10 Considerations for Your Cloud Contracts – CIO View

Having signed two more cloud contracts this month, it feels like a good time to share what I consider to be my top 10 considerations in negotiating a cloud vendor contract. As I was writing this, I had a hard time culling the list down to just 10. I’ve learned a lot over the yearsContinue reading “10 Considerations for Your Cloud Contracts – CIO View”

User-Centric IT

I went to an interesting CEO/CIO gathering a few weeks back where the concept of User-Centric IT was presented by some of the leading cloud providers.  The concept, pushed and marketed by Box, Marketo, Skyhigh, Jive, Okta, Zendesk, and GoodData, professes that enterprise software should first and foremost focus on the needs of the end-user.  Continue reading “User-Centric IT”