Anup Maheshwari - Digital Transformation : Building Intelligent Enterprises

1. Chapter 1
2. Chapter 3
3. Chapter 4
4. Chapter 6
5. Chapter 7
6. Chapter 9
7. Chapter 11
8. Chapter 13
9. Chapter 15
10. Chapter 16
11. Chapter 17

Anup Maheshwari

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We are living in the era of digital revolution where new products and technologies are disrupting the existing businesses while at the same time creating opportunities and paving the way for new businesses to flourish and make a mark of their own.

I am extremely thrilled and excited to present in this book the enterprise path to digital transformation and the adoption of new IT methods and tools and emerging technologies to build intelligent enterprises. Every enterprise is looking for nirvana in digital transformation but it takes a complete restructuring within the enterprise to make that change and be successful.

Through this book, I have made an attempt to discuss all the methodologies, tools, technologies, and platforms that an enterprise needs to consider and evaluate to reach the end goal. Every enterprise is unique and is at various levels of technological adoption maturity. Though the book provides a holistic view of all the emerging technologies, the enterprise needs to choose the right fit that would bring the maximum value to their business, make them stand above the competition, and help them succeed as the enterprise of tomorrow.

I hope you enjoy reading this book, as every attempt has been made to discuss all the technologies from a business perspective with industryspecific use cases so that a business case can be established towards implementing a specific tool or technology. I have discussed the methodology and tools that the enterprise can utilize to implement emerging technologies on the correct platform with correct data sets and then integrate for exposure to the outside world.

SAP Leonardo is an innovative solution helping clients achieve digital transformation. I have reviewed the endtoend offering of this product to provide an overview of the functionality and capabilities to my treasured readers.

I hope you will find reading this book a worthwhile investment of your time.

Anup Maheshwari
Dallas, TX
2019

The book provides a solid theoretical and practical application for various emerging technologies that help in building intelligent enterprises. Though there are individual books available for each of the subjects covered in this book, this book provides all the topics under one roof so that the readers can gain substantial knowledge on any subject of their interest. No prior understanding of any technical coding or language is necessary to understand the content of this book.

The book is very well suited for Csuite executives comprising CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, CDOs, and CMOs, IT leaders and executives, IT managers, project/program managers, solution architects, business leaders and executives, business managers, and all professionals who have an interest and desire to learn these new IT and nextgeneration emerging technologies or have an agenda to digitize key processes within an organization to make the enterprise intelligent.

Not only does this book provide insights into the tools and technologies, but readers will have an opportunity to leverage the industryspecific use cases and examples discussed for each of technology area and apply them at the enterprise, which will help the reader contribute to the digital goals of the enterprise and make an impact through the knowledge gained by reading this book.

This book is useful for those who are absolute novices and want to equipped themselves with the latest technological trends; it will be equally intriguing to those who are more advanced in the learning curve to gain the practical insights into the implementation and usage of the technology. The book is not for someone looking for a deepdive into the technical and coding aspects of the technology.

As new technologies and business disruptions are reshaping business, such as Facebook, Airbnb, and Uber, this book explores the background, theory, and practical applications of major emerging technologies surrounding our ecosystem and provides a contextual meaning for the digitalization, what it means for the business, and how to adapt and get on board with the everchanging and fast journey.

This book has been structured with the following sections and topics:

, Introduction, introduces the concept of digital transformation and its associated digital themes that an enterprise can adapt based on its industry to make itself intelligent.