Soaring on the Wings of Digital India

Authored by Alok Ohrie, President & Managing Director, India Commercial, Dell EMC 

The industry is witnessing unfolding of the 4th Industrial Revolution, the Digital Revolution, which is all set to redefine the way we work and interact—not just between people but between people and machines as well. In the new digitized world, sustainability of every business will very much hinge on its adoptability and adaptability to “go digital.” Investments in digital technology will probably be the crucial factor for organizations to stay ahead of the curve.

The wave of digital transformation has reached India’s shore as well, with the introduction of our Prime Minister’s ambitious and aspirational Digital India initiative. The major focus of this overarching initiative, primarily, revolves around three areas:

• Infrastructure as a utility for every citizen
• Digital empowerment of citizens
• Governance and services on demand

The ambitious program has the potential to ensure a whopping 20- 30% increase in India’s GDP that, too, by 2025.

Meanwhile, the government has also set its eye on a target of $1-trillion digital economy by 2022. The number; however, does not stand for any limit but for a milestone, as revealed by Ajay Kumar, additional secretary in the ministry of electronics and IT. “The idea is how to accelerate the whole digitization process and engage the industry in thought leadership,” he added.

Digitization is all set to create ripple effects across sectors, industries, and domains in India. Speaking volumes about the fact is a PwC report. According to the report, digitization in the country’s industrial sector is projected to expand to 65% in the coming five years.

However, our country’s journey to digitization is not as rosy as it may sound. The prime challenge is that most of Indian organizations were not born during the digital age. They, therefore, have a constant compulsion to deal with their age-old legacy systems and operating models that restrain their ability to transform.

Increasingly, organizations are feeling the need to reduce their expenditure on traditional IT infrastructure and invest a significant part of their budget and resources in digital technologies. It’s the right time for Indian enterprises to provide a much-needed fillip to their IT infrastructure if they aspire to ride high on the wave of digital transformation.

Taking cue from various infrastructural challenges faced by India enterprises in the digital age, we, at Dell EMC, have come up with a breadth of enterprise solutions. We’re pulling out all the possible stops to deploy our specific resources to engage with the key stakeholders. Our endeavor to build an appropriate set of capabilities to provide the most comprehensive portfolio of products and solutions from the edge to the core to the cloud is a significant move towards our nation’s much-cherished dream for a digital future.

However, a critical point should not be overlooked here. While the impact of digital transformation is immense, enterprises’ path to achieving their digital success is not that simple. To realize the full potential of the transformation, Indian enterprises must contemplate devising a well-defined, holistic digital strategy that lays emphasis not only on immediate priorities but on long-term scopes and opportunities as well.

Indeed, we have come a long way to fulfill our vision for a digitized country. Still, we have a long way to go. Riding high on the wave of overarching initiatives of PM Modi, we, at Dell EMC, are well positioned to deliver transformational technology solutions for the Indian market, thereby playing a great part to push the Digital India vision to reality.