Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans

SAP's Game-Changing RISE Program is a Journey, Not a Destination | SAP Cloud President Brian Duffy

22 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Innovation inspired by disruption: From early 2020 today, the world looks completely different. Boards of directors and other leaders a...

Mission Not-Impossible: Supply Chains & Sustainability Strategies | Sadin on Digital

15 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Retail supply chains and OODA loops: Fighter pilots are trained to Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act when engaged in fast-moving environ...

Driving Supply Chain Mastery | Thomas Saueressig on Business Transformation

10 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Differentiate in the market: Reflect on business operations. Make decisive moves and decisions, and act in an agile fashion for the fut...

Yext & Redis Help Companies Wrangle Public Data Across Multiple Clouds, Third-Party Sites & Owned Experiences

08 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:The Yext promise: Josh describes the platform as a place for "ingesting data, structuring it, and then delivering it as in the form of ...

A Swinging Pendulum of Digital Ad Fraud | Uphoff on Industry

01 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:The stats, yet with so little scrutiny: Machine, also referred to as bot-related ad revenue, was $81 billion in 2022 with projections t...

Beyond Recession: Be Ready for the Next Upcycle | Sadin on Digital

25 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Three tips for the precarious present: As the coronavirus continues to evolve and spread, Wayne says that business leaders need to be r...

Three Honest Stories of Failure & Lessons Learned | Anschuetz on Leadership

24 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Balancing conflicting responsibilities: Christian's first story takes place during an operation by the Marine Corps when he was a young...

Infosys Builds "ERP as a Service" Alongside RISE with SAP | SAP Cloud & Digital Leader Ramesh J. Chougule

24 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:ERP as a Service: In the past, business transformations and ERP transformations took years to complete. Today, customers need to get up...

Beware of Vanity Metrics, Which Feel Good But Deliver Little | Tinder on Customers

11 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:The trap of vanity metrics: certain statistics you hear all the time, like "we have 96% customer satisfaction," are not telling the ful...

DoiT, Google Cloud's Global Reseller Partner of the Year, on Agility, Trust & Growth | ISV Program Manager Thomas Bush

10 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Massive changes to cloud marketplaces: Amazon and Google Cloud are transforming the ways that companies buy software through their clou...

Where Recruiting Meets L&D Training, Magic Happens | Fitzgerald on Talent

05 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:The "cradle to grave" approach: Pat and Pam worked together for many years to develop creative, advanced programs for talent acquisitio...

The Netflix Stumble is a Fable About Customer Centricity | Uphoff on Industry

03 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Netflix's disruptive start: Tony had an "inside baseball view" of the early disruptions Netflix made to the entertainment industry in t...

Change Agility, the Secret Key to Digital Transformation Success | Tinder on Customers | Cloud Wars Live

06 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 20The Big Themes:Change management and change agility are often overlooked: Raven Intelligence research shows that customers' most frequent...

Propel's New PLM Promise: Right Product, Right Market, Right Time | CEO & Co-Founder Ray Hein

05 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:How silos impede product innovation: Ray describes "a chasm" that has traditionally existed between product teams and their counterpart...

The Data Revolution: How Redis Helped Ulta Beauty Dazzle Customers During Lockdown

31 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:How Ulta grew 40% amid Covid-19 disruptions: Omar talks about the company's innovation department and the remarkable 4-week turnaround ...

The Real ROI of Technology in 2022 and Beyond | Uphoff on Industry

30 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:An update on the sale of Thomas to Xometry: Tony describes how the two companies are fitting together and creating a new kind of on-de...

Seizing Opportunities at the Edge with HPE | Global Field CTO Matt Maccaux

29 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Data-first modernization: the return of the Chief Data Officer in many organizations goes hand-in-hand with an increasing effort to str...

HPE Helps Companies Modernize Without Compromise | Strategy VP Robert Christiansen

24 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Modernizing without compromise: every customer is going to have vastly different needs and different use cases, but HPE is adamant abou...

President Zelensky and the Sacrifices of Leadership | Anschuetz on Leadership | Cloud Wars Live

23 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:• President Zelensky of Ukraine's heroic example: Leaders are force multipliers for the people that they lead, and to do that, they h...

Digital All-Stars Series: Wayne Sadin

17 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Watch "Sadin on Digital," a monthly series that explores the fast-changing and high-stakes world of digital business and what approaches CEOs and boar...

Modern Finance Leaders Must Be Proactive, Not Reactive | Cloud Wars Live [Sponsored by Workday]

08 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Embracing opportunities created through change: The pandemic obviously disrupted how Sarah and her team collaborated with each other an...

From Planning to Acceleration to Transformation | Cloud Wars Live [Sponsored by Workday]

24 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Acceleration as key to digital transformation: Ajay says acceleration is about getting rid of constraints, hurdles, and manual processe...

Oracle Transformed with the Cloud—It Can Help You Do the Same | EVP Doug Kehring | Cloud Wars Live

23 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:• Oracle runs its end-to-end business on Oracle Cloud, which Doug says enables them to deliver improved experiences to customers and ...

A Pivotal Moment for Higher Education & Technology | Cloud Wars Live

09 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:The lessons of the pandemic response - Stacy says she and her colleagues discovered that WSU as an institution could be much more nimbl...

It's Time to Fall into the Web3 Rabbit Hole | Lochhead on Different

02 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:• The Web3 breakthrough: basically anything that is built on the blockchain is considered Web3, and Chris believes that it represents...

