Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans

Central Casting Meets The Software Project | Tinder on Customers

16 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:• The Ambassador: Excited about the project and are telling everyone about it. They’ll be the first ones that post their go-live...

Building for Data is Mission-Critical: Ed Anuff of DataStax

15 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:• It just doesn’t magically happen: It’s not the data you already have, this is one of the hard lessons that lot of folks think.•...

$27B for Slack: Bargain for Benioff | Ammirati on Innovation

07 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:• You've got great leaders at the top of the house: In both those companies you really understand innovation.• One of our ven...

Disruption Is Headed Your Way | Uphoff on Industry

26 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:• A fascinating cultural shift: The millennial generation’s increasing dissatisfaction with “knowledge work” and the increas...

The Digital CFO: an Action Plan | Sadin on Digital

19 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Accenture ransomware: Accenture’s response – they quickly detected, defended, and repaired. So far, it appears to be only a low-val...

The Acceleration Economy: Buckle Up! | Courneya on Acceleration

17 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:The “T” in Teamwork: Why employees with breadth and depth are imperative for harmonizing organizational goals and culture. We call ...

SAP S/4HANA Product Chief Jan Gilg

11 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

As President of SAP S/4HANA, Jan Gilg oversees development of SAP's flagship ERP product, digital supply chain, and industry solutions. In this conver...

The Goldilocks Software Strategy | Tinder on Customers

05 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Like Goldilocks' testing out the three different sized chairs: This one is too big, this one is too small—this one is JUST RIGHT. Mid...

The Future of Your Business | Anschuetz on Leadership

04 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:You must preserve the core of your business: Leadership is about to make the investments, provide the autonomy, create the innovation c...

SADA: All in with Google Cloud

03 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:We went all in with Google Cloud: Most of our peers were actually going in the other direction. They wanted to be multicloud, making ac...

The High-Tech Industrial Revolution | Uphoff on Industry

29 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Will business travel come back? There is a lot of conjecture about business travel being forever changed by the forced online interacti...

Native Digitals, A New Category of Human | Lochhead on Different

28 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Returning to the office: This isn’t really what native digitals want. Apple employees revolted, as did Google’s, prompting one of t...

Innovate, Accelerate, and Grow: Seidor’s Value

27 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Offer customers the best in breed solutions: The pace that we see in the Middle East is a very hungry market for technology and knowled...

The CIO Agenda: What You Need to Know | Sadin on Digital

21 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Cloud repatriation: Techies and investors are buzzing about a recent articlethat seems to argue, “start in the cloud, then move back ...

The Customer’s Point of View | Courneya on Acceleration

20 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:The creativity that each one of them had: Telling their own story – and a lot of them used real-life stories and data, and so much mo...

Silk: The Database Supercharger

15 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:That’s what Silk helps with: We’re helping customers take those applications, and more importantly the databases underneath them –...

The Hunt for Quota-Crushers | Fitzgerald on Talent

13 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:They want a player that’s crushing their quota year-after-year: Everybody’s going after that person. To get a search agency that’...

Channel Partners in the Time of Cloud | Tinder on Customers

06 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Microsoft has said that for every $1 of software they sell, partners make $9: The opportunity for channel partners in this time of clou...

Industry-Cloud Explosion: Ammirati on Innovation

30 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Taking a victory lap: When you look at those lists, these are technology companies that have figured out how to partner and work within...

Industry Clouds “Fantastic Opportunity!” – Oliver Bussmann

28 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Oliver Bussmann is a world-renowned expert specializing on the intersection of technology and business with particular expertise in financial services...

Is Big Data Overhyped? Uphoff on Industry

23 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Why isn’t big data producing big insights? In our last episode we tee’d up the idea that while we have seen extraordinary advances ...

CEO Cybersecurity To-Do List: Sadin on Digital

21 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Wake-up call for boards and C-Suites: What do we hear from victims? “We didn’t think we’d be a target.”In our emerging accelera...

Snowflake and Data Cloud Phenomenon: Foley on Data

17 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Fundamental and important to the model: Data lakes, data hubs, data warehouses, data marketplaces – that’s a lot of data.Snowflake ...

Next Gen HCM: Lohit Sarma, Lifion VP

16 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Where these two circles intersect: You could offer a core set of applications, and the ability for you to pick and choose some of these...

The Unicorn Explosion: Ammirati on Innovation

15 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Plotted on a bell curve: Some are amazing, and some are terrible – and some are in the middle.Stability is not the issue: There’s c...

Making Good Decisions? Tinder on Customers

10 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Abe Lincoln: Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four hours sharpening the ax.No analysis paralysis: As y...

