We are living in an era of unprecedented change. Change brought on primarily by the advances of the technological age. Nowhere is this more evident than in the domain of business. Internet Technology (IT) has become a driving force behind successful business practices. As a result, there is an imminent need for an IT system that inherently adapts to rapid change. IT Automation presents a viable Solution.
With IT automation, it will be possible for business organizations to increase their agility hence dealing with sudden shifts in the market, changing customer behavior, emerging competition and constantly evolving technologies. It can also be useful in dealing with cascading mergers or acquisitions.
Increased agility allows for business processes that cannot only constantly change, but can readily adapt to change as it happens. It also means finding ways to leverage new information into more complex combinations than currently exist.
Not wanting to, throw the baby out with the bathwater, IT automation must be capable of including existing information from a variety of platforms, including legacy applications, mainframes and metadata. It will also be expected to maintain a data flow of information pertaining to customers and suppliers. Keeping the old and adapting to the new is why IT automation is the wave of the future.
One might argue that there is no problem with the current It systems have no problem. It is true that web services have enabled us to collect new data types from within and without the organization. RFID also promises higher levels of real time data transfers. Such data has to be collected, filtered and deciphered. Web services have enabled most of us to collect new types of data from within and without an organization. Companies have significantly improved data collection methods, with RFID promising even higher levels of real time data transfers. This improvement, however, has generated a new set of challenges in integration, collections, filtering and deciphering.
With all these apparent challenges it should be clear that remaining static on the current systems is not the way to the future. This is why many IT departments are challenged to react. What with the companies resources being too stretched to adapt fast. Such overworked IT departments only find consolation in shifting most of the burden to existing systems with people offering direction only. IT automation is not just another fancy word for the distant future. Automation itself sounds frightening to human existence! The need of the hour is to reassess the present working system. Any organization planning to go for automation needs to clearly lay down the rules and definition for its each and every department. It will be similar to the present goal setting done for each employee at the beginning of every year. Examples cannot be copied but can be the basis of urgent brainstorming session of the employers. It is just like William Gibson says, The future is here. Its just not widely distributed yet.
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