Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans

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 un…

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 …

The Big Themes:

• CFOs looking beyond financial data - interconnected parts of the business like HR are equally important to understanding performance
• Data access is a game-changer for quick decision-mak…

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 da…

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:…

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 a…

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 c…

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 pa…

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 w…

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 …

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 …

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…

The Big Themes:
• Hyper focused on the four markets in regulated industries: Healthcare, telecommunications, financial services and government.
• IBM's heritage is in the mid office and the back …

The Big Themes:
Public cloud operating model: Maybe there was more governance requirements, more security. We are seeing now customers becoming more thoughtful.
Endless pots of gold: The one big thing …

The Big Themes:
• The Baby Boomers are retiring: Further accelerating the need to deal with mainframes.
• FinTech as an example: Old brick and mortar banks and investment firms have had mainframe…

The Big Themes:
• The great resignation is effecting projects: What are some of the key findings or trends about these transformations? What was different in Q3?
• What are the biggest reasons pr…

The Big Themes:
• Facebook is evil: It’s a lot like going to work for Philip Morris 30 years ago. We should continue to invest in solving the world’s problems.
• Tesla is undervalued: Tesla is a …

The Big Themes:
• We just launched a new channel: Reflecting this global business phenomenon, it’s called the data revolution—and it’s turning the business world upside-down.
• Mining for gold: G…

The Big Themes:
• The real story behind the supply chain: There are not enough skilled workers in manufacturing, logistics, distribution, and trucking.
• Combination of technology and innovative …

The Big Themes:
• The solution is a production database: So there’s a big period of time when I have two different data sources. And you run the report off that database.
• We learned about Chest…