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The millennial effect: The new demand for instant gratification IT | #SAPPHIRENOW

Food for thought: Are cloud infrastructure and Software-as-a-Service making easy, all-in-one IT inevitable? Or are people raised in a culture of convenience pressuring IT developers for instant gratification?

Jason Wolf, GM of Global Technology Partners at SAP SE, said it’s a symbiotic relationship, but he sees customers’ shrinking attention spans as the greater driver.

Wolf calls it “the millennial effect.” He explained to John Furrier (@furrier) and Peter Burris (@plburris), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, “You’ve got customers now that are expecting end-solutions. … They’re not anymore about, ‘I’m going to buy a software from you, the boxes from you, the servers from you.’ They say, ‘Give me a solution.'”

In Wolf’s view, it’s really about peoples’ expectations — luckily, new technology and the cloud are able to meet them.

A partner ecosystem

Jim Ganthier, VP and GM of engineered solutions, HPC and cloud at Dell, Inc., who also joined in on the interview with theCUBE and Wolf, agreed with Wolf that partnerships are getting more in-depth due to the need for a lot of components to create end-solutions. Using data as an example, he said Dell wants to help customers “get to the point of how they can now look at all that data and drive not only actionable intelligence, but more importantly business results.”

Ganthier mentioned how Dell is enabling community-sourced solutions through a sharing and collaboration platform. He said community-generated solutions can eventually be disseminated to the masses. “We are creating a partner ecosystem,” he concluded.

Watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of SAP Sapphire 2016.

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