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Highlights Check out Constellation’s October event: Connected Enterprise 2023 What a great sense that things are ALWAYS exciting — but in early days of his career that exciting-ness was slower. “Smith” — highly common last name these days — tied to the old profession of blacksmithing. What’s the new “smith” these days? Probably producting software.…
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Podcast Episode! Season 5 Intro: The Future of Work James and I sat down to ruminate and prepare for our upcoming next season: The Future of Work. It’s obvious that GPT (and especially ChatGPT) has completely saturated everyone’s brains. It seems like we’re finally seeing the veil between front-office and back-office start to tear. But most of all,…
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James and I closed out our season of exploring digital transformation and its various meanings with a wrap-up conversation. Awesome Episodes This Season Season 4 Premiere: Digital Transformation Continuous Everything with Jon Reed Digital Transformation as Improving Processes with Alex Jones De-Mystifying the Digital with Paru Sankar Innovation wit…
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James and Paul sit down with Dustin Bruzenak, co-founder of Modern Logic - a Twin Cities-based software development shop specializing in projects that emphasize compassion and human-centered thought. Dustin offers great thoughts on the software industry: building the products, building teams, and finding your cultural center.…
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Dawn Clark and Lori Beck from Bowdark's Microsoft team guest to help us create a roundtable to geek out over the latest Microsoft Copilot offerings. See https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/03/16/introducing-microsoft-365-copilot-your-copilot-for-work/ for more details.By Dawn Clark, Lori Beck, James Wood, Paul Modderman
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James and Paul talk to Alex Jones (not THAT one) from NetSPI about the heretofore unseen connections between penetration testing and security. Alex brings a fresh perspective from his sales and marketing leadership positions, and it really stretched our imaginations.By Alex Jones, Paul Modderman, James Wood
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Podcast Episode! Season 3 FINALE This is it! The end of season 3! Lots of solid leads on the question “Why can’t IT keep up with the business?” — and probably most importantly, a concession that the question probably started off a bit loaded. I think we came to several points of agreement, led by our awesome guests. Highlights Yeah. It’s a loaded q…
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James and I went down to sunny (sweaty) Orlando for Microsoft Power Platform Conference (MPPC) 2022. Apart from getting to see a great set of announcements, learn a ton, and meet up with past pod-friends we also got the chance to sit down and have a conversation with Charles Lamanna — hot on the heels of his keynote address. Join us for this Very S…
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This is the last guest episode for our season question: “Why Can’t IT Keep Up With The Business?” Luke Komiskey is the founder of DataDrive, a managed analytics provider, with a cool approach to things. Seriously, go check out the website and scroll down to the On Your Own vs Growth Plan comparison. You’ll see what I think is true out there in the …
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Podcast Episode! MAUI Hotness with James Montemagno James and I talked to James Montemagno to take a deep look at tech that will absolutely have an impact on our business app customers. Montemagno leads the developer community team, part of the developer tools division that builds all manner of the tools that many of us nerds use on the daily. I’m …
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Podcast Episode! A Game Of Prioritization with Wade Krzmarzick James and I talked to Wade Krzmarzick, Director of IT at TSI, Incorporated. TSI builds scientific measurement equipment (among other things). He gave us insight into budget and time questions, strategic direction he thinks about, and what makes him most proud of his team. It was a great…
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James and I talked to Michael Pytel, co-founder and CTO of Fulfilld, a cloud SaaS warehouse management startup. As a fellow SAP nerd, we have shared background for commiseration. Michael has done some amazing things with the technology powering Fulfilld, and he and the rest of his team have given a lot of thought to matching that technology up to b…
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James and I talked to Matt Ericson, founder of Trekka Logistics. Matt holds court with great wisdom and energy for his industry and business. He talks about growth, complexity, transparency, and evolving systems to keep things smooth. This is absolutely one of those episodes where — if we didn’t try to keep things down to a sane length — we could h…
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James and I interviewed each other to tee up our third season. Our theory: IT can’t keep up with the business. Our question: why? Lots of things floating around. Ideas. Half-formed questions. Ponderings from earlier in our respective careers. What will we discover? Who will we talk with along the way? FIND OUT MORE this season on Switched On! The g…
