The headline is that IBM InterConnect is transforming the enterprise to digital, but as John Furrier and Dave Vellante, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, discussed, there are some gaps in the program.

Building the digital transformation

Vellante remarked how Bluemix is building out a strategy that allows customers to build their own digital strategy, digital assets and take them to market. “What IBM is doing with Bluemix is building services in that are essentially facilitating that transformation for customers,” he said.

For Furrier, the first order of business is developers, but IBM has to follow through on this. “IBM needs to embrace the developer community and use Bluemix to follow through on open source,” he stated.

A new identity

Furrier believes that people want their own identity. “A new paradigm is coming about; you’re seeing things like fingerprints, you’re seeing biometrics and you’re seeing selfies,” he said. “There is a new way of identity, and no one has cracked the code on that and cloud exposes the opportunity, but also exposes the weaknesses. This is directly related to security, and this is the subtext of this event.”

How do I?

Furrier and Vellante both see issues with IBM enabling its customers to make the transformation. They are calling for a playbook. “This issue is on the customer side. IBM’s customers are the ones feeling the pain,” he said. “So IBM has to move their organization in a position to be more agile and to take the demands (of the customer) and build them into the next-generation architecture.”

Watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of IBM InterConnect 2016. And join in on the conversation by CrowdChatting with theCUBE hosts.

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