Exclusive Interview with Saurabh Saxena, Country Director, Micro Focus
To evolve in this era of digital acceleration, organizations need a high level of IT flexibility to undergo the technology migration from legacy to cloud, without any disruption while ensuring high returns on the investment. Micro Focus is one of the world’s largest enterprise software providers delivering mission-critical technology and solutions to help customers globally manage their core IT elements so they can run and transform, at the same time. Analytics Insight has engaged in an exclusive interview with Saurabh Saxena, Country Director, Micro Focus.
1. Kindly brief us about the company, its specialization, and the services that your company offers.
Micro Focus is one of the world’s largest enterprise software providers delivering mission-critical technology and solutions to help customers globally manage their core IT elements so they can run and transform, at the same time. To evolve in this era of digital acceleration, organizations need a high level of IT flexibility to undergo the technology migration from legacy to cloud, without any disruption while ensuring high returns on the investment. Micro Focus enables its customer to evolve as a digital-first company by bridging its existing and emerging technologies to ensure agility and business continuity by:
- Simplifying IT transformation through hybrid IT management
- Accelerating application delivery through software development for delivering business value
- Strengthening cyber resilience to mitigate, defend and recover from
- Empowering data with insight-driven decisions through predictive analytics
- Modernizing core applications with DevOps
2. How has the adoption of hybrid IT/cloud evolved over the last few years?
In the post-pandemic world, organizations globally have witnessed a massive shift in their IT infrastructure for ensuring business continuity amidst uncertain times. Businesses have moved to hybrid IT to support remote working and provide accessibility to employees anywhere in the world. Digitization has become core to staying relevant in the present world i.e., the adoption of emerging technologies for agility and seamless operations. As these technologies get integrated, IT teams are exploring the vast opportunities provided by the hybrid cloud. According to IDC, by this year 70% of enterprises will integrate cloud management by deploying unified hybrid/multi-cloud technologies, management tools, and processes.
3. The industry is seeing a rising importance of business and technology enablers like virtualization, convergence, and cloud. How do you see these emerging technologies impact your business sector?
As the industry is evolving at an unprecedented rate, the focus on integrating emerging solutions has become non-negotiable for achieving reliability, resiliency, and agility across the business. With the implementation of the right mix of technologies and a future-focused strategy in place, a hybrid cloud will allow businesses to benefit from the combined advantages of legacy IT and virtual without the need for massive investment. These emerging technologies offer dexterity to business operations for deploying robust solutions and services. An instance would be the application of analytics in today’s data-driven world. The application of analytics is crucial for organizations to manage and analyse the massive volumes of unstructured customer data at extreme speed and scale to gain an in-depth and holistic view of customer interactions.
4. How does your company’s strategy facilitate the transformation of an enterprise?
Digital Transformation is not a single technology nor a single IT project. Transformation of an enterprise means deploying a broad set of technologies, often in a series of interrelated initiatives. It starts with an evaluation of top organizational objectives and requires internal analysis of resources, organizational maturity, and technological gaps. Micro Focus is a channel-driven business and through our network of global partners, we assist customers to the advantage of their existing software investments while driving innovation by deploying emerging technologies, software, and critical tools to build, secure, and strengthen their operations. We help companies solve their digital dilemma by helping enterprises run and transform at the same time keeping business resilience as a priority. From strengthening security measures, moving to DevOps and agile, embracing software as a service or adopting emerging technologies like AI and analytics, we are investing in today’s challenges and tomorrow’s opportunities to support organization’s transformation now and into the future.
5. Which industry verticals are you currently focusing on? And what is your go-to-market strategy for the same?
We are witnessing increased digital appetite across sectors – BFSI, government and PSU, IT-ITES, etc. We are working with the Government of India on over 50% of India’s smart city projects, in Digital India projects such as BharatNet, State Data centers, and State-wide Area networks to aid citizen services under various programs. There has also been an increase in digital adoption in the IT-ITeS sector due to the growing need for digital capabilities and DevSecOps. We are also helping FSI and public sector clients in managing the increased number of concurrent users on their platforms through our load testing applications. We are assisting customers in the banking space to integrate automation into their application lifecycle for increased agility and performance.
We are a channel-focused enterprise, expanding our partner ecosystem through different initiatives and our global partner program. Almost 90% of our engagements with end customers are done with the help of our channel partners ensuring that we meet all the business demands of our customers across environments and sectors. Our partner program especially in the India and APJ region provides extended services and support to our channel partners through portfolio enhancements, training, and certifications, and upselling and cross-selling opportunities for high profitability and more opportunities.
6. What does your technology and business roadmap look like for the rest of the year?
With a robust and granular plan, we are set to achieve our core financial objectives for FY23, and we have a strong foundation to execute from. In 2022, we have introduced new digital, analytics, and cyber resilience capabilities and solutions in every portfolio to deliver higher outcomes in operation and customer satisfaction. Our reshaped consulting practice is aimed at delivering projects that will add value to our customers through greater agility and seamless software deployment. We are focused on delivering solutions in the six product groups of Application Modernization & Connectivity, Application Delivery Management, IT Operations Management, Cyber resilience, Information Management & Governance, and Vertica, the core analytical platform by Micro Focus. Our key areas of action in 2022 are helping enterprises adopt a product-centric mindset, secure their digital value chain, application modernization, and offer our array of professional services.
