This preview from the Acceleration Economy Cloud Wars Top 10 Course features C-suite practitioner analysts replicating the dynamic of executives discussing, debating, and defining the vendor selection process in the context of our top 10 ranking of the largest and most customer-focused cloud providers.
This episode is sponsored by Acceleration Economy’s “Cloud Wars Top 10 Course,” which explains how Bob Evans builds and updates the Cloud Wars Top 10 ranking, as well as how C-suite executives use the list to inform strategic cloud purchase decisions. The course is available today.
This video highlights the practitioner analysts discussing how they use the rankings, which were recently revised, in their vendor evaluations.
Highlights
00:42 — Bob Evans explains that he develops and revises the Top 10 rankings from the perspective of business strategy and how these vendors are responding to the rapidly changing needs of customers.
00:56 — This includes how they’re adapting or moving in new and sometimes dramatically different directions that customers are going in.
01:13 — There were a number of changes in the ranking and those reflect the point that these customers aren’t looking for the same things from the cloud today that they were one or two years ago. They’re also going to be looking for different things a year or two from now. Nimbleness, and a slavish devotion to what customers need today, is vital.
Other segments of the Cloud Wars Top 10 course cover:
- The criteria used to select and rank the Top 10 companies
- Overview of each of the 10 companies and their key differentiators
- How companies are evaluated for placement on the Cloud Wars Horizon, and why Celonis is on that list
The executive buying committee for this course includes:
- Bob Evans
- CEO Tony Uphoff
- CFO Manny Korakis
- CIO/CTO/CDO Wayne Sadin
- Partnerships expert Janet Schijns
You can purchase the full course today for only $199. An unlimited user license is $2,499.
