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Date Published
Author
Ed Blankenship
Word count
988
Language
English
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None

Summary

Companies faced unprecedented challenges in 2020, accelerating their digitization by three to four years and increasing digitally enabled products in their portfolios by seven years, according to a McKinsey Global Survey. However, scaling those digital wins is crucial for future success. As businesses grow, technology infrastructure must adapt to support increased complexity, sophistication, integration with new technologies, and accelerated speed to market. To ensure scalability, businesses should consider various types of growth, including volume increases, changes in workflows, governance, supporting technology, and security needs. They should also ask questions about capacity, spikes, fees, penalties, complex workflows, governance, integration with other tools, global scale, diverse business cases, granular permissions, roles, translation, localization, currency, legal, regulatory requirements, download speed, and reliability. Choosing an experienced technology partner can help navigate these challenges and ensure enterprise-grade availability, disaster recovery, performance, security, and compliance policies. Ultimately, a platform must be able to support accelerated growth across seven dimensions of scale.