SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard emerged bullish and beaming from his keynote address at the SuccessConnect conference in San Francisco as well he might on the back of announcing the world's biggest Cloud applications deployment to date.
“We've demonstrated that we can scale,” says Dalgaard of the massive deal with German electronics giant Siemens AG, which sees 420,000 people across 80 countries, and speaking 20 languages, added to the global SuccessFactors user base.
In the latest of our series of videos from the Business Cloud Summit 09, we talk to customers on the frontline of the Cloud.
We said that 2009 was the Year of the Cloud. We were wrong. In reality it was a year of the Cloud, albeit an important year. It was the year that Cloud Computing adoption gained sufficient traction that even if your organisation hadn't begun to roll out Cloud-based technologies, it needed at least to put them on the corporate agenda for consideration.
It was against this backdrop that the first Business Cloud Summit was held. Reflecting the greater and more mainstream take-up of Cloud Computing, this year's Business Cloud Summit is very much The Business Cloud – One Year On! We're going to be hearing from even more of the increasingly established and experienced practitioners of Cloud Computing in both the private and public sectors. You really won't want to miss this... Read more.