8 TECH OUTLOOKMARCH-APRIL, 2017Three Lenses Shaping Digital Transformation By Silji Abraham, CIO, MilliporeSigmaThere is, perhaps, no better time on Earth to be a scientist. The acceleration of digitalization in life science over the next few years will enable a scientist to find answers to questions which used to take weeks in just a matter of minutes. The distracting business of manually dealing with logging experiments, re-ordering supplies and other administration duties of the lab will no longer take precious time away from breakthrough thinking. And, breakthrough thinking will thrive. Replicating experiments consistently from multiple locations will be done from a researcher's smart phone or tablet. Discussion and collaboration about potentially life-altering discoveries and next steps in research findings will happen as effortlessly as a teen Facetime's her friends on the bus ride to school. While deep advancements have been taking place in the fields of gene editing, personalized patient care and diagnostics and therapies, behind the scenes a new backbone for the digitization of our industry has been constructed frame by frame. The future of digital in our industry is going to be distributed cloud computing based platforms for discovery, collaboration and product research and purchase. The benefits will be felt by both researchers and procurement professionals as we build on the shoulders of the open source innovations offered to the software community by the big names in digital to innovate further.This will offer a no-fail architecture with sub-second response from any connected device anywhere in the world. As you might imagine, it is only in this kind of elastic infrastructure that we can truly realize the benefits of emerging tech science to help us run faster in our efforts to save lives and restore health to those in need.In My Opinion
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