June’s live Cloud Wars Expo event featured dozens of industry leaders allowing the Acceleration Economy team access to the inner workings of the greatest growth market the world has ever known.
If you missed the Expo or just want to catch up on sessions you were not able to attend, then you’re in luck. We recorded more than 40 hours of education sessions from the event, which are available for free to Acceleration Economy subscribers. We’re also previewing the content in this series of Moments, which feature highlights from each session.
In this Cloud Wars Expo moment, taken from the Cloud ERP discussion, Indy Bains, Vice President of Industry and Solution Marketing at Workday, and Eric Washer, Vice President of Industry and CFO Product Strategy at Workday, speak about how modern ERPs should be in interoperable in order to maximize data, promote business growth, and support talent retention.
Highlights
00:30 — Bains says it is mind-blowing that so many of today’s organizations are still stuck in a paradigm of user experience, which deters organizations from attracting and retaining the best talent.
01:21 — The team at Workday has an opinion on how a cloud ERP can deliver an optimal user experience in a way that other technology platforms cannot. Washer explains how this belief is focused on three key tenants:
- Open and adaptable architecture
- Intelligent automation
- Intelligent data core
02:05 — Washer says the most important factor in modern ERP is the ability to “interoperate across the entire ecosystem.” A modern ERP must be able to work within an entire industry to bring in data that can be classified into a taxonomy that leads to business acceleration.
02:58 — Being interoperable is about more than integrating master data. Cloud ERP systems must be able to bring in key data, classify that data, and merge it with traditional back-office data to create a rich pool of information.
