Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Marc Ferrentino, CTA Of Salesforce (Part 4)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Siddharth Garg Marc Ferretino: Whether it is field services, even if it is even recruiting an HR person or [dealing with] IT services, they have basically built all these applications that they are innovating. They are trying new things, and in their case they don’t have to focus all

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Marc Ferrentino, CTA Of Salesforce (Part 3)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg Sramana Mitra: So, following your terminology, systems of differentiation is where software as a service is playing, and systems of innovation, the more experimental zone, is where platform as a service is gaining adoption?

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Marc Ferrentino, CTA Of Salesforce (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: So, let’s talk about the concept of platform as a service a bit more. How do you view the world today? There are obviously different camps emerging. There is the Salesforce.com stack, so to speak, and then there is the Azure stack, the Google app engine and a [Google] stack emerging. But there

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Marc Ferrentino, CTA Of Salesforce (Part 1)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg About Salesforce Salesforce.com is an enterprise cloud computing company headquartered in San Francisco that distributes business software on a subscription basis. Salesforce.com hosts the applications offsite. It is best known for its customer relationship management (CRM) products and, through acquisition, has expanded into the area of social enterprise. It has been one of cloud computing’s biggest champions

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Jay Leader CIO, Of iRobot (Part 1)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Siddharth Garg and Rahul Nagpal About iRobot iRobot designs and builds robots that make a difference. iRobot was founded in 1990 when Massachusetts Institute of Technology roboticists Colin Angle and Helen Greiner teamed up with their professor Dr. Rodney Brooks with the vision of making practical robots a reality.

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Frank Modruson, CIO of Accenture (Part 9)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Siddharth Garg and Rahul Nagpal Sramana: Yes, you can’t have a baby crying at the top of its voice and be able to maintain a professional environment where you need to maybe be on phone and such. There are some issues. Frank: Right, and not everybody is in the

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Frank Modruson, CIO of Accenture (Part 8)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Siddharth Garg and Rahul Nagpal Sramana Mitra: Whenever we see discontinuities in terms of technology in our industry, this opens up opportunities for entrepreneurship. It opens up what’s happening at the cusp. I would be curious to hear your thoughts on blue-sky opportunities that you see that playing to

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Frank Modruson, CIO of Accenture (Part 7)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Siddharth Garg and Rahul Nagpal Sramana: And turn it all into products? Frank: Well, not so much turn it into anything in particular. I have a feeling that there is a lot of stuff that is either very old and not in sync with business, or of very limited

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