Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Steven John, Strategic CIO Of Workday (Part 8)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg Sramana Mitra: Do you have any other thoughts on entrepreneurship directions, ideas, or open problems? Steven John: Sure. I think there are some interesting things. I am helping to set up ecosystem architectures because we are not used to that in IT; we are used to connecting

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Steven John, Strategic CIO Of Workday (Part 7)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg Sramana Mitra: All that being said, right now we are also doing a parallel series on outsourcing, and outsourcing as an industry is absolutely booming. The players, the vendors and the segment are all doing really well, and I think that will continue for a while. I

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Steven John, Strategic CIO Of Workday (Part 6)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg Sramana Mitra: OK. That covers some of the security and fault tolerance issues. Now, what about the organization? Especially since you are in the area of human capital management? Both from the perspective of a CIO hat plus that fact that you are serving a product that

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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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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.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Steven John, Strategic CIO Of Workday (Part 1)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg About Workday Workday’s mission is to build the next generation of enterprise business services—human capital management, financial management, and payroll—and deliver its solutions through a Software as a Service (SaaS) model. Founded by former PeopleSoft founder and CEO Dave Duffield with former PeopleSoft vice chairman and head of product strategy Aneel Bhusri in March

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