Find Your Edge: Create value by harnessing data at the point of creation

**A new paradigm to better respond to business priorities **

There’s no doubt that the data-driven era has fundamentally changed the world. The speed of business has changed.

Consumer expectations have changed. The demand for rich digital experiences and instant information access — driven by real-time applications — has shifted enterprise priorities. Business demands now drive IT and OT.

But IT can’t seem to move fast enough to keep up with the business. Resources are either underutilized or not agile enough to meet business needs. This gap between business demands and IT capabilities is increasingly a point of friction.

That’s why IT modernization and transformation are becoming critical imperatives for both the business and IT. We’re at a vital inflection point. One that’s redefining IT as we know it. Because the business doesn’t need technology. The business needs information.

But nothing happens in a vacuum. Business priorities drive IT priorities. And IT capabilities underpin business capabilities, which either limit or expand future priorities in an endless cycle. Whether that cycle is virtuous or vicious depends on how closely IT and business priorities are aligned.

With data increasingly coming from outside the core data center, harnessing all that information will require stretching your imagination to the edge.