Digital transformation drives disruption, and disruption has been affecting established enterprise software vendors even more than most enterprises. Caught in the jaws of the Innovators’ Dilemma, struggling to innovate while maintaining dwindling legacy cash cows, the very existence of the incumbents is under threat.
The detritus of this disruption scatters the enterprise technology battlefield. HPE, fresh off a company split, rushes to slough off business units. Dell voraciously gobbles up other players, only to fight for a larger slice of a shrinking pie. IBM loses its focus on its traditional strengths to place risky bets on artificial intelligence and Platform-as-a-Service. And Oracle stands alone as the only player who still doesn’t quite get the cloud.
And then there’s CA Technologies. Long a leader in the mainframe software business, CA has been reinventing itself now for several years. As you might expect, the big-picture message at its recent CAWorld conference was all about change and disruption and digital transformation.
The big question for CA’s customers, investors, and the technology community at large: will CA actually achieve the transformation it so desperately craves? Or will the Innovator’s Dilemma-centric challenge of milking long-term cash cows drag the company down?
The Surprising Key to Transformation
CA is making great strides with its Agile and DevOps stories, combining its 2015 acquisition of Rally Software with sizable bets on analytics and machine learning. But to understand CA’s true progress with its transformation, look no further than its mainframe portfolio.
Read the entire article at http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbloomberg/2016/11/19/mainframe-key-to-digital-transformation-for-ca-technologies/.
Intellyx publishes the Agile Digital Transformation Roadmap poster, advises companies on their digital transformation initiatives, and helps vendors communicate their agility stories. As of the time of writing, CA Technologies is an Intellyx customer. None of the other organizations mentioned in this article are Intellyx customers. CA Technologies covered Jason Bloomberg’s expenses to CAWorld, a standard industry practice. Image credit: Jason Bloomberg.
