Tech Giants Adapt to ‘Cloud First’ World
June 3, 2014
Grazed from PCMag. Author: Michael J. Miller.
Cloud Computing took center stage at last week’s Code Conference as the heads of many such companies talked about how their products were evolving in a cloud-first world. In particular, the heads of Salesforce, Workday, Dropbox, Uber, Twitter, and Wal-Mart talked about how their businesses are changing in a world increasingly driven by cloud services.
One of the most interesting sessions involved Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Workday CEO Aneel Bhusri, who discussed the shift to cloud computing. Bhusri talked about how big shifts in computing only happen every 10 to 15 years, with the previous move being the change from mainframes to client-server computing. We are now three to four years into a 15-year cycle during which everyone will eventually move to the cloud, he said…
Benioff said that in many case, the traditional business process is getting inverted and becoming a customer-first process. But he said, customers still need to automate their service, sales, financial, HR, and other functions. The big challenge facing cloud companies is distribution, in that they face much larger competitors in the traditional enterprise software vendors that have much larger sales staffs. But, he said, those companies haven’t taken the multi-tenant approach to software like cloud companies…
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