Angela Gahagan Country manager for Africa: Verizon Business SA

The next wave of IT will be about increasing business agility. Business agility is critical, as it allows for organisational growth, and growth is key to any successful company, whether it’s geographic expansion, increasing market share, entering new segments or improving profitability, no successful organisation ever stands still. In the modern business arena, a company needs to be able to move quickly, so it needs to ensure that its systems and its ICT infrastructure are streamlined in such a way as to enable the business to remain nimble, by moving away from the concept of multi-legacy applications and consolidating its infrastructure to give it the ability to react quickly to changing market conditions.