Disruptive Tech Leaders In Cloud Computing

Welcome to an on-going series of interviews with the people behind the technologies in Cloud Computing.  The interviews  provide insightful points of view from a customer, industry, and vendor perspective.  A full list of interviewees can be found here.

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Rick is the founder and CTO of Dell Boomi, responsible for product management and engineering. He is considered an industry expert on SaaS & Cloud integration, multi-tenant architecture, and application programming interface design and best practices. Boomi has a patent pending for its innovative Atom innovation that powers Boomi AtomSphere, the company's cloud integration platform. Rick constantly engages with clients and partners to align their business needs and Boomi's product strategy.

Rick frequently speaks on these topics at industry and business events nationwide including Gartner Application Architecture, Integration and Development Summit, Dreamforce, Cloud Expo and SIIA All About the Cloud..

(RN): Disruption is a choice word here. It actually does pull the rug out from the norm as to how businesses do business today. Today, clients engage with IT vendors resulting in upfront capital expenditures followed by an army of consultants on site to make the thing work. From there, clients pay maintenance for the innovation they bought. Unfortunately, most customers at the time customize. Once customized, clients become locked in and can't upgrade to the straightway version in spite of paying for maintenance. Sadly, this is the norm and the biggest contributor to the 80/20 paradox. Cloud puts the customer first. With cloud's instant access and availability, customers are deploying systems faster and gaining immediate access and availability. Projects that used to take years now take months. Customers can even try out and validate vendor claims previously buying. When customers ask how Dell Boomi's products are different, they can see it with their own eyes. We gain their trust without warning.

(RN): The then and there big thing is standardization. Thought leaders, analysts, media, and standards bodies will culminate to drive core themes of architecture. Cloud vendors must have multi-tenancy or it won't actually work. When I upgrade, I'm upgrading my customer base, not one customer only. From your own SaaS Bill of Rights, there will be a standardization of the operational principles, how we maintenance windows; how we do SLA's. This is the enterprise readiness of the public cloud providers. The environment is right to talk about public cloud standardization, the Bill of Rights, and getting clients comfortable with release cycles they aren't controlling,

In the 2.0 world, we should have standardization around authentication. We standardized how to do the handshake, now we have to standardize how you have the conversation. You can expect to see this happen. Once it does, we'll be better off and SaaS providers will be able to come to market more quickly. API's will be following standards. I believe this is one of the key things that will help us get to the at once phase of maturity. 6. if you weren't focused on Cloud Computing what other disruptive innovation would you have pursued?

The Tech Vendor series is closed

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