NEED FOR INNOVATION, ESPECIALLY IN A CRISIS

“Necessity is the mother of invention” – Plato

Necessity is the main force behind every new invention and discovery. During the time of a crisis, a human mind finds some way or the other to come out of that precarious situation.?This often led to some of the greatest inventions in human history. Right from the first revolutionary invention of a wheel some 4500 BC ago, there are innumerable inventions that saved mankind time and again and helped it move forward and flourish during crisis times. This pandemic, particularly the past 18 months have triggered many companies for a faster change towards digitization and automation allowing them to be resilient in these adverse times.?The important lesson during this pandemic has been that a truly transformative change can be achieved especially if that change is driven by necessity.?During the midst of the pandemic, many businesses might have had to come to a complete halt if not for the cutting-edge solutions from the tech industry.?

Let’s take a look at 3 major software innovations that saved the day during this time.

Cloud Native Platforms:

While cloud computing has already been established as the main foundation for agility and flexibility for any business, the pandemic has only accelerated its use and has been a key factor in transformation of business models and customer experience that companies needed to adhere during the pandemic. Most of the cloud enabled solutions do not utilize the full potential of the cloud.?One of the major benefits of the cloud is the flexibility you get in terms of capacity. Unlike a private datacentre where you have a fixed infrastructure, cloud infrastructure allows you to expand or reduce as and when needed. But it still needs some work to increase / decrease the infrastructure. The cloud native platform is built around the idea that things will fail and you could lose hardware anytime and are designed to be fault-tolerant and self-recovery. A true cloud native solution is built to scale out / in based on different workload without any human intervention. A cloud native solution has no affinity to underlying hardware. If a hardware system fails, they are designed to reject the same and move to the next available hardware, often seamlessly without any human intervention. Cloud Native Platforms sit at the intersection of cloud and DevOps which enable organisations to build software faster and by virtue of that, they can deliver better customer experience. Cloud Native Platforms enhance developer productivity and finally they allow enterprises to build highly elastic and resilient applications. Cloud native platforms are fundamentally changing the way businesses are building and delivering digital services.

Distributed Enterprise:

With the traditional office centric environment getting completely disrupted, thanks to the pandemic, a distributed enterprise is a reality that a lot of companies are waking up to, giving rise to remote and hybrid working patterns. Distributed enterprise is the result of hybrid and remote work but also increasingly consumers are using the services and products in remote ways as well as in person.?The rise in hybrid work and distributed work patterns demand new digital services.?To get started with distributed enterprise, you really need to create digital workspace collaboration capabilities that are location independent.?Often this requires investing in cloud collaboration and work space technologies to create a blended work environment.?Organizations are forced to plan how this is going to impact their workers, their partners and customers everywhere as all these entities are now remote. Many enterprises have to adapt their business model to these remote-first cultures or a virtual-first culture which are here to stay.?The first thing they have to do is to make sure that they have tools and processes and techniques to reduce employee fatigue and burn out and they have to fundamentally redesign their collaboration tools, security tools, their workspaces and processes to really match the new hybrid environment.

AI Engineering:

Artificial Intelligence is branch of computer science which makes computers think and act like humans and is the most transformative opportunity in business and IT today.?During the pandemic time, we all understood the role AI played - especially in expediting the vaccine development and trials.?However, the challenges for a lot of organizations today is AI projects are characterised by very high failure rates. So, they’re trying to reconcile these realities which is on one hand they are super excited by the potential that AI has but at the same time they are also trying to mitigate some of the failures that they are experiencing in their environments. And we believe AI engineering is the answer to it in the sense AI engineering is a discipline of operationalizing AI models using better integrated data pipelines in a more automated model development with very strong governance built into it and also automating the deployment of these models into production environments.?Businesses are now thinking ahead and they want to understand how they can?operationalize these AI models, how they can make sure that these models are getting?datasets and continuously evolving with new business use.?AI engineering aims to provide a framework and tools to proactively design AI systems to function in environments characterized by high degrees of complexity, ambiguity, and dynamism. The discipline of AI engineering aims to equip practitioners to develop systems across the enterprise-to-edge spectrum, to anticipate requirements in changing operational environments and conditions, and to ensure human needs are translated into understandable, ethical, and thus trustworthy AI.

Never would we have imagined that an infectious virus would be the greatest catalyst for the rapid digital transformation.?

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