Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Steven John, Strategic CIO Of Workday (Part 5)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg Sramana Mitra: In terms of your own operations at Workday now, I know you went across a couple of different organizations and you have been playing with the cloud. When an organization starts to move to the cloud, what are some of the first pieces of that

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August 11: Free Online 1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to pitch their businesses or attend this FREE online 1M/1M strategy roundtable on Thursday, August 11, 2011, starting at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. IST. You can find more details here and register here. We hope to see you there, all are welcome!

August 4 Roundtable Poll Winner

Irit Dabby’s GoodyTag was chosen the best business of those presented at yesterday’s roundtable through a poll on our 1M/1M Facebook page. Congratulations! In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here, read Sramana Mitra’s recap here and register for upcoming roundtables here.

Roundtable Recap: August 4 – How Do You Bootstrap Freemium Ventures?

During this week’s roundtable, we had Inoh Choe from San Jose, California, pitch DemoTunes, a freemium concept. One of the discussions that ensued was about how to bootstrap a freemium venture. I think this is a question on many minds, and we discussed it today as a core topic. DemoTunes DemoTunes is proposed to be

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August 4 Roundtable Recording

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Steven John, Strategic CIO Of Workday (Part 4)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg Sramana Mitra: Yes, that is a valid point. But where I was going with that question is that there are a large number of cloud providers operating today. There are the larger providers like Workday and a variety of larger public companies that are already doing very

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Steven John, Strategic CIO Of Workday (Part 3)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg Steven John: To get back to your original question about architecture points to keep in mind, because of the way the product is architected, we don’t have to customize and our customers don’t have to customize [as they did] in the old way of thinking about it.

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Steven John, Strategic CIO Of Workday (Part 2)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg Sramana Mitra: Yes, absolutely! So, Workday is kind of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) in the cloud solution, right? It does financial management as well as human capital management and a few other things.