Per Karlberg

bits and pieces

Early adopter inom företagsIT

Ofta när jag läser IDG i allmänhet och tidningen CIO i synnerhet slås jag av hur olika min syn och deras syn är på vad som händer nu och vad som kommer vara häftigt inom några år. Övertygad om att det måste vara något som de vet, men som jag inte fattat ännu, som är skälet tänker jag att det kanske är bäst att hålla sig borta från den världen om det är häftiga saker man vill syssla med.

Den här intervjun med Todd Pierce från Genetech ger mig hopp om att även "enterprise IT" kan vara fyllt av häftiga saker.

How to Succeed as an Early Adopter: Interview with Genentech CIO Todd Pierce
lundbergmedia.com

En predikan för nya saker; cloud computing, iPhone och nytt sätt att se på mjukvara:

"I haven’t read the Microsoft Licensing Agreement lately, [...] you’d have to be in like a two and a-half hour meeting to get briefed on what you’re buying. Two and a-half hours. And I have a PhD. [...] Google, $50. And it’s the same $50 from 61 features ago. Sixty-one new products, YouTube for the enterprise, video conferencing. Now, what software company, Microsoft, SAP, or Oracle, would give you 61 new things with no deployment, and no price increase? Introduce me to that software company. They don’t exist."

"All my money, which I care a lot more about than my e-mail at work, I do it all online. [...] So, if I pay all my bills, do all of my transactions on the internet, why can’t I approve an SAP shopping cart on the internet?"

"We spent 30 years figuring out how to get 200 drop-down menus with 3,000 features [SAP]. And a whole industry of training and manuals. And now we’re delivering single-function apps that require no training. And they’re absolutely fantastic. I hooked SAP up to my iPhone for shopping cart approvals; 30 percent of all of our approvals are now done on iPhones into SAP because I stripped away all of that complexity that’s in the SAP mySRM. I spent $10 million making my purchasing system usable on SAP. I spent $10,000 making it usable on my iPhone. You do the math. And, which would you rather do? Would you rather approve the shopping cart on your iPhone? Or would you rather log in, literally, you can answer three e-mails by the time it loads all the tabs and screens and all the pieces, and then try to remember behind which of these mystery tabs is my answer. It’s like playing a game of Jeopardy every time. Is this it? Is this it? Is this where I go? Oh, look, thank God I found it. It’s like a treasure map. And that’s just so you can buy something. I mean, come on.

There are many things happening here that are good for users, good for the IT profession, good for business. It’s just good, good, good. You know, what’s slowing this adoption are all the priests of the past – all the preservationists. All the interests that are built up around the edifice that is enterprise software…. Cloud computing is a dream come true."

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