Businesses face a variety of challenges from managing increasingly complex IT environments to addressing significant skills gaps and modernizing legacy infrastructures. These hurdles can slow innovation, reduce efficiency, and increase risks. This brief explores how strategic automation and AI solutions can help organizations streamline operations, enhance productivity, and remain competitive in a fast-paced market.
The Futurum Group’s latest research report, Accelerating AI, Automation, and Innovation in Modern Enterprises, completed in partnership with Red Hat, delves into the technical challenges that organizations are currently navigating. The research highlights how automation, generative AI, and innovative technologies like Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform enable businesses to overcome these obstacles by simplifying complex tasks, optimizing resources, and bridging the skills gap.
Key takeaways from Accelerating AI, Automation, and Innovation in
Modern Enterprises include:
- The growing complexity of IT environments requires automation to streamline operations, reduce manual tasks, and minimize human error.
- Skills gaps in the workforce hinder the adoption of new technologies, but automation and AI provide solutions to upskill teams and simplify the development of workflows.
- Modernizing legacy infrastructures is essential for efficiency and scalability, and automation supports this process by enhancing operational resilience and reducing downtime.
As businesses continue to innovate and scale, addressing the challenges of IT complexity, skills gaps, and legacy systems is critical. This paper uncovers how automation and AI can support operations, making organizations more agile and competitive.
If you are interested in learning more, be sure to download your copy of Accelerating AI, Automation, and Innovation in Modern Enterprises today.
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Daniel is the CEO of The Futurum Group. Living his life at the intersection of people and technology, Daniel works with the world’s largest technology brands exploring Digital Transformation and how it is influencing the enterprise.
From the leading edge of AI to global technology policy, Daniel makes the connections between business, people and tech that are required for companies to benefit most from their technology investments. Daniel is a top 5 globally ranked industry analyst and his ideas are regularly cited or shared in television appearances by CNBC, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal and hundreds of other sites around the world.
A 7x Best-Selling Author including his most recent book “Human/Machine.” Daniel is also a Forbes and MarketWatch (Dow Jones) contributor.
An MBA and Former Graduate Adjunct Faculty, Daniel is an Austin Texas transplant after 40 years in Chicago. His speaking takes him around the world each year as he shares his vision of the role technology will play in our future.
Mitch Ashley is VP and Practice Lead of DevOps and Application Development for The Futurum Group. Mitch has over 30+ years of experience as an entrepreneur, industry analyst, product development, and IT leader, with expertise in software engineering, cybersecurity, DevOps, DevSecOps, cloud, and AI. As an entrepreneur, CTO, CIO, and head of engineering, Mitch led the creation of award-winning cybersecurity products utilized in the private and public sectors, including the U.S. Department of Defense and all military branches. Mitch also led managed PKI services for broadband, Wi-Fi, IoT, energy management and 5G industries, product certification test labs, an online SaaS (93m transactions annually), and the development of video-on-demand and Internet cable services, and a national broadband network.
Mitch shares his experiences as an analyst, keynote and conference speaker, panelist, host, moderator, and expert interviewer discussing CIO/CTO leadership, product and software development, DevOps, DevSecOps, containerization, container orchestration, AI/ML/GenAI, platform engineering, SRE, and cybersecurity. He publishes his research on FuturumGroup.com and TechstrongResearch.com/resources. He hosts multiple award-winning video and podcast series, including DevOps Unbound, CISO Talk, and Techstrong Gang.