Toby Culshaw, Talent Intelligence Leader for Amazon | Fitzgerald on Talent

31 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:• What is talent intelligence? The application of data relating to people, skills, jobs, functions, competitors, geographies, to driv...

Data-Driven Decision-Making in the Time of Covid with WestMed CFO Anthony Colletta

28 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:CFOs looking beyond financial data - interconnected parts of the business like HR are equally important to understanding performanceDat...

Predictions for 2022 in Cloud, Data, and More | Foley on Data

27 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:• Three tenets of data: (1) data volumes keep growing in size and complexity, (2) business leaders are always looking for new ways to...

Thomas Acquired by Xometry | Uphoff on Industry

15 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:• The power of relationships: The deal between Thomas and Xometry probably wouldn’t have happened without a trusting relationshi...

Force Multipliers in the Digital Economy | Sadin on Digital

14 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:• Vendors did a great job: But played to type.• Work From Home/Work From Anywhere culture: Omicron delaying return to the off...

Job Flux Triggering Project Chaos | Tinder on Customers

08 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:• Good scope = good outcome. And the opposite is almost always true!• Massive personnel turnover. Services firms and their cl...

Creating a World-Class Culture | Anschuetz on Leadership

07 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:• Well-represented by this flag: We hope other countries have organizations that feel that way about their flags.• Someone's ...

Workday New CFO Barbara Larson: Data-Driven Business

01 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:• The ability to tailor applications: A top CFO concern is tax management, and must be addressed on an end-to-end basis.• The...

SADA and Google Cloud: Inside the Magic

30 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:• It’s important to pick the right horse: In terms of transformation, in terms of collaboration, communication culture, in terms...

Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian Unplugged

29 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:• Every industry has gone through some profound changes: But when you shift online, there are significant challenges in understand...

Flatten Like Roadkill? Just Say No! | Sadin on Digital

23 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:• Now you can put your own paint on it: That's going to be a terrific thing for the clients, the buyers into next year and the yea...

IBM Industry-Cloud Blitz

22 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:• Hyper focused on the four markets in regulated industries: Healthcare, telecommunications, financial services and government.•...

Nutanix Cloud: Simpler, Faster, Better

17 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:Public cloud operating model: Maybe there was more governance requirements, more security. We are seeing now customers becoming more th...

20,000 Mainframes Headed for Cloud?

16 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:• The Baby Boomers are retiring: Further accelerating the need to deal with mainframes.• FinTech as an example: Old brick and...

Whipping the Great Resignation | Tinder on Customers

09 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:• The great resignation is effecting projects: What are some of the key findings or trends about these transformations? What was d...

Facebook’s Disgrace: Isolated Case | Ammirati on Innovation

04 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:• Facebook is evil: It’s a lot like going to work for Philip Morris 30 years ago. We should continue to invest in solving the wo...

The Data Revolution Is Here! | Foley on Data

28 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:• We just launched a new channel: Reflecting this global business phenomenon, it’s called the data revolution—and it’s turni...

Supply Chains Need Human Brains | Uphoff on Industry

26 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:• The real story behind the supply chain: There are not enough skilled workers in manufacturing, logistics, distribution, and truc...

The CIO Agenda for Digital Success | Sadin on Digital

21 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:• The solution is a production database: So there’s a big period of time when I have two different data sources. And you run the...

Why Loyalty Is Badly Misunderstood | Anschuetz on Leadership

19 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:• We're not loyal to each other: I think you've got to breathe almost our hearts back into our organizations.• Competitors ar...

The Acceleration Economy Analyst Network | Courneya on Acceleration

14 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:• “Scaling Up” – by Verne Harnish: The four Ds: drivers, demands, discipline, and decisions.• Growth doesn’t always equal ...

Digital Twins, Data Pipelines and the Future | Ammirati on Innovation

12 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:• Your data pipeline is key: A strong data pipeline with a decent model is better than an awesome model with a weak data pipeline•...

Universities Have Failed Miserably | Fitzgerald on Talent

11 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:• Young kids don’t have any money: After spending a hundred thousand dollars on a four year education I’d like to see the univ...

Oracle Hospitality: Tech Drives Resurgence | SVP & General Manager Alexander Alt [Sponsored]

07 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:• Operating solutions to hotels, casinos, and cruise ships: It’s been a brutal 18 months for hospitality – the industry did a ver...

Turn Software Projects into Value Accelerators | Tinder on Customers

05 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:• Setting clear project goals and timelines: This will help you measure your progress. Without clear goals and success metrics, it...

Transforming Data into Powerful Outcomes: Pure Storage

04 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:• They're looking to modernize everything they do: And whether that's the infrastructure, whether that's how they operate the infrast...

Oh My: Supply Chains Have Become Sexy! | Uphoff on Industry

30 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:• You may be hearing about it: The Buy American Act, The Infrastructure Bill, The United States Innovation, and Competition Act.•...

Google Cloud’s Rob Enslin: Touching Billions of People

28 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:• Every industry: Think about how each one of them accelerated or propelled what they would have taken years to get to in a very, ...

What CIOs Should Say to Boards of Directors | Sadin on Digital

27 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:• IBM support is a differentiator: Upstart cloud vendors are in an IaaS arms race. Legacy enterprise IT clients have been with IBM...

The Fog of War: Data and Leadership | Anschuetz on Leadership

23 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Themes:• This thing called fog of war: And the fog of war is you don't know everything. And then as soon as the bullets start flying, you...

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 ...