By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini Sramana: What do you see in terms of the broader evolution of the cloud computing adoption in your mid-market, say the $200 million–$500 million band? It seems to be an industry segment where cloud computing is a blessing, where you don’t have to spend as much money
By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini Sramana: In the remaining time, I would like to brainstorm with you about what you see as potential entrepreneurial opportunities in the cloud computing domain. I run an initiative called 1 Million by 1 Million. It is an initiative to help a million entrepreneurs reach $1 million
By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini Sramana: These third-party companies are the ones with which you already work. You are not bringing in third-party companies that are specific to different vendors and their technologies? Scott: That is correct. Sramana: I see. Is that because you trust these integration vendors? Scott: We already have
By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini Sramana: Let’s say a vendor came along and said that they would provide you exactly what your consumer packaged goods (CPG) specific analytics vendors are offering, that the same functionality, all that vertical domain knowledge, but with respect to CPG on top of SAP data or Oracle
By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini Sramana: Is your architecture a private cloud, or is it hosted on a vendor’s site? Scott: Well, we have a mix of both depending on the applications themselves. In the case of some new applications that we may implement in the future, we are having that debate
In this interview Scott Martin, CIO at Nonni’s Foods,shares his insights with Sramana on how CIOs can harness technologies such as cloud computing and drive operational efficiency not only in IT but also across sales and billing with a positive impact on core business activities and functionalities.