Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans

The Big Themes:• Oracle runs its end-to-end business on Oracle Cloud, which Doug says enables them to deliver improved experiences to customers and its own employees.• The key outcome of the shift to a services-based business: As a cloud provider, Oracle’s culture has become one where everyone is expected to ask, ‘how can I help?’• Doug is focused on removing friction points between the customer and achieving business value. For example, today, about 90% of Oracle’s customer contracts are executed through a fully-automated system, giving customers quicker access to its cloud services and a path to faster business outcomes.Doug says it’s critical to have a “Relentless focus on continuously evaluating how you’re doing.” He emphasizes that transformation is never finished, and Oracle’s own cloud journey has given its people unique insight into customers’ challenges that they can use to help other companies achieve the same. --This episode is brought to you by Oracle.

The Big Themes:The lessons of the pandemic response - Stacy says she and her colleagues discovered that WSU as an institution could be much more nimble and fast-moving than they might have thought beforeChange management when moving to the cloud - Workday's systems revolutionized the employee experience at WSU, which involved some challenges but mostly major benefitsEvolution in the CFO role and in higher ed in general - a need for flexibility and the breaking down of silos are key themes prompting change in both areasThe Big Quote: "Everything's going to involve money. It's all going to involve technology, high-level decisions about impacts, the need for data analysis and all of that... I think it's a welcomed change that those silos will be broken down, not just for the CFO, but for other leaders at the campuses."--This episode is brought to you by Workday.

The Big Themes:• The Web3 breakthrough: basically anything that is built on the blockchain is considered Web3, and Chris believes that it represents a bit of a return to idealism in tech.• Data is under hyped: it might sound crazy, but Chris says that the vast potential of data is still expanding and being discovered.• Native Digitals vs. Native Analogs: the fact that people under 35 grew up with technology represents perhaps the largest change in the definition of what it means to be human, ever.The Big Quote: "I don't know why this isn't being reported widely—in 2021 venture investors invested 15 billion into Web3 / blockchain."This episode is brought to you by BMC Software.

The Big Themes:• What is talent intelligence? The application of data relating to people, skills, jobs, functions, competitors, geographies, to drive business decisions.• What are the core data sets used for TI? The bread and butter data sets are demand, supply, and cost.• Beyond the job title: TI can be used to source candidates based on skillsets that a company is looking for, not just specific titles.The Big Quote: "If you ask any CEO, what's their biggest asset? It's their people. What's their biggest risk for the future? It's access to the right people."This episode is sponsored by BMC Software.

The Big Themes:CFOs looking beyond financial data - interconnected parts of the business like HR are equally important to understanding performanceData access is a game-changer for quick decision-making - the disruptions caused by Covid-19 forced WestMed to make huge calls about the business without delay Taking your time when setting up cloud-based systems - Anthony explains why he was so hands-on and methodical when implementing Workday systemsThe Big Quote: "Workday was really the first big investment into a cloud-based offering that we had. It was definitely new to us, there was a lot of things we needed to understand about it. But once you're operating on it, you wonder why we hadn't done this sooner."--This episode is brought to you by Workday.

The Big Themes:• Three tenets of data: (1) data volumes keep growing in size and complexity, (2) business leaders are always looking for new ways to extract value from data, and (3) it's all about data security and governance.• John's predictions fall into two buckets: (1) the competitive landscape, and (2) the technology innovation and architecture• Overall, customers are becoming a top priority when it comes to data, both in terms of understanding customers thru data and empowering customers thru new data-driven capabilitiesThe Big Quote: "The immovable objects are meeting irresistible forces, and by immovable objects, I mean, the incumbents, and by irresistible forces, I mean, the startups."--This episode is brought to you by BMC Software.

The Big Themes:• The power of relationships: The deal between Thomas and Xometry probably wouldn’t have happened without a trusting relationship.• Helping small and medium-sized companies grow: Xometry developed a way for smaller manufacturers to be able to take on bigger projects and grow their businesses.• Digital transformation inevitably leads to business model transformation: For business leaders it's an important time to find ways to look at your business differently.The Big Quotes:• “We announced yesterday that Thomas has been acquired by Xometry, an on-demand manufacturing marketplace.”• “The exciting union of these two companies will help accelerate the digital transformation of manufacturing.”• “If you embrace the idea that you could do things differently, or do things that you didn't before, I find that that pace of change is less frightening.”This episode is brought to you by BMC Software.

The Big Themes:• Vendors did a great job: But played to type.• Work From Home/Work From Anywhere culture: Omicron delaying return to the office again. Employment market and stock market point at even more.• Workplace culture evolves: The ‘Screen-ish generation’ (Millennials) doesn’t see f2f as the ideal. The ‘Screen Generation’ (GenZ) lives on screens/games/async comm.• Reminiscent of RPA market: Start with workflow, BPM, doc management. Add scripting and interfaces and templates. Voila! Huge multiples.The Big Quotes:“I want my electricity to come from a socket in the wall. And so it's changing the way we operate.”“We'll all have a Hollywood Squares box like you and I are in.”“Why are we making office workers – who are in theory the force multipliers of the company, the analysts, the managers, the thinkers, the changers.”This episode is brought to you by BMC Software.

The Big Themes:• Good scope = good outcome. And the opposite is almost always true!• Massive personnel turnover. Services firms and their clients need to find new ways to minimize disruptions caused by job changes.• A very clear timeline: Those simple sort of project hygiene type of things really make a big difference in the success of the project.• Software vendors have their own issues: Partners and customers are changing rapidly, and those changes are not limited to personnel.The Big Quotes:“They felt like it made their job 10 times more difficult because of the lack of travel they enjoy as part of being a consultant.”“It was actually a refreshing experience especially with little face-to-face interaction due to the pandemic.”This episode is brought to you by BMC Software.

The Big Themes:• Well-represented by this flag: We hope other countries have organizations that feel that way about their flags.• Someone's putting on space helmet: They're talking about the paradigm shift from big conventional wars and theaters.• A winning mindset: There is a standard of behavior that says we are going to act this way, and we are going to behave within structure within this mindset.• Not about the money: There's lots of job opportunities – and going to go where they can be the most happy.The Big Quotes:“They're going to stop working there. They're going to somewhere else.”This episode is brought to by BMC Software.