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Cloud Computing
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 is a human capital management product, how has the IT organization changed with your extensive adoption of the cloud? And how are you seeing this in the larger community? >>>
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 are being moved? In your opinion, what are some of the first pieces that should be moved to the cloud? >>>
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SAP (NYSE:SAP), the largest maker of business management software, last week reported a strong second quarter and said it will reach the high end of its forecasts. SAP’s $5.8 billion acquisition of database specialist Sybase last year has helped the company to realize its vision of in-memory computing and broadened its reach in mobile platforms. Let’s take a closer look.
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 large [implementations] and servicing a large number of customers. Those are more robust in format, but there are lots of very small companies operating that are running cloud services and have customers. My thought is that maybe they are not all that safe. >>>
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. They don’t have to write code per se; we were able to go in and configure things to meet their needs, and if we can’t, our development cycle is so different from past development cycles, which were over many years, three, four, or six years, and you would have a major upheaval that concerned all resources and cost millions of dollars to update, and a lot of companies skipped it because of how painful it was. >>>
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 2005, Workday aims to offer a fresh approach for today’s global businesses. >>>
Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Marc Ferrentino, CTA Of Salesforce (Part 11)
By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg
Sramana Mitra: And we are building – now I am putting my computer scientist hat on and we are designing scalable distributed systems. So, we have One Million by One Million entrepreneurs from all over the world. This is a completely virtual program that we envision as something that is going to teach this kind of entrepreneurship to millions of people, and that is a very complex system to design, right? >>>