"It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; it's the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time."
- David Allan Coe
Enterprises need to build on a foundation that can help innovate at speed, keep up with change, and prepare them for what can come in the future. Digital transformation requires a digital-ready infrastructure, which is simple, intelligent, automated, and secure. There are multiple elements of the digitization infrastructure of an organization as we will see in Figure 1 next. We can broadly classify the infrastructure into three parts:
- A host of input and output systems that interact with the human world. This would include IoT systems (such as wearable sensors, the sensors in vehicles, homes, and manufacturing plants), mobile systems, CCTV cameras, and environmental sensors.
- The underlying...
