Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans

The Big Themes:

• I’ve got 99 problems and tech ain’t one of them: It’s almost never a technology issue. It’s usually a people problem.
• The technologists out there: Many technologists can be overly focus…

The Big Themes:

• Declare dominion over your work: Agency is working for something greater than a paycheck. When you love what you do, you have nothing to “balance.”
• Who is your Archimedes: “If you give …

The Big Themes:

• According to the Association for Manufacturing Technology: In order to reshore 25% of the manufactured goods currently imported from China, US manufacturers will need to invest $400-$6…

The Big Themes:

• A wealth of riches that we are so privileged to have: They serve as a kind of innovation pipeline in addition to our R&D teams.
• The default data was your data: I think the concept of da…

The Big Themes:

• The Colonial Pipleline hack: Wake-up call for boards and C-Suites. I’ve worked in utilities industry several times, and a hack in your OT system can kill people.
• Industry networks are n…

The Big Themes:

• A lot of exciting things happening: Gartner is estimating that 75% of databases will be migrated to the cloud or be launched in the cloud by the end of next year.
• Big Data startup Ocien…

The Big Themes:

·      I’m in the midst of writing a book: Everybody does it, but what’s exciting are the insights I’ll get to share from some remarkable people I’ve talked to.

·      Purpose and cultu…

The Big Themes:

• Old-school/new school: The big search firms have some really good assessment programs, but tie a formalized assessment program into succession planning.
• The CEO sets the tenor of the co…

The Big Themes:

• Servicing large enterprises for 100 years: So it’s just a natural motion to actually have this form factor there.
• Reimagining what you do: Everything has entropy, and they calcify and a…

The Big Themes:

• Digital transformation is off the charts: But is the customer experience any better as a result of all this digital transformation?
• Poll this week with my inner circle: Over half said c…

The Big Themes:

• It’s all about orchestrating the work: If you really step back and start with our customer’s customer, you need to do different things from different industries.
• How businesses are rede…

The Big Themes:

• We’ve been having multi-cloud and hybrid cloud for quite some time: Without a lot of churn or having to rip out some core solutions that they’ve been using.
• Our unique AI, ML capabiliti…

The Big Themes:

• Extremely unique in the industry: It’s not just about verticalizing one aspect of the cloud service – it’s bringing verticalization across the cloud services in a unified and seamless …

The Big Themes:

• Heading back to the office: The pendulum is swinging back in the other direction, and B2B or B2C becoming artificial boundaries.
• That’s part of our DNA: We’re a company that’s built aro…

The Big Themes:

• Turnover in a post-pandemic world. It appears that we’re going to see a higher level of turnover in companies as we come out of the pandemic. A year of forced locked down, a strong eco…

The Big Themes:

• Tens of thousands of people working in our vertical business: They have deep vertical knowledge and apply to some of our horizontal products, like ERP and CX.
• General contractors and su…

The Big Themes:

• We launched the Cloud Database Report in February: Sign up now via the Cloud Wars website.
• Moving data to the cloud is more complicated than it seems: Will your next database migration …

The Big Themes:

• Roaring 20’s redux: Fed Chair Jerome Powell said that the economy was at an inflection point: 6%-7% or more growth, and unemployment 4%-5%.
• Two books on strategy: “Post Corona: From Cri…

The Big Themes:

• $5 billion building and rewriting modern cloud apps: In the last few years we’ve really had all the ingredients, the products, the market, the technology – and so we’ve pushed it hard.
• …

The Big Themes:

• Pet peeves: Not every manager is a leader. When you need a leader but hire a manager, you quickly realize that you’ve either hired the wrong person, or the wrong team—and it’s usually …