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OpenWorld 2011: IT transformations are too much work

06.10.2011
Once the current wave of core IT transformations have been completed it will be many years before we see their likes again as they have become simply too big, complex, and hard to do.

That's the view of Oracle's APAC VP applications development, Doug Hughes, and the vendor's Australian customers Australian Financial Group (AFG) and IT consultancy PresenceofIT.

Speaking at Oracle OpenWorld 2011 in San Francisco, Hughes said the days of large IT transformation projects were long gone.

"We see a change within customers: transformation programs can't happen anymore," he said. "It is too much work. It stops a business... it is three years of lockdown [the business] can't do anything. IT needs to move to be a business partner that sits there and addresses areas of concern around the business as and when they are needed.

"So what we are seeing is customers taking their core, foundational implementation, and leaving it [alone] and instead asking how they can extend their capabilities."