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Quail works with vendors and suppliers . He explains : “ We ’ ve had to segment our vendors between traditional IT vendors , such as IBM , Oracle , SAP and a new set of digital enablers like , Amazon , Deloitte and Microsoft , which has also completely transformed itself recently from behaving like one of the more traditional ‘ mega vendors ’ to an organisation that is really helping us on our digital agenda to set up services very quickly and at a very low cost . And we ’ re working with others , for example , we ’ ve got an app development platform run by a leading enterprise mobility company called Kony . Again , very low cost to deliver solutions ; very agile and interactive with the business . It ’ s the same story with Sigma 7 field-based solutions for our field operatives . There is still a place for the traditional vendors to support our industrial , high availability systems of record but these digital enablers are the type of vendors we ’ re working with to learn how we do things differently . How we can deliver different type of solutions that perhaps we haven ’ t thought about before .”

So , Quail says , a story was presented to SGN ’ s board about how the company needed to change to embrace the changing technology landscape , from mobility solutions , big data , cloud computing and social media to all the technology advancements such as robotics , drones , the Internet of things and more . And the board was , well , on-board . As an organisation , SGN is rising to the challenge of a digital transformation .

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