Digital Ecosystems rapidly became a multi-billion dollar industry. Last year Hyperscalers invested over $120 billion in Digital Ecosystem platforms. Disruptive innovations provide simpler or more elegant solutions to existing problems, enabled by new technology and often at a lower cost. Many businesses recognizes the limitations of their existing platform while exploring opportunities that tap into emerging technologies and new delivery models who will have the best chance of thriving in the fast-approaching disruptive future. Collaborative Ecosystems should exponentially elevate the value it creates and deliver. They will revolutionize business for some time to come.

Hyperscalers

Hyperscalers such as Apple, Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and others are gearing up for battle. Misleading information is convincing businesses to migrate to these platforms without understanding the long-term impact and liabilities. Moreover, entire industries are making decisions based on studies and reports, influenced by the very same Hyperscalers. Many businesses think if they do not keep up they will eventually fail.

Client Operating System

Dominating Digital Ecosystems will require an even more dominating end-user Operating System. The end game is controlling the entire value chain in addition to recurrent subscription lock-in, and preventing you the customer from ever migrating. In other words, easy to get in but difficult to get out.

Enterprise Migration

It should not be a surprise that medium to large size Enterprises are having great difficulties adapting to Digital Ecosystems. Migration could be risky, complicated and expensive or just simply impossible. There are no standards or unification between competitive Digital Ecosystem platforms. Migrating from a Digital Ecosystem might not be possible without starting over again and paying a hefty fine.

Channel Partners

I have witnessed the destruction of privacy and the disruptive (dead-end) transition of the hosting industry. Next in line are Channel Partners, ISV’s and OEM’s. Overall, I am unpleasantly surprised businesses and governments ignore the risks by surrendering sensitive data to these Hyperscalers. It is time for new legislation to reveal the true intentions of those trying to dominate our digital world. If you think they are on your side think again!

Too Big to Fail

Eventually Hyperscalers will become too big to fail. If governments fail to regulate them, it will expose us to a global economic and systemic meltdown.

What led to today’s success will ultimately lead to tomorrow’s failure

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An ideal workplace of the future is the one that saves time and makes tasks simplified. It shall combine all relevant information related to documents, apps, emails, social media, marketing tools and collaboration tools, into one single interface with a single Login or controlled sign on. It shall be device and platform independent. The users shall be able to enhance their work with any kind of tools or new API Integrations into their systems. Furthermore, third party add-ons like file management and document add-ons and other things like social media profiles, digital marketing tools, etc. can also be integrated within the workspace making it a more robust and richer workplace user experience.

Complete Digital workspace

A One-Stop solution workspace shall be accessible right from the browser. The complete cloud-based workplace wards off the need of a specific physical workspace with decent infrastructure. However, if any user is not fully ready for an entire shift to the cloud, there are also options to go for hybrid workspaces where you share apps and other features of the workspace between the cloud and your systems. Since hybrid is the current and future trend, the digitized workplace of the future shall include aspects from hybridization.

Saving time and space for the workplace is a big plus in this competitive environment.  Using One-Stop solution Workplaces, it would be possible in future to pay more attention to the business growth and idea rather than workplace and its hassle.

A customized Palette of apps

In such a system, all things are combined and thus it makes things simplified for the end user. The future workplace is a custom workplace that varies for each individual. There is a lot to choose from. It keeps you going with your business. The end users can configure their custom apps in the Cloud and make it a customized workspace. The users also don’t require much technical knowledge and can easily setup the workspace by themselves. This user friendly factor is much needed in a digital workspace for better productivity and performance. This unified web portal will accommodate most Cloud SaaS apps that the end users will be able to use.

Apart from that, such a workspace shall have a feature to integrate with old IT systems running before the new technology is phased in. The user end wouldn’t be bothered about which technology is working at the back-end, either new technology (Cloud apps or cloud services) or Old systems (like user management tools, remote desktops, file servers, on-premises environments etc.). The user shall be provided with a single interface regardless of the technology behind it so they don’t have to deal with legacy.

Finally, workspaces are being modified to bring all related things combined. However, it varies from one user to user, so each of them will have their own personalized workspace in future.

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