To Understand Just How Much The Cloud Will Change The World, Look At Toyota
November 11, 2012
Spend a few minutes talking to Zack Hicks, Toyota’s top technology executive in North America, and you’ll walk away with a startling revelation: Cloud computing is changing everything about our world from how we work to how we manage our health.
Hicks, the chief information officer for Toyota’s U.S. arm, says that the automaker’s adoption of cloud technology—Internet-based computing, served up through websites and apps—has freed up his staff to work on more meaningful projects. And those are really life-changing things, like apps that can monitor your vital signs…
Last month, Hicks freed up more of his team from desktop-support drudgery when Toyota signed a massive deal with Microsoft Office 365, its cloud alternative to Exchange email and Microsoft Office desktop software. The deal took more than two years, but in the end Toyota is ditching IBM’s Lotus Notes and putting its entire worldwide workforce of 200,000 employees on Office 365…
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