Infrastructure, Software, Applications for Modern CIOs | Sadin on Digital

Episode 45 | Infrastructure, Software, Applications


The Big Themes:


CIO "Lego blocks": CIOs in tech are looking for vendors to
provide the "building blocks" that are necessary to develop
applications. When CIOs approach the board, they are not looking
to describe servers and storage, but rather, systems, or
applications.

Vendors compete on the strength of their products: Wayne
praises Oracle for competing with the strength of its product(s).
The company is not looking to lock customers in. He says that, as
a customer, it makes him feel like [Oracle] has less to hide.

Choices are evolving for customers: Customers are now faced
with selecting a cloud provider whose cloud philosophy resonates
with the type of work they are trying to do. Wayne and Bob
explore various cloud vendors and their differentiated offerings.



 


The Big Quote: "We're willing to pay for differentiated vertical
software that solves our problem quicker. Companies don't mind
making an investment in a quality product. What we've had to do
up to now, as I say, "buy the Lego blocks and assemble our own
solution." There are people who think that's great. I don't think
manufacturing companies, supply chain companies, retail
companies, hospitals should be in the software business. I think
they should be in the business that's on the nameplate on the
door. And so as a CIO, I'm encouraging vendors to give me more
solutions that I can configure rather than customize, and that
either fit together with other products in their app store or
their infrastructure space, their partner space, or they just
work out of the box from the vendor. Because then I do less
integration and more solution. And that's what I think I want to
do as a 21st-century CIO."


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