Business transformation through cloud services

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Unlock the agility, efficiency and innovation of composable business services. EY Business transformation through cloud services helps organizations to turn technology disruption into value and builds long-term value for customers, people, society and business by innovating in the cloud.

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The team

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Davy Van Ingelgem

EY Belgium Technology Consulting Partner

Your business challenge | Solution features and functionality | Why EY | EY Alliance and Ecosystem Relationships

Agility

Use composable business services and innovation platforms of choice, built on global hyperscalers.

Innovation

Build the business capability to anticipate and create change while accelerating time-to-market and time-to-value.

Efficiency

Decrease operation costs by adopting scalable, agile architecture and using fit-for-purpose pricing models.

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Your business challenge

Evolving business models and emerging technologies are making exponential business adoption and growth possible. Leaders recognize that if they don’t adapt their technology strategy and cloud transformation to tomorrow’s customers, they will fall behind the competition.

On top of technology megatrends, leaders are contending with pressing industry questions:

Banking and capital markets: How can I leverage cloud technology for cost control and risk management?
Technology, media and telecommunications: How can cloud strategies enhance customer experience and employee workflows?
Government and public sector: How can I digitize public finance systems using technology and cloud for superior stakeholder experience?
Consumer products and retail: How can I expedite customer targeting with investments in technology and cloud?
Advanced manufacturing: How can cloud technology bring innovation, predictive maintenance and data-driven agility to supply chains and operations?
Life sciences and health: How can technology and cloud facilitate plant-to-patient analytics from disparate data sources?
Private equity: How can I best utilize the full cloud technology stack to satisfy investor expectations?
Insurance: How can a cloud strategy simplify costs while speeding up product innovation and time to market?

Solution features and functionality

EY teams bring deep experience in business domains and sector-specific innovation, allowing organizations to better translate their specific needs into a cogent technology and cloud strategy delivered by strong practitioners.

Define how emerging technology and cloud will drive their business ambitions based on customer, market, business and external insights.
Position technology investments to address core business challenges and opportunities.
EY teams leverage a track record of technology and cloud success to help organizations develop more secure, connected and harmonized ecosystems.

Translate a vision and strategy into effective business change, making enterprise architecture the steward of the transformation journey.
Make better technology investment decisions through improved re-use, build, buy decisions.
Embed architectural functions and processes within agile methodologies to drive innovation and support evolving business models.
EY teams deeply understand operating models that are agile, experience-driven, truly digital and execution-focused.

Define the “how” and “who” elements that bring structure, centers of excellences, agility, scalability and capabilities to deliver value for a high-performing IT organization.
Translate operating models into processes and organization structures with humans at the center.
Improve customer engagement through development and help delivery of solutions and services designed with the customer in mind.
Build organizational adaptability through adoption of agile methodologies and services models, helping organizations to rapidly pivot to address new opportunities.
Enhance customer centricity and ability to respond to opportunities as they arise, helping enable value creation opportunities.
Design flexible and scalable sourcing strategies and contemporary collaboration.
EY teams empower organizations to innovate and help deliver exponential business value.

Leverage cloud-native technologies and principles to help maximize business agility, scalability and efficiency.
Design operations, infrastructure and applications with a cloud-centric, and secure by design approach from inception.
EY teams have deep sector business resilience experience in the technology and cloud domains and understand regional risk profile differences.

Enhance the resiliency of the cloud-based systems and mitigate the impact of potential extreme digital service disruptions.
Build continuous availability, reliability and performance for applications and services.
EY teams focus on value-building technology and cloud strategies and have the experience to benchmark transformations against competitors.

Evaluate their position on a 'technology and cloud value index,' considering the risks and inhibitors to their ambitions.
Incorporate financial operations (FinOps) principles to help optimize financial accountability and benchmark against market and peer standards.
Support the justification (ROI) to stakeholders and secure further support for technology and cloud initiatives.
EY teams understand what cloud capabilities organizations need to build for business success.

Advise, identify, analyze, architect, design and implement new capabilities for cloud modernization and migration.
Enhance applications by rearchitecting onto the cloud, helping ensure optimal value contribution for business success.
Build improved cloud capabilities that streamline processes and help enable faster deployment of applications and services, increasing overall operational efficiency and agility.
Offload non-core activities by leveraging cloud services and partners, allowing them to focus on core business functions and strategic initiatives.
Accelerate product development and reduce time to market through enhanced cloud capabilities.
Simplify infrastructure through modern cloud architectures and services, reducing complexity and operational overhead.
EY teams leverage EY Industry Clouds with sector focus, providing industry-specific functionality tailored to the unique needs and requirements of businesses.

Accelerate enterprise SaaS journeys with SAP Rise, ServiceNow, EY industry Clouds with sector focus as well as Dynamics 365 and sustainability clouds.
Adopt SaaS solutions to expedite the delivery of new capabilities, allowing them to realize value quicker and respond rapidly to market changes.
Seamlessly integrate with other business applications and ecosystem partners, enhancing collaboration and data exchange.
Offload IT management to SaaS providers, allowing them to focus on core competencies and strategic initiatives.

Why EY

The EY organization has the experience, investment and depth of talent necessary to build value-driving technology and cloud strategies across different industries. We help organizations build next-gen cloud computing, powered by composable business systems and ecosystems, to accelerate their business plans and create long-term value.

EY Alliance and Ecosystem Relationships

The EY Partner Ecosystem will help you thrive. We collaborate, cocreate and innovate with leading organizations such as Microsoft, SAP, ServiceNow, IBM RedHat and Infosys to drive transformation, performance and growth. Our depth of cloud and technology capabilities and insights can help you to transform at speed and scale.

Cloud agenda

Learn how to capture hidden value in your business transformation with the cloud.

The team

Davy Van Ingelgem

EY Belgium Technology Consulting Partner

SAP transformation leader. Tech & Business integrator. Leads S/4HANA, SAP Finance & cFin, HR, Supply Chain, AI & Analytics, BTP, and cross-functional SAP programs. Passionate about Finance Innovation.

Diegem, Belgium

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