IBM + SAP:  Experience = Speed | Howard Boville, SVP of IBM Hybrid Cloud

09 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Just over a year ago, Howard Boville left his job as CTO at Bank of America to join IBM as senior VP of hybrid cloud. Boville joined Cloud Wars Live t...

Citizen-Developer Boom: Courneya on Acceleration

08 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:The citizen developer: Those low-code, no-code tools are giving the power back to their employees, and that’s creating a new environm...

99 Problems and Tech Ain’t One: Anschuetz on Leadership

03 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:I’ve got 99 problems and tech ain’t one of them: It’s almost never a technology issue. It’s usually a people problem.The techno...

The Death of “Work-Life Balance” | Lochhead on Different

26 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Declare dominion over your work: Agency is working for something greater than a paycheck. When you love what you do, you have nothing t...

Reshoring = $500B Boom for Mfg. Tech | Uphoff on Industry

25 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:According to the Association for Manufacturing Technology: In order to reshore 25% of the manufactured goods currently imported from Ch...

Wealth of Riches: IBM Cloud CTO Hillery Hunter

24 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:A wealth of riches that we are so privileged to have: They serve as a kind of innovation pipeline in addition to our R&D teams.The defa...

OT Hacks Can Be Deadly: Sadin on Digital

19 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:The Colonial Pipleline hack: Wake-up call for boards and C-Suites. I’ve worked in utilities industry several times, and a hack in yo...

Databases in Outer Space: Foley on Data

18 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:A lot of exciting things happening: Gartner is estimating that 75% of databases will be migrated to the cloud or be launched in the clo...

Leadership Lessons: Purpose & Culture | Anschuetz on Leadership

17 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:·      I’m in the midst of writing a book: Everybody does it, but what’s exciting are the insights I’ll get to share from s...

Talent Wars: Control Your Destiny | Fitzgerald on Talent

11 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Old-school/new school: The big search firms have some really good assessment programs, but tie a formalized assessment program into suc...

IBM SVP Howard Boville: Unleashing the Cloud

10 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Servicing large enterprises for 100 years: So it’s just a natural motion to actually have this form factor there.Reimagining what you...

Is Digital Crushing Face-to-Face Experiences? | Tinder on Customers

05 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Digital transformation is off the charts: But is the customer experience any better as a result of all this digital transformation?Poll...

ServiceNow Industries: “Orchestrating the Work”

04 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:It’s all about orchestrating the work: If you really step back and start with our customer’s customer, you need to do different thi...

Google Cloud Industry Head Lori Mitchell-Keller

03 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:We’ve been having multi-cloud and hybrid cloud for quite some time: Without a lot of churn or having to rip out some core solutions t...

‘Verticalizing the Cloud’: Microsoft Exec Alysa Taylor

29 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Extremely unique in the industry: It’s not just about verticalizing one aspect of the cloud service – it’s bringing verticalizati...

Thriving on Hypergrowth: Vari CIO Jeff Dinard

28 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Heading back to the office: The pendulum is swinging back in the other direction, and B2B or B2C becoming artificial boundaries.That’...

Perfect Match: Cloud + Manufacturing | Uphoff on Industry

26 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Turnover in a post-pandemic world. It appears that we’re going to see a higher level of turnover in companies as we come out of the p...

Oracle: Huge Industry-Cloud Numbers | EVP Mike Sicilia

20 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Tens of thousands of people working in our vertical business: They have deep vertical knowledge and apply to some of our horizontal pro...

Database Migration: One Year or One Click? | Foley on Data

15 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:We launched the Cloud Database Report in February: Sign up now via the Cloud Wars website.Moving data to the cloud is more complicated ...

A Growth Plan for CXOs | Sadin on Digital

14 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Roaring 20’s redux: Fed Chair Jerome Powell said that the economy was at an inflection point: 6%-7% or more growth, and unemployment ...

Infor’s $1B Industry Clouds

08 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:$5 billion building and rewriting modern cloud apps: In the last few years we’ve really had all the ingredients, the products, the ma...

Crushing the Culture of Fear | Anschuetz on Leadership

06 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Pet peeves: Not every manager is a leader. When you need a leader but hire a manager, you quickly realize that you’ve either hired th...

Snowflake, Digital Ocean on Fire | Ammirati on Innovation

01 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:We’re getting back to normal – which is awesome: But the markets are crazy and the blank check companies – or SPAC as they’re o...

High-Tech Manufacturing Is White Hot | Uphoff on Industry

30 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Manufacturing is hot again: In this country there’s a Renaissance, I love it because I joined Thomas four years ago with the idea it ...

