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: dahowlett@gmail.com

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‣ tel: +34 607 482 739