I recently had the pleasure of speaking to both CSC's Chief Innovation Officer and President, Office of Innovation, Lem Lasher and Cordys' Chief Strategy Officer Jon Pyke on their companies' recent partnership announced this month (see press release on ebizQ here).
In this podcast, you'll hear about the partnership, as well as Pyke and Lasher's take on the following topics:
* Cloud computing and BPM: how they can be utilized by companies to enable
rapid and effective change and innovation,
* Why this is important for enterprises in today's economic
climate, and
* The problems the Cordys platform solves for companies
Listen to or download the 6:30 podcast below:
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Can you give me a brief background of Cordys cloud computing strategy and just brief summary of the recent partnership with CSC?
JP: Okay, this is Jon Pyke. I'll just take the first part of the questions now. Cloud strategy is to provide a business operations platform, which is capable of operating in three modes: either in an on-premise mode, or on cloud mode, or in a hybrid of those two. What makes it different from anything else out, what really gives it its cloud credentials are that the product was built from the ground up to be fully multi-tenanted, and also its only accessible via our browser. It's capable of operating in the cloud environment. And then around that, there was a SaaS deployment framework which enables you to handle all of provisioning, all of the metering, the monitoring, and usage, and all that kind of stuff. So it's a complete for want of a better word middleware capability based around strong process capabilities, which are breaks in the cloud; it's a unique product
LL: So the partnership between CSC and Cordys started about 18 months ago. And we've been working together on a number clients and projects and recently decided to strengthen that relationship which involved CSC becoming a reseller of the Cordys Technology and the transition of their Benelux Services Organization into CSC so that we will have a Center of Excellence for professional services around Cordys Technology that would headquartered in Putten in the Netherlands and we'll be integrating that organization as well as building up the capabilities globally for CSC in the Cordys Technology.
We think this is a an excellent platform for addressing specific business issues that our customers have and we found it to be very effective in addressing those issues and as a catalyst for business transformation which is really the core business that we're in.
How can cloud computing and business process management be utilized by companies to enable effective change and innovation?
JP: This is John Pyke again. I think the real effectiveness of this approach is because the product provides a process abstraction by it is completely decoupled from anything that you might have in place already so there's no need to rip and replace. It means you can take your existing infrastructure and existing applications and kind of move those into a cloud environment. That kind of gives you a bridge to move between the on-premise world into the cloud world. And in doing so, it gives people -- it gives customers the opportunity to migrate what they feel comfortable in migrating so they can derive benefit from cloud computing but without going the whole (inaudible) if they don't need to.
Why is this important for enterprises in today's economic climate?
LL: Well, there's two things that are driving it. First of all, is the pace of change that they're faced with is much greater than it has been in the past. And the need for the introduction of new services, or new products, or changing their organizational structure, or their business processes to align more to their market means that they need to change more quickly than they can have their legacy systems change to support them. And the expense and the time necessary to do that is simply a barrier to them growing their business so that's the first driver on this is the need to change related to that.
The second is cost reductions. By moving part of the enterprise onto the cloud, they could achieve a lot of virtualization economics by using leveraged infrastructure, leveraged applications, leverage resources that they couldn't do otherwise. And rather than have an enterprise wide platform that connects to the Internet, the Cordys Business Operation Platforms in fact puts the enterprise onto the network and it becomes central to their overall strategy and addresses a lot of the integration issues with their internal organization as well as outside. So we think two things are driving it: the need to change front end as well as backend processes or obstructors, data models as well as economics of saving money and not having to rip out legacy systems every time you want change.
What problems specifically does the Cordys platform solve for companies?
LL: Well, what it does is that it puts between the legacy applications and the business an abstraction layer that enables the business to view the technology in a much more simplified form and be to able to architect business process change and then let the technology execute the processes. This is a huge advantage as opposed to trying to build a system up from scratch to introduce all the functionality and the data that's necessary to run the business. Organizations can simply leave their legacy applications in placed, deploy this platform, and empower the users in the organization to model the process change they want to put into effect and then the tools in business operations platform are then able to execute those.
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