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To evolve in this era of digital acceleration, organizations need a high level of IT flexibility to undergo the technology migration from legacy to cloud, without any disruption while ensuring high returns on the investment. Micro Focus is one of the world’s largest enterprise software providers delivering mission-critical technology and solutions to help customers globally manage their core IT elements so they can run and transform, at the same time. Analytics Insight has engaged in an exclusive interview with Saurabh Saxena, Country Director, Micro Focus.
1. Kindly brief us about the company, its specialization, and the services that your company offers.
Micro Focus is one of the world’s largest enterprise software providers delivering mission-critical technology and solutions to help customers globally manage their core IT elements so they can run and transform, at the same time. To evolve in this era of digital acceleration, organizations need a high level of IT flexibility to undergo the technology migration from legacy to cloud, without any disruption while ensuring high returns on the investment. Micro Focus enables its customer to evolve as a digital-first company by bridging its existing and emerging technologies to ensure agility and business continuity by:
- Simplifying IT transformation through hybrid IT management
- Accelerating application delivery through software development for delivering business value
- Strengthening cyber resilience to mitigate, defend and recover from
- Empowering data with insight-driven decisions through predictive analytics
- Modernizing core applications with DevOps
2. How has the adoption of hybrid IT/cloud evolved over the last few years?
In the post-pandemic world, organizations globally have witnessed a massive shift in their IT infrastructure for ensuring business continuity amidst uncertain times. Businesses have moved to hybrid IT to support remote working and provide accessibility to employees anywhere in the world. Digitization has become core to staying relevant in the present world i.e., the adoption of emerging technologies for agility and seamless operations. As these technologies get integrated, IT teams are exploring the vast opportunities provided by the hybrid cloud. According to IDC, by this year 70% of enterprises will integrate cloud management by deploying unified hybrid/multi-cloud technologies, management tools, and processes.
3. The industry is seeing a rising importance of business and technology enablers like virtualization, convergence, and cloud. How do you see these emerging technologies impact your business sector?
As the industry is evolving at an unprecedented rate, the focus on integrating emerging solutions has become non-negotiable for achieving reliability, resiliency, and agility across the business. With the implementation of the right mix of technologies and a future-focused strategy in place, a hybrid cloud will allow businesses to benefit from the combined advantages of legacy IT and virtual without the need for massive investment. These emerging technologies offer dexterity to business operations for deploying robust solutions and services. An instance would be the application of analytics in today’s data-driven world. The application of analytics is crucial for organizations to manage and analyse the massive volumes of unstructured customer data at extreme speed and scale to gain an in-depth and holistic view of customer interactions.
4. How does your company’s strategy facilitate the transformation of an enterprise?
Digital Transformation is not a single technology nor a single IT project. Transformation of an enterprise means deploying a broad set of technologies, often in a series of interrelated initiatives. It starts with an evaluation of top organizational objectives and requires internal analysis of resources, organizational maturity, and technological gaps. Micro Focus is a channel-driven business and through our network of global partners, we assist customers to the advantage of their existing software investments while driving innovation by deploying emerging technologies, software, and critical tools to build, secure, and strengthen their operations. We help companies solve their digital dilemma by helping enterprises run and transform at the same time keeping business resilience as a priority. From strengthening security measures, moving to DevOps and agile, embracing software as a service or adopting emerging technologies like AI and analytics, we are investing in today’s challenges and tomorrow’s opportunities to support organization’s transformation now and into the future.
5. Which industry verticals are you currently focusing on? And what is your go-to-market strategy for the same?
We are witnessing increased digital appetite across sectors – BFSI, government and PSU, IT-ITES, etc. We are working with the Government of India on over 50% of India’s smart city projects, in Digital India projects such as BharatNet, State Data centers, and State-wide Area networks to aid citizen services under various programs. There has also been an increase in digital adoption in the IT-ITeS sector due to the growing need for digital capabilities and DevSecOps. We are also helping FSI and public sector clients in managing the increased number of concurrent users on their platforms through our load testing applications. We are assisting customers in the banking space to integrate automation into their application lifecycle for increased agility and performance.
We are a channel-focused enterprise, expanding our partner ecosystem through different initiatives and our global partner program. Almost 90% of our engagements with end customers are done with the help of our channel partners ensuring that we meet all the business demands of our customers across environments and sectors. Our partner program especially in the India and APJ region provides extended services and support to our channel partners through portfolio enhancements, training, and certifications, and upselling and cross-selling opportunities for high profitability and more opportunities.
6. What does your technology and business roadmap look like for the rest of the year?
With a robust and granular plan, we are set to achieve our core financial objectives for FY23, and we have a strong foundation to execute from. In 2022, we have introduced new digital, analytics, and cyber resilience capabilities and solutions in every portfolio to deliver higher outcomes in operation and customer satisfaction. Our reshaped consulting practice is aimed at delivering projects that will add value to our customers through greater agility and seamless software deployment. We are focused on delivering solutions in the six product groups of Application Modernization & Connectivity, Application Delivery Management, IT Operations Management, Cyber resilience, Information Management & Governance, and Vertica, the core analytical platform by Micro Focus. Our key areas of action in 2022 are helping enterprises adopt a product-centric mindset, secure their digital value chain, application modernization, and offer our array of professional services.
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