Dell EMC joins IDC’s CIO Summit 2017 to boost digitization

Dell EMC yesterday announced their participation as a Summit partner at the IDC CIO Summit 2017 Middle East, being held on the Royal Caribbean Cruise from March 6th to 9th. Marking its 10th edition, the summit is slated to bring together 100 of the region’s most influential CIOs on board to help them evolve into true digital leaders capable of taking customer experience to unimaginable heights.

Themed ‘Enabling Dynamic Change for the Digital Era’ the summit is designed to enable CIOs rethink the way they leverage information, harness emerging ICT solutions, and facilitate organization-wide innovation, with the ultimate aim of making their enterprises more agile, efficient, and productive than ever before. In line with this objective, Magnus Nilsson, CTO Commercial EMEA, Dell EMC, will present a session on March 7th about digital transformation and making IT infrastructure more streamlined and agile to meet the increasingly tough demands of today’s customers.

Organizations are coming under immense pressure to deliver agile services that support the changing needs of their customers. According to a research by Dell Technologies, which surveyed 4,000 business leaders from mid-size to large enterprises, across 16 countries and 12 industries including UAE and Saudi Arabia, 67 percent of business leaders agree customers want faster access to services, however, only 46 percent of businesses can meet this demand. In addition, the survey reveals that only 29 percent of businesses are capable of delivering a personalized experience to their customers, while 32 percent of business leaders state lack of the right technologies to work at the speed of business.

In light of these findings, Dell EMC’s participation as the Summit Partner is aimed at helping CIOs gather a clear understanding of digital transformation and enable businesses to explore varied ICT solutions to improve efficiency, reduce costs, increase competitiveness and ensure digital readiness. In addition, through this platform, Dell EMC intends to enable organizations create a modernized, automated and transformed business that supports not just their own business strategies but also helps them spot, identify and leverage new opportunities generated by the digital age.

Dell EMC, a part of Dell Technologies, enables organizations to modernize, automate and transform their data center using industry-leading converged infrastructure, servers, storage and data protection technologies. This provides a trusted foundation for businesses to transform IT, through the creation of a hybrid cloud, and transform their business through the creation of cloudnative applications and big data solutions. Dell EMC services customers across 180 countries - including 98 percent of the Fortune 500 - with the industry’s most comprehensive and innovative portfolio from edge to core to cloud.