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Real-time data processing - and
the infrastructure to support it -
are fast becoming mandatory for
businesses that want to stay
competitive.
By Mike Vizard, Posted October
29, 2020
One of the most profound changes in the history of IT is
gaining momentum, as the COVID-19 pandemic forces
organizations of all sizes to embrace digital business
transformation.
While digital business transformation is in the eye of the
beholder, the one thing that is certain is that event-driven IT
platforms that drive real-time processing are gaining traction
at both the edge and in the cloud. IT organizations are
starting to appreciate the need to both process and analyze
data in near-real time at the points where it is created and
consumed. Batch-oriented processing to drive a business
process is becoming antiquated, as organizations look to
analyze data orders of magnitude faster than any human
thought possible.

2. Applications, as a result, need to increasingly analyze data in
real time, says TIBCO Software COO Matt Quinn.
"It’s a bit of a philosophical shift," says Quinn.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made a similar observation
during the recent Microsoft Ignite 2020 conference when he
told attendees that understanding data in real time is crucial
to digital business transformation.
Changes need across IT
stack
Those digital business processes, however, will require IT
teams to embrace modernization across all levels of the IT
stack. From React frameworks based on JavaScript that
enable IT teams to build and deploy more interactive
applications, to serverless computing platforms that make it
simpler to scale IT infrastructure resources up and down as
needed, IT is being thoroughly transformed.
The challenge IT organizations face now is determining to
what degree they want to construct these platforms
themselves using everything from Apache Kafka messaging
software to artificial intelligence (AI) platforms, versus
migrating to platforms that pre-integrate many of these
capabilities.
Swim.AI, for example, is making the case for an open source
Swim Continuum platform that makes it possible to deploy
continuous intelligence applications based on streaming data.
Such technologies will provide organizations with a simpler
way to accelerate digital business transformation initiatives.
"You don’t need to store the data to analyze it," says Max
Hermann, chief marketing officer for Swim.AI.
The Swim.AI platform is gaining traction because - among
other things - it makes it simpler to build, for example, digital
twins of real-world processes that organizations are now
trying to replicate online in response to the pandemic.
Regardless of how any IT organization goes about driving
digital business transformation, batch-oriented applications
that have dominated IT for more than three decades will soon
wane. While they may never disappear completely, telling
business leaders it will require 24 hours to update an
application using batch processes is simply no longer an
acceptable business outcome. Business users now expect to
have the same experience at work as they do when they

3. access consumer applications. Organizations that are unable
to live up to that real-time expectation will soon find
themselves consigned to the scrap heap of history.
IT as a consequence has never been more important than it is
today. The issue is not every business leader appreciates the
level of investment that's needed in modern IT applications
and systems. They are willing to fund a transition to the cloud
to make IT a more variable cost, but that's not nearly the same
as investing in application experiences that ultimately delight
customers. That failure to comprehend the strategic
imperative for investing in real-time applications will soon
prove fatal much sooner than most business leaders today
realize, for businesses large and small alike.
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