The keynotes are coming to a close, and my connectivity problems have made my live blog a bit spotty, but there will be more to come! Check back later and tomorrow for blogs and more live coverage.
Marie is back on stage. Question -- can you accelerate the business of technology? 25% of IT projects are deployed over budget. 34% are deployed behind schedule.
Steve: We now have to make inward focus, focus on take shared services model to next level, focus on agile development. Clearly we're not experts in the Websphere space.
Steve: As I look at this overall seen two key things. We know this is a huge change for us. Really weren't ready for it. Had spent so long in old architecture. As we stepped forward we realized we can't step forward w/o our partners.
Steve: Websphere and zLinux gave best peformance and optimized cost, flexible SOA accelerates solution delivery, 13 applications ported and 20 more in-process, highly stable, resilient,a nd scalable environment for our business.
Steve: As you look at IT and how do you support our biz partners, we've had to reorganize. We walked away from being a siloed, app-based, biz-facing IT org, and taken on a shared services model. Things like java, .net, mainframe. Allowed us to scale. My budget has grown year over year in the last 3 years. In addition my team size has grown by 25%.
Steve: As you look at IT and how do you support our biz partners, we've had to reorganize. We walked away from being a siloed, app-based, biz-facing IT org, and taken on a shared services model. Things like java, .net, mainframe. Allowed us to scale. My budget has grown year over year in the last 3 years. In addition my team size has grown by 25%.
D: At Whirlpool, been around 100 years. In 1911 a lot of things were going on -- first plane landed on a ship successfully. Exciting new tech was coming to market. In UK patent was brought forth for a wall clock. All of that was new. Cloud computing back then existed, trying to depict when it was going to rain. Now today, look how fast tech has changed in 100 years. We've seen dawn of tech from rain-based cloud computing to true virtualization, speed to market, ERP platforms... at Whirlpool none of that matters unless it benefits our consumer.
D: As we engage our consumers, our trade partners, we want to make sure on the back-end we can support the volumes of where we see this industry growing. Today it's exciting to be in IT. It's wonderful to be an IT professional in a global CPG company. The challenges we face on a daily basis are new. Can't think of a better profession to be in. Get to support every process, every role within our company. Get to help new products launch.
D: We know today how consumers want to engage us. Through trade partners, web kiosks, social media. We have to be there. Where tomorrow? We don't know. But we have to be prepared to have that answer.
D: We're talking in transaction levels in millions a day. Consumers expect and demand real-time info. We have to be there to support our company and our consumers. As an IT pro we can't be running down the path like a cat to a laser pointer to every tech that hits the floor.
D: All the stuff we deal with on a daily basis, our complexity is growing. Where are we going? This is why we're here. We're moving toward real-time global engagement. Looking at world based upon our consumer engagements supporting our transactional platforms.
D: We operate globally. How we execute needs to be built on a global scale. Consumers talking about products online. We have to support that engagement. Global transactions scaling at levels we never thought of before.
Wieck: Barriers are breaking down between orgs. How are you going to leverage that? Can you innovate, can you change the game, can you think differently?
Jobs said "we do great things at Apple but one thing we don't do well like companies like IBM do is collaborate. We're such controlling people that we don't like to listen to others."
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M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet David Weldon In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M. CLICK FOR MORE
M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet David Weldon In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M. CLICK FOR MORE
