Sonian and Big Data

admin — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:04:50 +0000

How would you define "big data"? To Sonian, "big data" is a cloud-powered data repository designed to manage. But it took a long time to get to this point - "big data" has taken a significant journey over the past few years. We've seen it morph into various themes; a big career opportunity for data scientists; the system of record; how the cloud can be used to effectively solve the data problem; and many others. Regardless of the form "big data" takes, it seems as though there are endless possibilities to success.

Speaker First Name:

Greg

Speaker Last Name:

Arnette

Speaker Job Title:

CTO & Founder

Speaker's Company Name/Affiliation:

Sonian

Speaker Bio:

Greg Arnette has more than 15 years of experience in messaging, collaboration, Internet and networking, having created messaging products and services starting with AlertWare and most recently IntelliReach, which was acquired by Infocrossing in 2006. Since 2006, Greg has been developing Web-based information management solutions leveraging open source technology with virtualization infrastructure. As Sonian’s CTO, Greg is responsible for the company’s product vision, technical innovation and engineering leadership. Greg has most recently spoken at MassTechnology Leadership Council’s “Find the Right Way to the Cloud,” discussing the keys to building a cloud-powered platform that is successful. He has also presented at the Cloud Control Conference and Exhibit, Canaccord Growth Conference, and Lotusphere.

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@sonian

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New Challenges in Cloud Adoption - The Users!

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:20:35 +0000

In the early days of cloud computing, winning over the CIO to the idea that cloud providers were safe, reliable and better than other alternatives was the primary challenge. Now that CIOs are increasingly comfortable with the cloud, the focus is shifting to an even tougher audience: the end-users.

Cloud computing has made it so that IT systems can live (and evolve) faster and easier than ever before, but organizational change management and user adoption methodologies have not kept up. Quite simply, technology can move forward faster than the organizations in which it is introduced.

Cloud computing has made it faster, cheaper and easier for organizations to deploy systems, but it may have actually made it harder for the users to adopt them. And if people don’t use the system, it fails to deliver any value to the organization. If this happens, both the client and the cloud provider will suffer.

So why is it harder for end-users to adopt cloud solutions?
• Cloud solutions are often implemented faster than traditional system deployments, dramatically reducing the time available time deliver organizational change management initiatives

• Cloud deployments are often perceived as “easier” than traditional system deployments, and there is not always the perceived need (and budget) for organizational change efforts

• Many cloud providers introduce new enhancements and functionality on a regular basis, thereby transforming the users’ learning “curve” into a learning “treadmill”

• Change Management efforts are still focused on the initial go-live, but do little to sustain user adoption over the life of the system.

This presentation will examine some of the unique challenges of cloud computing from an end-user perspective. It will identify shortfalls of common change management efforts and provide alternatives for how to improve change management and user adoption efforts to better suit cloud systems.

Attendees will gain new insights into what it takes to have a successful cloud implementation and learn what they can do to immediately begin improving adoption of their cloud systems.

Keywords:

User Adoption

Organizational Change Management

ROI

IT success

Cloud Adoption

Speaker First Name:

Jason

Speaker Last Name:

Whitehead

Speaker Job Title:

CEO

Speaker's Company Name/Affiliation:

Tri Tuns, LLC

Speaker Bio:

Jason Whitehead is CEO of Tri Tuns, LLC, an IT & organizational effectiveness consultancy specializing in driving and sustaining effective user adoption of IT systems. He works at the intersection of technology, process, culture and people to help clients actually achieved measurable business benefits from their technology investments. What makes Jason unique is that he combines advanced technology implementation expertise with advanced knowledge of organization development and employee engagement techniques, which enables him to drive desired user behavior. Further, while many consultants focus primarily on managing the initial “change”, Jason is focused on helping clients through the initial change and on sustaining desired user behavior over the life of the system. Jason believes that the biggest challenge to IT success is not the technology; it is getting people to use it effectively. He has over 16 years experience working on major enterprise and collaborative system implementations for a variety of Fortune 500, government and mid-size clients across North America and Europe. He has worked as both a consultant to several global fortune 500 companies and an internal IT system manager for Texas Instruments, where he transformed a failed CRM implementation into a worldwide success that was designated an internal “best practice”. Jason holds a Masters of Science in Analysis, Design, and Management of Information Systems (ADMIS) from the London School of Economics, a Masters of Science in Organization Development & Strategic Human Resources from Johns Hopkins University, and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from George Washington University.

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http://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonwhitehead

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@Trituns

Speaker's Postal Address:

4601 S. 31 Road #A-1 Arlington, VA 22206

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Sonian and Big Data

New Challenges in Cloud Adoption - The Users!