“Wayne Sadin on Digital Strategy” episodes will explore the fast-changing and high-stakes world of digital business. We’ll focus on what CEOs and boards must do to lead their companies successfully into the Digital Age. Today, we talk about hyperscaling, digital transformation, and shifts in enterprise technology that are creating opportunities for differentiation.
Episode 6
In this episode: how the cloud is driving us to new features as we strive to get things—everything!—done faster. Wayne also shares some thoughts on how “hyperscaling” is really the domain of Google, Amazon, and Microsoft—and why everybody else is going to be a second-class citizen. Later, Wayne asks, why invest in a million servers and data centers around the world? Because you could just as easily hire 5,000 developers and build an application that will make your customers so happy, they’ll never think about leaving.
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Highlights
The SAPs, the Oracle, to some extent the Microsofts are starting to say, 'The way we did business before, when software came in a magnetic tape or a floppy disc, can change.' #CloudWars Click To Tweet If you sit on the board or you're a C-suite executive, and your IT folks are not talking to you about the difference between a legacy ERP, CRM product and what we can do with cloud-enabled technology, shame on them. #CloudWars Click To Tweet As we start replacing technical-debt-laden legacy code… we're creating a renaissance, an opportunity for companies to be faster, more nimble, cheaper and more modular even when buying a suite architecture. Click To Tweet
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