Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans

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. Visit Cloud Wars for more.

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. Visit Cloud Wars for more.

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. Visit Cloud Wars for more.

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. Visit Cloud Wars for more.

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. Visit Cloud Wars for more.

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. Visit Cloud Wars for more.

The Big Themes:• The ability to tailor applications: A top CFO concern is tax management, and must be addressed on an end-to-end basis.• The right foundation: It's been a big change from when we relied on it to give us reports and manage the data model.• Transforming and enriching data: How a single, unified data model can turn operational data into accounting entries posted into the general ledger.• CEOs are demanding cloud-based ERP: An end-to-end solution breaks down silos, accelerates insights, and drives better and faster decisions.The Big Quotes:“It's really an exciting time right now to be in finance.”“For us adding or changing a legal entity or a business unit, maybe a division or even a currency is quick and easy.”“I like to think about it as the two T's--technology and talent--and talent is definitely on everyone's mind today.” Visit Cloud Wars for more.

The Big Themes:• It’s important to pick the right horse: In terms of transformation, in terms of collaboration, communication culture, in terms of DevOps and engineering culture, in the spirit of becoming a digital company.• Can do a lift and shift: Choosing a path now with our entire executive team and over 500 people and 3,000 – 4,000 customers.• The model would guide us eventually: To land in a place where we can definitively prove that we continue to deliver value because if we don't they'll stop spending and then we're out of business.• People want to do impactful work: This is the place where you're going to be on the leading edge of what's possible because you're literally using a platform which is limited only by your imagination in terms of what you can achieve.The Big Quotes:“And it takes a significant amount of effort, but we love playing that role specifically because we're so passionate about the outcome.”“We've got more than 28 regions. We've got plans for 10 more. We've got the largest network with the lowest latency of any cloud provider.”“I loved the library when I was a kid and I love it even more now because now the library is the world.” Visit Cloud Wars for more.

The Big Themes:• Every industry has gone through some profound changes: But when you shift online, there are significant challenges in understanding where do you position inventory?• There are breaches all the time: Because almost every cyber breach is like a black swan event. Before the breach, the organization thought it was secure.• Building large scale consumer services: We now want all our clients to be able to stand on our shoulders as we support them on what they're trying to do.• Look in the rear view mirror: Our goals are to help organizations. We truly believe the important challenges and our mission is to help clients with their most important challenges.The Big Quotes:“How do you broaden the nature of the products and services, as well as how do you broaden the reach of the financial market?”“But working with Ikea, we learned a lot from them on how to make such an experience possible.”“And so people will want to cherish some aspects of how they work with that along with obviously being in the office, ideating with their colleagues and working.” Visit Cloud Wars for more.

The Big Themes:• Now you can put your own paint on it: That's going to be a terrific thing for the clients, the buyers into next year and the year after.• It's a mindset change: Message for the board and for the CEO is to think about whether you're really changing the nature of the business.• The secret sauce for the vertical: We have to work in the wider ecosystem of that industry, whether it's healthcare, retail, manufacturing, or financial services.The Big Quotes:“I've got an article coming out later this week or next week on Acceleration Economy where I define the term digital transformation – and the opposite.”“Downside of this you got to get on this bandwagon, or the acceleration is going to flatten you like roadkill.”“We don't have to worry about things like servers and storage and networks anymore as ITP, and neither do the vendors.”This episode is brought to by BMC Software. Visit Cloud Wars for more.