Getting the strongest, fastest, best IT for your business is all about adding hot new software, services, and clouds, right? Well, until you have a glut of applications and processes slowing you down. Then, it’s time to slim down and start getting rid of stuff to improve performance and cut time consumption.

Dave Schecklman, SVP and CIO at Oshkosh Corp., said that one of the main benefits of using ServiceNow has been the ability to reduce bulk and redundancies. “We eliminated 36,000 workflows,” he told Dave Vellante (@dvellante) and Jeff Frick (@JeffFrick), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team.

Schecklman said, like many companies, his required cumbersome processes to do fairly simple things. “To get an iPad, you had to have six, seven, eight signatures,” he said. Now, when people ask for something, like a new software, “As long as it hits their budget, it’s the same price worldwide, and it’s preapproved, it gets installed as soon as you click go. It does the doublecheck, and its installed,” he said.

No rest for the wicked in cybersecurity

Schecklman spoke about the frustrations facing security teams these days. “It used to be a wonkish thing — just make sure you keep the teenage hackers out. Well, that’s not really the issue anymore,” he said.

He said that ransomware, intellectual property theft and exposure of private information are just some of the newer threats that have to be dealt with. In his eyes, it is analogous to physical warfare where you build better tanks and artillery and the enemy improves their own tactics in response.

Shifting trends have to be accepted as a constant. “So whatever I told you last time, forget about that,” he said. “The game is different this time.”

Watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of ServiceNow Knowledge16.

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