Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 48 | Page 41

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// the region’s deep Internet penetration, has meant dynamic shifts in some key industries. “Financial services is a great example of a vertical that is going through a massive transformation,” said Murphy. “There is a great deal of new competition that is challenging established banks to change their customer interactions. Even a few years ago, banking customers would go online and use Internet banking, but now they expect all of their financial services to be available on mobile and they expect their experience to be personalised.” www.intelligentcio.com FEATURE: DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION One of the major pitfalls of the Digital Transformation journey, says Murphy, is the tendency to want to circumvent legacy systems to implement the latest in the market. Customers, she says, try to set up a separate project entirely, going around the existing system. “Micro Focus helps our customers to bridge the old and the new. Instead of going around legacy systems, we enable mission critical applications and data to continue to be leveraged so that customers can maximise their ROI,” said Murphy. “We Genefa Murphy, Chief Marketing Officer at Micro Focus INTELLIGENTCIO 41