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Self-serve “Services” is EMC’s Ultimate Goal through Virtualization | #sapphirenow

Bill Reid, Senior Director – Platform Strategy & Engineering with EMC, spoke with John Furrier and David Floyer on theCUBE at SapphireNOW 2013, about virtualization, business motivation, business value, and EMC’s journey. Asked about the method used by EMC to consolidate and virtualize SAP within the organization, Bill Reid spoke about the “journey” that took ...

Knowledge13 Skips the Vendor Hype in Vegas, Empowers IT Professionals | #servicenow

With more than twenty years experience in worldwide marketing, product strategy and new business creation, Beth White, CMO of ServiceNow, joined theCube hosts in Las Vegas to talk about “unpacking the message”, the Knowledge13 event, and the ServiceNow community at large. At the time of the interview Beth was extremely happy with the feedback received ...

Taking Automation to the Next Level | #servicenow

Jim Pitts, Senior Product Manager of Cloud Automation at ServiceNow, happened to interviewed by theCube shortly after his company announced ServiceNow Cloud Provisioning, a new orchestration application that enables IT to automate the entire cloud management lifecycle. From self-service cloud selection to automated, standardized cloud creation and resource optimization, ServiceNow Cloud Provisioning speeds the deployment ...

Hackathon Winners Put the Power of Kickstarter into the Workplace | #servicenow

On the last day of ServiceNow’s annual Knowledge 13 event, it was time to meet the winners of the Hackathon contest. Jeff Frick’s guests on theCube were Hackathon winners Robert Fedoruk and Adam Mason, who talked a bit about their inspiration and success story. It was somewhat expected that in the age of social web, ...

Hand-holding Customers Is Not an Option for IT | #sapphirenow

Satya Krishnaswamy, Founder & CEO NextPrinciples and a self proclaimed “closet geek”, spoke with John Furrier and David Floyer on Day 2 of SapphireNOW 2013 about understanding data, and solutions which help users to do just that. It is well-known that real time information is really critical for businesses, and understanding the data, and what ...

Putting the “Relationship” Back in CRM | #sapphirenow

Sameer Patel, one of the key thought leaders in the collaboration space, joined John Furrier on theCUBE to discuss the ways of putting the *Relationship* back in Customer Relationship Management at SAP’s annual Sapphire Now event. As one who understood from the get-go the convergence between collaboration and Social CRM, Patel strongly believes that Social ...

How SAP Cut Datacenter Costs : Reduce Oracle Licenses, Virtualize via VMware | #sapphirenow

Hsinte James Yen, SAP Basis Manager, visited theCube on Day 1 of SapphireNOW 2013 and discussed with hosts Dave Floyer and John Furrier about the general workflow, the strive to go green, and the company’s efforts at reducing costs. For SAP, one step to cut down the costs was the reduction of licences from from ...

CIOs Should Embrace New Trends, even Shadow IT | #servicenow

Marina Levinson, Founder and CEO of CIO Advisory Group, has more than 25 years of leadership experience managing all aspects of IT and business process transformation, with 12+ years as a global CIO of fast-growing, high-tech companies. She agreed to talk to Jeff Frick and Dave Vellante as part of the ServiceNow Knowledge 13 event ...

Built-In Simplicity Brings App Creation to Broader User Set in the Enterprise | #servicenow

Matt Schwimmer, VP of Product Management, ServiceNow, accepted the invitation of theCube hosts Dave Vellante and Jeff Frick to talk in depth about his company’s latest product offering called the AppCreator. Because Schwimmer kept stressing it was increasingly easier for customers to build unique applications with this new tool using the ServiceNow platform, Vellante wanted ...

Analytics + BI Can Eliminate the Hassle of Buying in a Global Supply Chain | #sapphirenow

The SAPPHIRE NOW Annual Conference 2013, held in Orlando, FL, brought together key people from the world of business and IT, in the largest SAP customer-run conference. Speaking about the future of e-commerce and the technologies that are changing the face of business, Chris Haydon, VP Solutions Management – Procurement, Finance & Network with ARIBA, ...