Enterprise IT strategies are consolidating into one approach that can encompass artificial intelligence and next-generation applications.
That's the gist of a report from Constellation Research analyst Holger Mueller, who argued that there's going to be "a single best-practice IT strategy."
This consolidation of approaches is being forced by a bevy of underlying trends and business requirements. Enterprises need to drive insights from data, enable AI, develop next-gen applications powered by one data foundation and aligning IT costs with the business.
Mueller argued that there's only one IT strategy to accomplish those tasks. The strategy has a series of steppingstones including building one lakehouse with business intelligence capabilities, creating an AI platform on the cloud, developing next-gen applications that are built in-house based on automation and eliminating tech debt, leveraging truly global systems and going with a cloud-native foundation.
The biggest task here is to create the data foundation since it's the building block for everything else.
Mueller said:
"There have always been multiple IT strategies and parallel platform options with their own merits. Often it was also not a question of “if” but “when”: Timing mattered and was rightfully part of strategy discussions. The emergence and viability of GenAI make this obsolete. There is only one IT strategy, and it needs to be implemented now. And it is clear that those who move earlier will learn earlier and execute AI business better and sooner than anyone moving more slowly or waiting."
