WEEKLY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMY NEWSPAPER
Bringing together ICT managers and providing a fertile environment for sharing knowledge and experience related to the industry; the CIO Vision Meeting was held with great interest and participation this year. The event was sponsored by QlikView and Intel Security and Digital Transformation was discussed. This year’s meeting topic was “Digital Transformation and Cloud Strategies”. The sector’s most professional and competent members discussed how companies are preparing for digital transformation how road maps are shaped, what kind of difficulties are faced by CIOs and what would be the advantages of Digital Transformation. Informatics Association of Turkey İstanbul Branch President Ahmet Tosunoğlu delivered the opening speech and various presentations were made afterwards. The most interesting of those belong to Bahçeşehir University Faculty of Medicine Dean Prof. Türker Kılıç invited to the meeting to add a different perspective to this year’s meeting and to interpret the informatics concept in an unorthodox way titled “Brain, Consciousness, Life”. The brain is perceived as an information machine In his presentation, Prof. Kılıç talked about the changing theory of brain and stressed that our perception of life changed and we now see technology with a very different perspective. Prof. Kılıç stated that: “We do not perceive brain anymore as a piece of meat created by a hundred billion neurons. We now perceive it as an information machine including 2 over 100 billion possibilities. With this point of view, the brain is not just defined as a process center enabling body balance but also an organ creating mind.” With this new point of view, Prof. Kılıç mentioned about the Human Connectom Project aiming at explaining with which mathematical model the brain creates mind and he stated that the scientists now question whether life can be explained via a mathematical system with this project. Kılıç mentioned about everything that exists has a response as information and brain is an information
CIO’s discussed Digital Transformation The sixth of CIO Vision meetings co-organized by Turkey Informatics Association and BThaber was held recently.
mechanism making sense of life by processing this information. Revealed by Maxwell in 1867 and questioned by theoretical physicists; “Can you transform information into energy?” question was among the highly discussed topics at the European Academy of Science and Art last year. Stating that Maxwell showed that it was possible via his experiment carried out in 1867; Kılıç said that an experiment was realized this year in Japan using this idea in generating energy of a cooling system. QlikView Turkey Consultancy Support Director Emre Çabuk made a presentation during the event and talked about the data in this digitalized world topic. Whenever the digitalization issue is mentioned, everyone is focuses on data said Emre Çabuk and added that as QlikView, their approach to the subject includes data flow actualizing from information technologies towards business units while data transforming into information and the data being transformed into information by business units. Explaining the reason behind; Emre Çabuk highlighted that business units would like to have easy technologies that they use daily in the business environment. He stated that
due to the generally central structure of the information technologies; they are in a constant quarrel with business units on permissions and authorizations and QlikView addresses those problems to create solutions. Expressing that they aim to create a synergy between business units and information technology using information; Çabuk stressed that overcoming these problems is possible with digitalization. As QlikView believes, the owner of data is business units rather than IT and they offer a platform combining data and conveying it to business units. Emre Çabuk ended his presentation with a demo of Qlik Sense product. The routine is broken in security Speaking in the CIO Vision Meeting, Intel Security Turkey & Azerbaijan Regional Director İlkem Özar with a speech title of “The routine is broken in security” stated that organizations’ working, making innovations and growing securely is a must. Özar stressed upon the importance of trained manpower in the field of cyber security for the successful implementation of the security strategies. İlkem Özar drew attention to digital
transformation in her speech pointed as an indispensable a part of every business today and added: “Customers now want to get immediate service from all communication channels regardless of time and location, and this makes digital transformation inevitable. This process of change with a wide quality from finance to manufacturing, from marketing to human resources has an impact on the processes of all institutions. Even some institutions are hiring Digital Transformation Leaders in order to manage digital transformation accurately. Similarly, the security should be managed by established organizations and the number of institutions should increase which take a step in that direction.” We adapted a great structure into the digital world Albayrak Holding CIO Erdal Nalbant mentioned about a great structure’s digital transformation process in his speech titled “Digital Journey” reminding that Albayrak Holding consists of 79 active companies. He stated that the IT infrastructure of the company is taken over by Albil Central Services. According to Nalbant, they aim to overlap
their actions in IT side with the business units and stated that in our day and age IT departments are asked to take actions to contribute revenues. Besides; by the strategic decision taken in 2013, they carried all the media servers to the cloud. This means that the availability of media companies in the holding structure was highly increased. We are increasing our service quality by digital transformation Doğtaş and Kelebek Information Technologies Manager Yavuz Selim Hindistan told the story in which they went through digital transformation within the company. As a company, they aimed at improving the quality of the services they provide to its customers and took the digital transformation journey according to Yavuz Selim Hindistan. They also established a rapid and flexible platform in all distributors to collect value adding data. Thanks to the application they put it into practice, all forms of customer needs are noted on computers and tablets and being digitally processed and Hindistan stated that they use SaaS software as a service and talked about Minerva system and its features.