Venka Venkacharman, the founder of the field of digital strategy research, believes in "The Underlying Logic of Digital Business" that any industry can ride the wind and waves in the digital transformation.
I take it for granted. As someone once said, all industries in the digital age are worth doing all over again. With the advent of the digital wave, thousands of industries are actively thinking about how to get out of the deep water area of digital transformation and not lose their way in future market competition.
As we all know, we are in a rapidly changing digital age, and digital technologies such as cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence, and blockchain are widely and deeply dominating the development of the world; Full of complexity, instability and uncertainty, many companies cannot see the future direction clearly.
Faced with the uncertainty brought about by the superposition of various factors in the market, Dell Technologies believes that innovation is the fundamental path for enterprises to enhance their competitiveness in the digital age. Using various digital technologies to create hybrid innovation and enhance digital resilience will help Form a unique advantage in the future market and seize new opportunities in the market.
As Wu Dongmei, global senior vice president of Dell Technologies Group, said at the 2023 Dell Technology Summit: "Innovation is the 'perpetual motion machine' for corporate growth. Embracing new technologies and changes is tantamount to embracing a 'new life'."
Wu Dongmei, Global Senior Vice President of Dell Technologies
The fusion of numbers and reality opens up a new pattern
The greater the change, the more important the innovation.
There is no doubt that in the next ten years, the convergence of the digital world and the physical world will bring disruptive changes to enterprises and industries. At present, the digital transformation of enterprises is at a critical inflection point. Digital and real integration is the biggest focus of innovation and determines the future of enterprises.
The latest "China Digital Economy Development Report (2023)" report shows that in 2022, the scale of China's digital economy will reach 50 trillion yuan, accounting for 41.5% of GDP, and the proportion of industrial digitization in digital economy industries will rise to 81%. With the continuous improvement of the scale of the digital economy, the accelerated integration of the real economy and digital technology, stimulating the transformation and upgrading of the real economy has become the most important trend of digital transformation and high-quality development in the next five years.
In fact, the "Overall Layout Plan for the Construction of Digital China" released earlier this year also focused on promoting the deep integration of digital technology and the real economy, and accelerated the development of digital technology in key areas such as agriculture, industry, finance, education, medical care, transportation, and energy. Innovative applications.
At present, many domestic industries are accelerating the pace of digital and real integration. IDC predicts that in the next five years, the compound annual growth rate of investment in digital transformation in the Chinese market will be 19%, and the core is to focus on the innovation of digital integration. For example, in the field of industrial manufacturing, the production line integrates digital technologies such as edge computing, artificial intelligence, and big data, and replaces human eye quality inspection with computing algorithms to achieve brake recognition and early warning; in the medical field, precision medicine uses mass data aggregation, Analyze and discover, formulate precise medical solutions in a targeted manner, so as to make the treatment of patients more accurate and efficient; in the field of mine production, use edge computing, machine vision, big data, cloud computing and other technologies to realize unmanned mine production Automation, automation and intelligence, reducing production risks and safety accidents...
Dr. Liu Wei, global vice president of Dell Technologies and general manager of China R&D Group, believes that the digital transformation of many companies has entered the deep water zone this year. In the past, they focused on cultivating pure digital capabilities. The focus of innovation in the next ten years will be digital integration. Businesses need to pay close attention to the ability of digital technologies to integrate with the real economy.
Dr. Liu Wei, Global Vice President of Dell Technologies and General Manager of China R&D Group
However, the innovation of digital-real integration is still inseparable from the challenges of the three core elements of technology, talent and process. Among them, technology is still a big problem, and many companies are facing multiple challenges such as technical threshold, security compliance, and complex infrastructure environment. "Digital-real integration not only improves efficiency, but also provides opportunities to create the future. All this needs to start with solving the underlying supporting technology." Dr. Liu Wei said.
Six Capabilities Promote Digital-Real Integration Innovation
As the saying goes, if a worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools.
The "Dell Technology Innovation Index Report" shows that only 2% of innovation leaders + 16% of mature innovative companies face uncertain factors such as economic slowdown, and their business recovery speed is 2.2 times that of other companies. Stand out from the competition in the market.
Obviously, the salient feature of these enterprises is that through the innovation of digital and real integration, they continuously improve their hybrid innovation and digital resilience, and hold a "sharp weapon" in their hands, so as to better adapt to the changes brought about by uncertainty in the digital age.
Dell Technologies believes that the innovation of digital and real integration needs to build six major capabilities, namely new cloud computing, modern data architecture, edge innovation platform, security and endpoint-level zero trust system, new future of global office model, and ability to promote sustainable development.
