The document discusses trends and challenges in business digitalization. It provides an overview of digital transformation from the perspectives of systems architecture, data, and infrastructure. Key points include: - Digital transformation requires approaches like lean thinking, agile development, and data-driven decision making. - Major challenges are managing growing data volumes, expectations for data quality, and regulatory compliance. - Trends involve data governance, analytics, machine learning, APIs, microservices, and hybrid cloud infrastructure solutions. - True digital transformation is about streamlining client collaboration and shortening time to market while managing complexity and costs.

1. BUSINESS DIGITALIZATION
Trends and challenges

2. ABOUT ME
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 MD of Sigma Software in Sweden
 3 years in Sweden, Stockholm
 11 years with Sigma Software
 17 years in IT
 Masters Degree in AI from Radiotechnology University in Ukraine
 Masters Degree in Informatique Décisionnelle et Statistiques
from Lumiere Lyon 2 University, France
 What inspires me: Family, Yachting, Business

3. LET’S TALK ABOUT
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• Business Digitalization – why & how
• How IT systems “collaborate” today and what are the
trends for the nearest future
• Digitalization from Data perspective - safeguarding data
security, consistency and quality for Data-driven decisions
• Infrastructure Digitalization – major trends and
challenges
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4. DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
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5. WHY NOW?
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TRANSFORMATION HERE
TRANSFORMATION THERE
TRANSFORMATION EVERYHERE

6. TRUE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IS ABOUT
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CLIENT TIME-TO-MARKET ON-LINE

7. MAJOR CHALLENGE FOR ENTERPRISES -COMPLEXITY
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8. DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION PILLARS
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• Lean thinking
• Powerful digital
leadership
• Value-oriented
mindset
• Agile
• MVP approach
• Data Driven &
automated
• System Layering &
Microservices
• Data Governance
• Cloud/Web-scale
infrastructure

9. DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
FROM SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE
PERSPECTIVE
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10. NEEDS & CHALLENGES
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NEEDS
 Make collaboration with clients more intense & easy, move
on-line
 Be able to innovate/experiment/validate hypotheses fast and
within decent budget
CHALLENGES
 Remote collaboration -> diverse communication interfaces
 UX -> Lighter & more intuitive
 Legacy systems interoperability & integration
 Cost of change

11. TRENDS
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 Many light-weight front-ends instead of all-in-
one systems
 De-spread systems, microservices & processes
digitized through orchestrators
 APIsation

12. DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
FROM DATA PERSPECTIVE
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13. NEEDS & CHALLENGES
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NEEDS
 Data-driven decisions
 Personalized collaboration with clients
CHALLENGES
 Growing Data volumes handled by different systems &
business units
 Increased expectations on Data Quality
 Regulatory Compliance

14. TRENDS
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 Data Governance
 Lean Analytics
 ML & Advanced Analytics

15. DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
FROM INFRASTRUCTURE PERSPECTIVE
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16. NEEDS & CHALLENGES
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NEEDS
 Cost optimization
 Scalability
 Shorter time-to-market
CHALLENGES
 Security
 Control
 Cloud Hangover

17. TRENDS
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 Balanced approach to migration & hybrid
solutions
 Cloud infrastructure control & Cost
optimization

18. WHAT I ACTUALLY WANTED TO SAY
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19. TRANSFORMATION ≠ PAIN
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 Can one run a marathon overnight? And stay alive and in
good health condition?
 A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
 Any journey is more comfortable when you travel with a
reliable companion

20. LET’S TALK
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ARTEM PETRENKO
+46-70-600-4249
Artem.petrenko@sigma.software DATA GOVERNANCE & ANALYTICS
DIGITALIZATION
CLOUD
MICROSERVICES

21. THANK YOU!