Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: James Dunlap, President of Cycle30 (Part 7)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: GCI created this “order to cash” service spin-off. Tell me more about what happened and what made you decide to make this move? Are you providing that same “order-to-cash” offering, which is cloud based, to various telecom and utility providers now?

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: James Dunlap, President of Cycle30 (Part 6)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: In bringing all of this together, what do you see as entrepreneurial opportunities? What are the blue-sky needs for newer solutions in cloud? It sounds like you have done something entrepreneurial yourself by taking this whole order to cash management to the cloud and spun it

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: James Dunlap, President of Cycle30 (Part 5)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: The scenarios that you have described where the workflow has changed significantly, do you see those as opportunities for other small vendors to come in and solve some of these problems with technology? Are there any vendors that are offering you ways to manage these kinds

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: James Dunlap, President of Cycle30 (Part 4)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: In terms of business models, what changes are there with the introduction of the cloud in your environments? The contracts and licensing deals that you had with these software vendors, did they all lend themselves naturally to your move to a cloud environment? JD: I wish

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: James Dunlap, President of Cycle30 (Part 3)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Can you talk a bit more about what these GCI order to cash components are, what vendors do they come from, and what the organizing principle of this environment is?

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: James Dunlap, President of Cycle30 (Part 2)

This section of the interview contains details on why GCI chose cloud and what are the components of their ‘order to cash’ workflow.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: James Dunlap, President Of Cycle30 (Part 1)

This is an interesting story that we are featuring as part of TLCC from telecom vertical. Read on for more insights on how the ‘order-to-cash’ work-flow for a mid-size telecom operator changed as they adopted cloud and gave them the flexibility they needed. James Dunlap shares his insights in this very interesting interview with Sramana.

Will Gannett Pull It Off?

I wrote several pieces on the newspaper industry: Newspapers, Roll Up, Newspapers, Wake Up, and the Pro-Am Debate. Gannett (GCI) publishes 90 daily newspapers, nearly 1,000 non-daily publications and 23 television stations in the US. In the UK, Gannett publishes 17 daily newspapers and around 300 non-daily publications. Gannett’s popular newspaper USA TODAY with a

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