Adopt Digital Transformation, Signal Alliance, Cisco Urge Banks
Emma Okonji
Signal Alliance and Cisco have advised money deposit banks in the country to adopt digital transformation that is currently driving the globe.
At a recent meeting with the banks in Lagos, the security companies demonstrated how the operations and security of banks could be improved and become more efficient without spending above their budget.
Speaking at the Signal Alliance-Cisco business engagement session, Signal Alliance Director of Service Delivery, Adegbola Adesina, said:“More companies continue to embrace mobility, cloud, analytics, and increase in custom built application on low bandwidth, consuming applications to digitize their businesses. These have made IT teams to struggle in their bid to keep up with the ever-increasing complexity of the network, sophistication of security attacks and growing end user’s expectations.”
This, according to Adesina, has led many organisations to spend huge sums of money acquiring new devices all in the name of upgrade which may not be necessary.
The Signal Alliance Digital Transformation event was well attended by leading banks in Nigeria. The bankers were shown by experts how their organisations can make do with what they already have, cut down on their Information Technology (IT) spend and grow their services in a more secure environment to gain competitive advantage through process digitization.
Three presentations were made by experts. Yinka Adeosun of Signal Alliance spoke on Digital Network Transformation, Tomi Amao of Cisco demonstrated the new Cisco Security Integrated Architecture, while Kaecy Udumukwu presentation was on Digital Business Transformation.
During the presentations, participants were made to know that Cisco had realized that traditional networks simply could not scale to meet the increasing demands of the digital business. For this reason, a new network was needed for the digital business, which is a new network for the digital era. A network designed from the ground up to be flexible, programmable and open; while leveraging on and protecting existing investment.
The Cisco Digital Ready Network helps IT to address these demands by moving networking from hardwarecentric to software-driven, from manual to automated, and from reactive to adaptive.