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Podcast Episode! Sapphire Orlando Reactions From Bowdorks Money Quotes Tim Champagne Is this just another fragmentation of apps out there? [re: iOS app announcements] Kyle Bitson If you look at what’s happening in the world…supply chain issues…they’re more relevant than they have been in a long time. It’s striking a balance between the technical up…
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Podcast Episode! Season Finale! SOMEONE DIES James and I get together to expertly wrap all the amazing guests, topics, and information we digested over the course of season two. Stay tuned! Someone dies! This season we had the extreme privilege to talk to these awesome folks. Go back and give these episodes a listen. Em D’Arcy regaled us with tales…
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James and I talked to Holger Bruchelt, host of the awesome SAP on Azure podcast (also watch on YouTube) and all around swell guy. Holger put us on the right path with thoughts about platforms and infrastructure, integration and Power Platform, and being a futuristic nerd with GitHub Copilot (a perennial favorite topic of ours). He’s just as fun to …
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James and I talked to Matthias Steiner for the fourth episode in our second season. He took to the SAP Community blogs to defend low-code/no-code (and later reiterated at diginomica), and we took notice. We’d been fans previously because of his influence on the various cloud platform gyrations at SAP, and of course because he’s a willing Twitter pr…
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Podcast Episode! S2E3: Shane Young James and I talked to Shane Young for the third episode in our second season: “Power Platform Democratization”. Shane is the founder of PowerApps911, helping clients with Power Platform training and custom app builds in the Microsoft universe. He’s a fun guy to talk to, and he’s one of the most informative people …
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Podcast Episode! S2 E2: Em D’Arcy James and I talked to Em D’Arcy for the second episode in our second season: “Meeting Demand Through Governance”. This was a refreshing talk for me — I have issues to work through with the word “governance”, and Em is helping me walk the walk and do the work to get there. It’s great material along the course of our…
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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…
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Podcast Episode! Microsoft Ignite with Lori Beck James and I spoke with our highly-esteemed colleague Lori Beck about the recent Microsoft Ignite virtual conference. Lori leads our Microsoft consulting practice, and has great depth of knowledge and insight into Microsoft Dynamics. We had a great time talking about Logic Apps, Power Apps, Teams, and…
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Podcast Episode! Builders and the Developer Spectrum with Riley Rainey James and I spoke with the super-interesting Riley Rainey. Before you get to any of the regular industry-specific goodness we talk about, check out his GitHub repositories focused around replicating the Apollo Guidance Computer. I was tempted not to talk about anything in the SA…
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James and I spoke with the amazing Greg Robinette. Greg works at Newport News Shipbuilding as a systems architect. He’s got great perspective on watching ships being built and then marrying that knowledge to the SAP systems he’s architecting. We had a blast talking about organizational culture, decision-making, and value lifespans…all through the l…
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James and I really dove deep into the recesses of Paul Aschmann’s brain for this one. Paul is a mobility development expert at SAP, originally from South Africa and now living in North Carolina. In the past, Paul started Lithium Labs, which built Metric². Became part of the SAP Startup Focus program (now @SAP_iO), then joined the enterprise mobilit…
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Highlights SAP for 20 years, started out in Basis administration Worked at SAP Labs in Palo Alto, on how to deploy SAP in AWS (so cool) Became a devops lover — but ecosystem wasn’t ready. Jumped into big data instead at Mindtree, then worked with Hadoop, Vora Operations are 3 buckets: build, run, change System administrators have been somewhat unde…
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Highlights Hau’s been doing it 20 years! Fell into analytics accidentally — got into the working world via an on-campus interview with PwC. Wound up getting business consulting training, without really expecting it. First project was in US Navy, doing purchase order stuff with pre-printed forms. Being onsite is a consulting holdover that’s really s…
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James and I spoke with Carmen Bourlon, a virtuoso developer that just so happens to work with us at Bowdark. Carmen created margiemap.com, which visually illustrates the relationship between income levels and library access. She also wrote Let’s Take This Offline, a book introducing developers to the concepts of service workers and progressive web …
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