Group Chief In­for­ma­tion Of­fi­cer of ANSA McAL Ian Galt says dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion is here to stay.

Galt shared his per­spec­tive on dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion dur­ing re­cent dis­cus­sions held at the Brix Ho­tel, Port-of-Spain which was fa­cil­i­tat­ed by DFX5.

With of­fices in the USA, Eu­rope, and the Caribbean, DFX5 is among the lead­ing cloud pro­fes­sion­al ser­vices net­works in the world.

Head­quar­tered in Mi­a­mi, the com­pa­ny fo­cus­es on de­vel­op­ing ideas in­to en­ter­prise-grade so­lu­tions by of­fer­ing best-in-class soft­ware de­vel­op­ment ser­vices for cloud so­lu­tions.

Speak­ing at the event Galt said, “Our in­dus­try has a lot of acronyms and buzz­words. There is no ques­tion that dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion is one of the new­er buzz­words or buzz phras­es. From my per­spec­tive, I think it is very much here to stay. You may not call it dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion in three or five years, but it is very much here to stay.”

Ac­cord­ing to a re­lease the event brought to­geth­er key se­nior ex­ec­u­tives who spoke about the cur­rent con­text of dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion, the role of tech­nol­o­gy lead­ers in this jour­ney, the chal­leng­ing con­text busi­ness­es are in, and the de­moc­ra­ti­sa­tion of au­toma­tion and ma­chine learn­ing.

An­dres del Pino of DXF5 al­so not­ed, “If we have an overem­pha­sis on what tech­nol­o­gy can do then we are or may be set­ting our­selves up for fail­ure. Dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion is not an IT project, it’s a com­pa­ny ini­tia­tive and busi­ness and IT need to come to­geth­er.”

With over ten years in the space of dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion, del Pino al­so shared his ex­pe­ri­ence in the in­dus­try say­ing, “Ear­ly adopters of the tech­nol­o­gy have got gains, right? How do we catch up? How do we par­tic­i­pate in this trend?

“We’re not go­ing to repli­cate those suc­cess­es, but we can speed up our jour­ney. (What are the) tech­nol­o­gy trends that are now ma­ture enough for us to con­sid­er them with­in our trans­for­ma­tion strat­e­gy and in­tel­li­gent au­toma­tion?”

Ac­cord­ing to Galt it al­so be­comes less of an op­er­a­tional cost and more of a strate­gic in­vest­ment.

“The gen­er­al trans­for­ma­tion to my mind is sim­ply about putting more and more pow­er in­to the hands of the cus­tomers and more pow­er in­to the sort of self–sur­vey of the cus­tomer as op­posed to the cus­tomer hav­ing to go in and to me that is on­ly go­ing to in­crease. So yes, to­day I can pay for things on­line, but I would pre­dict in the next few years that it’s go­ing to be­come even more pre­dic­tive. Don’t view it as an ex­pense, but lit­er­al­ly view it as an in­vest­ment. For me, it’s be­come less of an op­er­a­tional cost and more of a strate­gic in­vest­ment,” Galt said.