Salesforce’s Jujhar Singh: Industry Clouds Booming!

25 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:The appetite for industry solutions is expanding in a very big way: Speaking the language of our customers is key.AI becomes much riche...

SAP, Oracle, Workday: Who’s #1? | Tinder on Customers

23 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Results based upon ~400 vetted project reviews: Completed by customers involved with the implementation of SAP, Oracle, and Workday wit...

“Different” Making Competition Obsolete | Lochhead of Different

16 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:The business case for becoming a category creator in 2021: The “be different” category designers captured 51% of the revenue growth...

CIOs Have Tiger by the Tail | Sadin on Digital

15 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:The economy is opening up: Are you ready? Businesses are developing new ways to delight customers and the federal government is about p...

Aviatrix CEO: Cloud Network Platform Will Soar Like Snowflake

10 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:We immediately solved all their networking and network security issues: Now we are enabling them to actually deploy – and now they’...

The Disruptive CHRO Is Here | Fitzgerald on Talent

08 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Blending old and new communication channels: It’s that personal connection that we’re really pushing with many of our clients, and ...

The Path to Extinction | Anschuetz on Leadership

04 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Digital question marks left and right: It’s the old BCG (Boston Consulting Group) matrix. Figuring out how to regenerate and develop ...

Digital: The Revenue Maximizer | Ammirati on Innovation

02 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:No more looking in the rearview mirror: We’re talking about what we can do looking out at the front of the car, and how we can steer ...

Exec Communication: Best Friend, Worst Enemy? | Tinder on Customers

25 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Keep it simple: Your projects are complex but you must be able to distill your progress into an executive summary that can be absorbed ...

Cloud Database Wars: Attack of the Yottabytes!! | Foley on Data

24 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Traditional on-premises databases to cloud databases: Gartner predicts that 75% of all databases will be deployed or migrated to the cl...

The Auto Industry of Tomorrow Is Here | Uphoff on Industry

23 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:What does Remote 2.0 look like? As the world starts to open up what will office work look like? Many companies are announcing that they...

The CIO Reality Check | Sadin on Digital

15 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Technical debt: If you write off $0.42 during a $100M bank reconciliation, I guess you created ‘financial debt,’ but so what? It’...

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos: Force of Nature | Ammirati on Innovation

10 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Andy Jassy is now the CEO of Amazon: The force of nature that is Jeff Bezos is going to be executive chairman.Databricks and Snowflake ...

Oracle Cloud EVP Clay Magouyrk: A 1:1 Chat

09 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Living up to the hype: Whether you’re talking about cloud applications, or cloud infrastructure, it’s a huge accelerator.Put it in ...

BMC: Bullish on the Digital Future

03 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:The Autonomous Digital Enterprise (ADE): A roadmap for companies putting a lot of focus on providing solutions for customers, and to he...

Know Your Why—Or Prepare to Fail | Tinder on Customers

01 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Know your why. Don’t do projects with unclear outcomes or that do not solve a defined business issue/goal. Digital transformation onl...

The New Corporate/Virtual Culture | Uphoff on Industry

28 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Not so Unified Communications. As many/most companies have shifted to some version of remote work, we’re seeing both the benefits but...

Is Authentic, Honest Dialogue Still Possible? | Lochhead on Different

27 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Authentic dialogue is dying in America: Stanford Research shows us that people are caring more about themselves and less for others.Goo...

Fabulous Business Opportunities in 2021 | Sadin on Digital

21 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Last mile networking – down to last few feet: Data to/from the edge will skyrocket in quantity and in value.IT risk-awareness rises: ...

Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud

19 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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Heroes Now Will Reap Returns Next Year | Tinder on Customers

18 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Shift in size, scope, and delivery: The pandemic has caused a shift from mega projects to more incremental work. Many large projects we...

Scott Guthrie, EVP of the Microsoft Cloud and AI Group

14 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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Aneel Bhusri, Co-CEO of Workday

13 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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Bill McDermott, CEO of ServiceNow

12 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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Are You Funding #1 Competitor: Amazon? | Ammirati on Innovation

11 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes: Wall Street/Main Street: The software sector had a great year. The markets didn’t correct. Main Street not so much – stores are bo...

The Process Revolution: Reimagining AI-Powered Business | Uphoff on Industry

06 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Process geeks rejoice! Reimagining business process is the next frontier: New technologies; especially in AI and Machine Learning are e...

Fender’s Fabulous Reimagination | Lochhead on Different

22 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:The end of Silicon Valley: Elon Musk and Larry Ellison of Oracle are pulling up their tents and going to Texas.Eric Yuan, founder and C...

