Going Forward
Security challenges are inherent in everything a business does, from employee productivity and team collaboration to sensitive corporate IP and data. Discover three keys to security going forward.
Partner Solutions
Only Intel offers the advanced features, unique platform capabilities, and verified solutions across a broad partner ecosystem to securely transform your business. Learn more about how Intel and its partners ensure seamless interoperability, consistency, ease, and speed of solution deployment for successful digital transformation and fast time to value.
Drive Digital Transformation with Intel and SAP
Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and the SAP Hana 2 platform are a powerful combination that can enable you to out-perform your competitors in today’s digital economy.
Digital Transformation with Intel and Red Hat
Deliver an open hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure to help drive digital transformation for your customers using the latest technologies from Red Hat and Intel.
Nutanix, HPE, and Intel Join to Deliver HCI Solutions
Nutanix® Cloud Platform™ software preinstalled on HPE® ProLiant® DX servers with the latest Intel® technologies combine to create a solution stack that simplifies your journey to hybrid multi-cloud.
VMware Hybrid Cloud: The New Multi-Cloud Operating Model
Evolve your cloud operating model for today’s hybrid and multi-cloud reality to maximize the benefits of cloud across multiple providers and environments.
Intel and Cisco Partner to Provide Hybrid Cloud Optimization
This IDC white paper details the numerous hybrid cloud advantages afforded by a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), a cloud-like platform for on-premises or edge environments.
Accelerate Your Digital Transformation with Intel
Intel® solutions are designed to accelerate your digital transformation today and tomorrow, helping you to establish the right foundation and select the right technologies to avoid disruptions and roadblocks along the way.
Edge-to-Cloud Digital Transformation
Intel provides the performance and security needed for digital transformation from edge to cloud.
Confidential Computing with Intel® SGX Is Enabling New Insights and Possibilities
Intel® Software Guard Extensions is the catalyst for unlocking business insights through privacy preserving AI.
Edge Video, AI, and IoT Actionable Data
This Intel and SECO technologies HPC solution enables AI, graphics, video, robotics, and other data-rich applications with edge performance, security, and durability.
Intel® AI Builders
Learn how solution providers are using the Intel® AI portfolio to help customers extract deeper insights from their data.
Intel® Select Solutions for Hybrid Cloud
Intel® Select Solutions for Hybrid Cloud bring all the advantages of cloud services to your on-premises data center in a simple and accelerated deployment option.
Intel® Select Solutions for Analytics
Gain faster time to insights with verified hardware and software stacks optimized for performance and flexibility. Intel® Select Solutions for Analytics are designed to conduct business operations much faster for the SLAs required for enterprise business.
Accelerate Your Digital Transformation with Intel
Intel® Solutions are designed to accelerate your digital transformation today and tomorrow, helping you to establish the right foundation and select the right technologies to avoid disruptions and roadblocks along the way.
Confidential Computing with Intel® SGX Is Enabling New Insights and Possibilities
Intel® Software Guard Extensions is the catalyst for unlocking business insights through privacy preserving AI.
Improve Efficiency and Value with VMware vSphere & Intel® Optane™ PMem
Expand memory capacity to support today’s larger datasets, and reduce TCO, by implementing a tiered memory solution using Intel Optane persistent memory with VMware vSphere.
Intel® AI Builders
Learn how solution providers are using the Intel® AI portfolio to help customers extract deeper insights from their data.
Frequently Asked Questions
Digital transformation is a process of improvement for streamlined business outcomes as well as customer, staff, and user experience. Effective, efficient, and secure data underlies every digital transformation initiative; this is why technology infrastructure and innovation play such a critical role in the process.
The primary driver of digital transformation is the awareness that every touchpoint with your company delivers an experience that either attracts or repels positive attention from your audiences, including customers, employees, and business partners. The price of not proactively initiating digital transformation is either potential marketplace obsolescence or talent drain. By understanding that brand experience rests on seamless processes and integrated systems as a competitive edge, businesses can see that digital transformation becomes a priority and an essential investment.
Nearly every company in any industry today has a digital element to at least its core operational functions. Accordingly, digital transformation is relevant to nearly every company regardless of vertical market, geographic location, size, degree of maturity, or leadership position in their industry. However, digital transformation is not a one-size-fits-all formula, given that each company has unique standards, requirements, and resources.
A good starting point for digital transformation is the degree of satisfaction customers have as a result of their experience with your company. Customers expect companies to be digitally present 24/7/365 for service requests, downloads, transactions, and more. Begin by assessing whether sales functions are digitally enabled, if customer touchpoints are personalized, and/or if customer requests are met immediately. If not, look for the gaps or limitations in your value delivery process, then evaluate your technology infrastructure and capabilities for operational efficiency in meeting customer expectations.
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