Economic uncertainty, supply chain disruption, trade disputes, fast-moving market entrants – add to that customer expectations for seamless digital experiences at all times.

How do you move forward and transform IT? How do you avoid downtime and service interruptions? What are the right systems, platforms and partners for your digital transformation journey?

There is no single starting point and there are many options for the journey ahead to technology and technological change but there are common traits and an interplay between people, processes, technology with organisational culture at the locus.

For digital business leaders & business enablers, secure IT transformation means moving toward scalable, reliable, open infrastructure that enables growth while mitigating risk to transform an organization’s business model, products and services.

People – harness strengths & foster a growth mindset

Creating a strategy to power secure IT transformation is only possible with broad corporate support. From our experience, organizations should start by aligning IT leaders, business executives, and the C-suite on the organization’s IT modernization and business continuity objectives.

Secure IT transformation initiatives almost invariably affect many departments and functions at your organization, spanning business units, nance, and IT. Make sure every stakeholder is aligned on objectives, the value of the target outcome, and their roles and responsibilities, both at the start of the project and during execution.

In identifying potential solutions, it is likely the team will need a mix of promising proprietary and open source platforms or products. Consider how each of these technologies can support the organization’s objectives, beyond a simple ROI calculation – determine which solutions best contribute to your goals, and anticipate the priorities of each stakeholder involved in the technology adoption.

Organisations – innovation and security

Resilient organizations are aware of the need for continuity of the brand and nonstop business is now the norm.

They also share several traits:

1. unity in responding to disruption, with IT and business leaders staying aligned as the enterprise shifts.
2. use IT to gain competitive advantage, investing in technologies that help groups work faster and with greater autonomy.
3. embrace a growth mindset, fostering a creative problem-solving culture that spreads throughout the organization.

In these ways, IT has a unique opportunity to build resilience throughout the organization, enabling the enterprise to invent its future in an era of uncertainty.

Every organisation has a unique context – through shared understanding, leadership, culture, and open source technologies, various stakeholders can minimize the risk of interrupting operations, modernize the customer experiences, accelerate innovation and meet business goals.

This article is sponsored by SUSE

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&ever, formerly Farmers Cut, is a Germany-based company with a mission to transform the future of agriculture. Through technological innovation and agricultural digitalization, they aim to locally and sustainably grow delicious tasting salad vegetables without the use of harmful pesticides. It was founded in 2015 by Mark Korzilius and Isabel Molitor. The firm coined the term dryponic, the advanced cultivation technology implemented in their indoor farming system.

Dryponic Optimized with SAP HANA & SAP Cloud Platform 

The dryponic technology was envisioned to produce the freshest, highly-nutritional leafy greens with the roots intact and alive until consumption. This system—unlike hydroponic, aeroponic, and aquaponic—keeps the roots dry throughout by using a unique method where roots are exposed to higher amounts of oxygen vs. dissolved oxygen in water. This allows the indoor farm to use 90 percent less water than other traditional vertical farming systems and leads to overall better-growing conditions.

The process eliminates the risk of contamination due to algae growth. This also allows the firm the capability to ‘Harvest on Demand.’ With dryponic, they can produce the freshest salad vegetables by only harvesting them until the final moment of serving to customers. To ensure the highest quality, the produce is tasted directly from the growing trays by the &ever team.

Using this new cultivation technology, sustainable and continuous farming is made possible even in the middle of the Kuwaiti desert.

To fully automate and effectively control atmospheric conditions of the dryponic system, &ever turned to SAP partner IBSolution GmbH for support with SAP HANA and SAP Cloud Platform solutions. Utilizing the Internet of Things (IoT), data is collected from a number of sources in the farmhouse to monitor:

• seeding and germination
• CO2 levels
• atmosphere temperature
• humidity
• airflow

The collected data is then sent to SAP HANA’s in-memory database and analyzed on the SAP Cloud Platform to optimize production. With these technological solutions, &ever’s indoor farm can continuously produce up to 550 kilos of fresh greens and herbs a day.

With IBSolution’s SAP software implementation and development, plans are underway by &ever to expand its sustainable farms throughout Asia and Africa.

The Future of Agriculture

The agriculture technology innovation is set to become a US$700B market by 2030. This only means that like &ever, other agricultural businesses need to step up in delivering intelligent solutions that utilize AI and other technological advancements to produce sustainable and profitable food products. Supporting the future of agriculture is a mission that SAP Business solutions aim to address. Using SAP HANA, SAP Cloud Platform, and other disruptive technologies, SAP offers industry best practices and standards to prepare agribusinesses for the agriculture revolution by creating market valuation throughout the entire value chain.

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