Specifically, the first capability is the new cloud computing. As we all know, multi-cloud has become the standard configuration environment for many users. While multi-cloud brings choice to users, it also brings challenges such as data isolation and incompatibility. By establishing an on-demand multi-cloud architecture to obtain new cloud computing capabilities, users will have the ability to choose freely in the multi-cloud era .
"Today, the multi-cloud environment of many users has not undergone overall design and overall planning, which can easily lead to chimney-like multi-cloud. Dell's APEX multi-cloud platform is an on-demand multi-cloud architecture that combines the strengths of public clouds and private clouds. Bringing a consistent and simplified cloud experience to users, so that users can repeat the mistakes made in the traditional IT era and realize flexible choices." Dr. Liu Wei introduced.
The second is to modernize the data architecture. Data has become the most important factor of production, and the most powerful tool to realize the value of data is undoubtedly AI. However, if data is to be used by AI, it needs to be supported by a modern data architecture, so that the processing, integration, application, and protection of data are better suited to the needs of AI.
The third is the edge innovation platform. In the future, the edge scene will be the place where the physical world and the digital world meet, it will also be the main force for data growth, and it will be the main battlefield for the integration of digital and real. Therefore, distributing applications and data to various edge scenarios will be a key capability for most enterprises in digital transformation.
However, edge scenarios face diverse challenges such as environment and hardware diversification, workload diversity, and management and operation difficulties. In this regard, Dell Technologies believes that simplification, integration, and security are the keys to edge scenarios. Dr. Liu Wei introduced: "The NativeEdge edge computing software platform is the industry's first platform that manages applications, hardware, and security of edge scenarios in a unified manner. It truly realizes automatic and zero-touch device management, and one-click deployment and upgrade for users."
The fourth is the security capability of building an endpoint-level zero-trust system. The current security ecology is complex, cyber threats are rampant, and the security system is not perfect. Dell Technologies' strategy is to use zero trust to this brand-new security concept to help users build security systems and information security capabilities, including data protection, elastic recovery and reliable partners.
The fifth is a new type of digital productivity. With hybrid office becoming a new normal, end-to-end intelligent solutions are required to achieve efficient and safe office anytime, anywhere, and users do not need to pay attention to other details.
Last but not least is sustainable development. With the proposal of China's dual carbon targets, energy conservation, emission reduction and sustainable development in all industries have become a compulsory course in digital transformation. Enterprises need to pay attention to the energy consumption challenges of digital technology itself, and at the same time, they also need to use digital technology to achieve energy saving and consumption reduction in business, so as to form sustainable development capabilities.
"Digital-real integration will open the road to digital innovation in the next decade. Dell Technologies will use the modern infrastructure as the engine to build a solid technical foundation for digital-real integration, and will do its best to help enterprises in thousands of industries build six major capabilities and realize industrial transformation and upgrading. .” Dr. Liu Wei said.
Dell Technologies, the best practitioner of digital-real fusion
In the era of UCCA, innovators survive.
According to Gartner's "Strategic Technology Trends 2023" report, in the current period of economic turmoil, enterprises need to continuously integrate digital technology and business to enhance corporate resilience and innovation capabilities, and to respond faster and develop opportunities while achieving operational excellence .
There is no doubt that digital transformation is fundamentally changing the business model, product development, marketing services and even innovation development of enterprises. However, digital transformation is a continuous long-term project, and digital-real fusion innovation is a spiral upward process, which requires reference directions and learning paths, but there is no eternal prescription.
As the world's leading technology company, Dell Technologies is undoubtedly the best practitioner of digital-real integration. Dell Technologies hopes to illuminate the future innovation path of enterprises through exploration and insights into digital-real integration, innovative product technologies, and comprehensive service capabilities.
For example, in the past three fiscal years, Dell Technologies has invested a total of US$7.8 billion in research and development, and is committed to five technical challenges that have not been fully resolved: multi-cloud, artificial intelligence, edge, security and future work.
Another example is that Dell Technologies has extensively integrated AI technology into its full-line product development. Laptops and workstations use AI to analyze user habits and adjust settings intelligently; use machine learning to optimize cache distribution and data storage tiering to bring users an innovative experience; use artificial intelligence technology to manage the entire infrastructure All the equipment in the system realize the intelligentization and automation of management, operation and maintenance...
Another example is that in terms of sustainable development, Dell Technologies takes the lead in promoting sustainable development. Dell Technologies global factories have achieved 59% of electricity from renewable energy sources, the use of sustainable materials in products and packaging has reached 155,500 tons, and 94.5% of the packaging in the product portfolio is made from recycled or renewable materials…
"In this wave of innovation in the future, Dell Technologies hopes to help enterprises digitize and lighten the road to innovation in the future. This year marks the 25th anniversary of Dell Technologies entering the Chinese market, and Dell Technologies will continue to be committed to fulfilling its commitment to Chinese customers and employees in the future." Wu Dongmei Finally said.