Are you prepared for the cloud - Dennis Howlett
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Are You Prepared for the Cloud?
‣ 16th September, 2011
Dennis Howlett
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yesterday...
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today...
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My mission...today
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Your mission
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...which means...
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Sceptics say....
Finance - boo !!
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Hit ‘em with this
Finance - yay !!
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Why go to the cloud for accounting?‣ Improve the billing process - 50%
‣ Fast track implementation for new venture - 20%
‣ Requirement to reduce IT investments (capex) - 18%
‣ Required systems refresh with limited IT resource - 18%
do more with less and do it better (business people)
results from survey data among those who have invested
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Is that it?
do something you can’t do today
“The company is quite literally a business that would not be possible on its current scale without the cloud. This is what business transformation is really about — not incremental improvements in performance, but being able to do things that simply were not possible before the cloud existed.”Phil Wainewright talking about m62 visualcommunications
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The practitioner’s perspective
92% said that they felt SaaS solutions were very secure
AccMan survey, 8th June 2011
If it’s good enough for them why not us?
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And point out the stupidity of the argument
Ranked no.1 in category for most admired companies - Forbes 2011
Online filing is now mandatory (jokes aside about effectiveness)
If it’s good enough for them why not us?
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Why the cloud makes a difference
‣ Forces agility
‣ Dissolves time, space and geography
‣ Provides opportunities to re-invent without disruption
‣ Makes competitive comparison easier
‣ Offers the potential for work to become fun - seriously
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On-prem v cloud differences
a different way of thinking
On-prem Cloud
Avoid change Embrace change
Lagging innovation Leading innovation
IT project Functional review only
Long upgrade cycle Short/no upgrade cycle
Lack of commonality Lots of commonality
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Organisational benefits
“apps not only share the same language but can share the same culture”
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What about the social aspect?
Updating a project total
Creating an opportunity
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Large deals notification
Dashboard data
What about the social aspect?
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Even SAP is doing it !
Social data
CRM/financial data
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Practitioner challenges
‣ Entitlement economy
‣ It isn’t Sage
‣ Fear of change
‣ Need for stability
‣ Failure to invest
‣ Lack of integrated tools
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My response
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Dennis Howlett
Thank You !!
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Dennis Howlett
Contact
‣ email: [email protected]
‣ Twitter: http://twitter.com/dahowlett
‣ Skype/Facebook/LinkedIn: dahowlett
‣ tel: +34 607 482 739