Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans

The Big Themes:

• Manufacturing is hot again: In this country there’s a Renaissance, I love it because I joined Thomas four years ago with the idea it is going to get white hot again.
• The millennial gene…

The Big Themes:

• The appetite for industry solutions is expanding in a very big way: Speaking the language of our customers is key.
• AI becomes much richer: The key element is how do you imagine the whol…

The Big Themes:

• Results based upon ~400 vetted project reviews: Completed by customers involved with the implementation of SAP, Oracle, and Workday within the past 24 months.
• On-budget delivery scores:…

The Big Themes:

• The business case for becoming a category creator in 2021: The “be different” category designers captured 51% of the revenue growth, and 80% of the market capitalization growth.
• Net wor…

The Big Themes:

• The economy is opening up: Are you ready? Businesses are developing new ways to delight customers and the federal government is about pump more capital into the market.
• Invest in capabi…

The Big Themes:

• We immediately solved all their networking and network security issues: Now we are enabling them to actually deploy – and now they’re looking at going beyond that first cloud and two o…

The Big Themes:

• Blending old and new communication channels: It’s that personal connection that we’re really pushing with many of our clients, and now we’re able to consult with several clients about …

The Big Themes:

• Digital question marks left and right: It’s the old BCG (Boston Consulting Group) matrix. Figuring out how to regenerate and develop their future cash cows.
• Everybody’s innovative: Most…

The Big Themes:

• No more looking in the rearview mirror: We’re talking about what we can do looking out at the front of the car, and how we can steer the car going forward.
• The CIO’s next adventure: You…

The Big Themes:

• Keep it simple: Your projects are complex but you must be able to distill your progress into an executive summary that can be absorbed in a minute or less.
• Deliver the bad news as early…

The Big Themes:

• Traditional on-premises databases to cloud databases: Gartner predicts that 75% of all databases will be deployed or migrated to the cloud by the end of next year.
• The terabyte transiti…

The Big Themes:

• What does Remote 2.0 look like? As the world starts to open up what will office work look like? Many companies are announcing that they will offer remote work in perpetuity. Other comp…

The Big Themes:

• Technical debt: If you write off $0.42 during a $100M bank reconciliation, I guess you created ‘financial debt,’ but so what? It’s the Enron’s of the tech debt realm that warrant atten…

The Big Themes:

• Andy Jassy is now the CEO of Amazon: The force of nature that is Jeff Bezos is going to be executive chairman.
• Databricks and Snowflake are going neck-and-neck: Databricks closed a bill…

The Big Themes:

• Living up to the hype: Whether you’re talking about cloud applications, or cloud infrastructure, it’s a huge accelerator.
• Put it in a giant backpack: You just carry it over to the publi…

The Big Themes:

• The Autonomous Digital Enterprise (ADE): A roadmap for companies putting a lot of focus on providing solutions for customers, and to help them accelerate this with technologies such as…

The Big Themes:

• Know your why. Don’t do projects with unclear outcomes or that do not solve a defined business issue/goal. Digital transformation only works if there’s actually a business transformati…

The Big Themes:

• Not so Unified Communications. As many/most companies have shifted to some version of remote work, we’re seeing both the benefits but also the limitations of video communications.
• Virtu…

The Big Themes:

• Authentic dialogue is dying in America: Stanford Research shows us that people are caring more about themselves and less for others.
• Good conversationalist vs. “selfie”: Many people thi…

The Big Themes:

• Last mile networking – down to last few feet: Data to/from the edge will skyrocket in quantity and in value.
• IT risk-awareness rises: Cybersecurity attacks are on the rise. Russia, Chin…