Integrating the Modern Cloud/AI-Enabled Enterprise: The New Challenge for Emerging Companies

Emerging companies today rapidly collect a jumbled basket of cloud applications and services. Employees pull out their credit cards and sign up for all kinds of subscription services in a decentralized and disorganized free for all.  These will soon be upgraded to AI agents performing all manner of functions to make employees more productive.

Ad-hoc adoption of cloud services can be fine initially, but as a company grows it can quickly become unmanageable, creating many bottlenecks and points of friction for employees and management. Integration and management of this expanding solution portfolio is now a priority.

By knitting together solutions from the expanding universe of cloud/AI offerings, companies can now achieve a secure and scalable operating state faster and more affordably than ever, creating a strong foundation for company growth.  Some applications interact and require bespoke integrations, introducing a new level of complexity.  The evolving ecosystem needs to be managed as a whole, and each component monitored for security and compliance purposes.  New IT expertise and practices are needed to cope with these new realities of modern enterprises.

“In the future, IT departments will become the HR department of AI agents” … onboarding and training different types of AI agents and provisioning them to employees.” – Jen-Hsun Huang, CES Keynote address

Leveraging a good plan, this foundation for growth can be built in phases, with modest resources and without derailing key employees.  The key is starting with the goal in mind and following a roadmap as the company grows.  In this white paper you will learn about the new sources of complexity for an emerging company in managing a dynamic cloud/AI-based IT environment, with specific recommendations for addressing the new challenges.