Intro: Simplifying the Multi-Vendor Mess

Switched On with Paul Modderman and James Wood

Podcast Episode! New Season: “Simplifying the Multi-Vendor Mess”

We have a thesis: the enterprise tech world continues to move to best-of-breed; and while new solutions abound, organizations continue to feel the pain of improving their overall business processes while simultaneously keeping their disparate systems in harmony. The “multi-vendor mess”. This episode is an introduction and the first of a short season on this thesis. The rest of the season will feature luminary guests and interesting topics related to this mess, and innovative ways — and tools — to solve it.

Highlights

• First episode switching more strongly into a seasonal format: “Simplifying the Multi-Vendor Mess”
• We have so many opportunities for improvement across information technology as a whole.
• Excited to get the guests on who can highlight even more of the pieces at play.

Money Quotes

James

There’s such a backlog of requests, no one can even wrap their arms around it…at best, you keep the lights on.

The reality is: we live in a best-of-breed world now.

We can use technology not just for the sake of using technology.

Paul

Rather than just make the pipes better, we can make the business processes better if we attack that tools angle of the question.