Rise of the Digitally Strategic CIO | Sadin on Digital

21 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Strategic planning: Strategic planning is a lot about what you want to do – but also about what you’re able to do.True cloud-native...

Wooly Mammoths with 2 Legs in Tar Pit | Anschuetz on Leadership

16 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:General contractor and owner: Eternal truth: it all comes down to motivating people – from high-tech to one of the most basic human a...

Apple Jumping into Cloud Business? | Ammirati on Innovation

14 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Apple and a thousand Intel employees: The M1 chipset Apple wanted was a billion-dollar investment in 5G, which they did in 2019. Will A...

Honeywell Creates Enterprise Cloud for Industry

09 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We spoke with David Trice, Honeywell Forge Chief Product Officer and General Manager Connected Buildings, in a Cloud Wars Live Perspectives. Here is o...

How to Win the War for Talent | Fitzgerald on Talent

07 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Mix of old school and new school: Know that there are different types of recruiters, just like there are different types of CXO executi...

Is Your Dream Team Actually a Nightmare? | Tinder on Customers

01 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:A project leader: Who has enough political capital to see the effort through to the end – and people who are culturally aligned with ...

Digital Transformation Shattering Talent Silos | Uphoff on Industry

24 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Seeing a shift from hyper-specialization: What are the implications for recruiting, retaining, and developing talent in today’s marke...

CRM Guru Paul Greenberg: Purpose of Delight

23 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:A sprint to the finish line: Digital transformation doesn’t just mean changes in our business models. We’re seeing a fundamental ch...

Hey Amazon: Time to Spin Out AWS, Okay?? | Ammirati on Innovation

18 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:ServiceNow vs. IBM: The market cap of ServiceNow, with $4 billion in revenue, is closing in on that of IBM, which is a 115-year-old com...

Today’s Heroes: Veterans, Healthcare Pros, IT Pros | Lochhead on Different

16 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:His grandfather Jack and father-in-law Phil: Jack served in World War II, and Phil in Korea. Both served and fought—and lost too many...

Life with Avatars, Bots, Virtual Agents: You Ready? | Araujo on Transformation

11 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:The power of trust: We’re trying to create a better experience – for our customers, our partners, and our employees. But navigatin...

HVR: Real-Time Data Where You Need It

05 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is brought to you by HVR.For this sponsored episode of Cloud Wars Live, I spoke with Anthony Brooks-Williams, CEO of HVR. As a cloud prov...

Talent War: Don’t Let Bots Call the Shots! | Fitzgerald on Talent

02 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Cool technology, but: You don’t want AI bots running your show. Many companies are defaulting too quickly to technology. “Old-fashi...

Leadership in Times of Crisis | Uphoff on Industry

28 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes: • Metrics that matter: As the ability to track most anything as “data” accelerates, there’s a lag between technology’s abili...

Good, Fast, or Cheap – You Can Pick Only Two | Tinder on Customers

26 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes: • Good, fast, or cheap – you can only pick two: Don’t shortchange your project results by not investing enough in user training ...

Don’t Let Technical Debt Swamp Your Recovery!! | Sadin on Digital

19 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes: • Microsoft told 160,000 employees: You have the permanent right to work from home. All the big tech companies are starting to adapt...

Will Oracle or Salesforce Buy Slack? | Ammirati on Innovation

05 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:• The power of the network effect: Will it trigger next wave of M&A for software companies?• A crisis is a terrible thing to ...

Digital Transformation: Embrace the Disruption! | Tinder on Customers

28 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes: • Home projects vs. digital transformation projects: There are going to be challenges along the way—here’s how to keep calm and ...

The Gift of Speed | Uphoff on Industry

21 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes: • Cheaper, faster, better: Technology is making all of our companies much more agile. And that’s what’s allowing all our compani...

Speed, Flexibility, Helicopter-Installed Mainframes | Sadin on Digital

15 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes: • The new, new normal – and the new abnormal. How many meetings have we had where somebody had a cat sitting on their head? • CI...

Crazy: Oracle Woos TikTok, Harvard’s Big Gap | Ammirati on Innovation

01 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes: • Six months ago, would anyone on the planet believe that 20% of incoming Harvard freshmen would defer? Great example of the crazy t...

How to Win CFO Support for Digital Transformation | Tinder on Customers

26 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes: • Bob poses the challenge: “My CFO is a real hard ass, and I think he or she is gonna really put me through the ringer. How do I t...

The Robots Are Coming—For Us? | Araujo on Transformation

24 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes: • Taken as directed, you should see a change in your digital transformation in a few weeks – as long as you read the message on th...