We recently reviewed the many fall tech events happening in the Bay Area and elsewhere and just got back from a few CIO-specific conferences last week. There have been a wide range of topics covered during recent events, including the next wave of cloud computing, cloud analytics, integration platform as a service (iPaaS), big data and big data integration.
Last week in Miami Beach we were at the Technology Business Management (TBM) Conference, which brought together Global 2000 CIOs, CTOs and CFOs to hear from peers and learn about new solutions on the market that can help modernize and transform enterprise IT organizations. While at the TBM Conference we had the opportunity to speak with CIOs and other IT leaders about how SnapLogic customers have reduced the complexity of their integrations by up to 85% and connected data, applications and APIs at least 4x faster. We also discussed common use cases for our platform such as cloud and on-premises application integration, digital marketing, big data analytics, self-service for “citizen integrators,” and the establishment of an agile enterprise integration layer or fabric.
At the Midmarket CIO Forum in Tucson, also last week, we met with CIOs from a variety of industries and reviewed the new data, application and API integration challenges that are facing today’s IT leaders. We discussed the “Integrator’s Dilemma” and how older, more traditional ETL tools and approaches to integration aren’t built for the new data challenges. Lastly, we talked about how to avoid getting “SMACT” summed up by the following:
- Don’t settle for SO SO (same old, same old)
- The first step to solving the Integrator’s Dilemma is recognizing it exists!
- When it comes to Social, Mobile, Analytics, Cloud computing and the Internet of Things – wait to integrate!
You can find our presentation slides here. Also be sure to check out some of the social buzz below from TBM Conference and the Midmarket CIO Forum, as well as our infographic here on why CIOs are getting “SMACT”:
