CIO

Integration has gotten a lot easier over the last 10 years, but data management is still the challenge. Why get fancy pushing around bad data nobody trusts?

A6 - It should be cast as a top priority. It has to be about integration and connectivity. The reality is that organizations increasingly have to support interactions with people, software, intelligent devices and large amounts data.

@nbrisoux @chrisbadger Would love your insight on this

For CIOs the ability to provide and govern data sets coming from the core CRM, ERP, HCM apps is big value add to enable business insights.

Integration needs to happen at both data and application levels. An underestimated challenge is in finding the right third-party data that augments the value of existing enterprise data, such as third-party weather or government data.

start with the end in mind; there are so many flexible strategies and tools out there that once you know the outcome you're aiming for the means of getting there should not be the challenge it was 3,5,10 years ago

Also, as it becomes easier to add niche applications for tasks like talent management, financial close, or marketing campaign management, the need for timely and easy integration becomes greater. Otherwise, CIOs have more silos to manage

It's easy to imagine how a new data source can create value when put together with your planning models, but harder to actually use that to drive business outcomes. We're talking about doing some of that here at Hub18.

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@hyounpark great point about considering finding/adding right 3rd party data to augment enterprise data. There could be a day there is an eBay like marketplace for sourcing trusted 3rd party data.

@Anaplan A common challenge I see across organizations is discovering where the data that can help answer their questions resides. Solving the integration problem is only part of the challenge.

Right, and the data has to lead to insights, which lead to real conversations

Great planning comes when the business value of the data is independent of the data structure of the model itself--then many users can understand what that data means and come up with new ways to use it to create value and drive change.

@nbrisoux And not only where is the data, but who is in charge of the data and how can I access the data? Data must be secure, but also has to be available for relevant users

@NedDemong @jsa_sf @hyounpark @davemario @Rup3r7_7 @AnaplanBillm @chrisbadger @nbrisoux

The customer stories! So many amazing transformations and results.

The Malcolm Gladwell keynote was a strong reminder that using the wrong tools will get you bad results. A good message for CIOs: don't perfect bad tools; create good tools that are aligned to your actual business goals

Agree. Loved Coca Cola's story! They were fully implemented in 8-12 weeks!

It's been about humanizing data to me. Talking about getting the insights that lead to real business conversations

Sara Park at Coca-Cola is a phenomenal change agent.

Hard to pick one thing, my top two are the customer panel during the closing on Tuesday and Malcolm Gladwell; how often does the outside keynote speaker's POV truly sync with the goals and culture of the company he is speaking to? #thatwascool

@hyounpark Agreed! tools have to be aligned with business goals

Sara is a rock star at this conference! 6 weeks to launch her model on Anaplan vs. 6 years to implement their last system.

All the customer success stories. Great to hear how Anaplan is making companies successful!

Malcolm Gladwell and all the customer stories and insights.

Some of the most valuable information is in business plans, but it is hiding in spreadsheets. CP is a new area of governing critical info.

A3 - I think it has to mean moving toward a connected and conversational enterprise. There are conversationas around planning that require it be connected. It’s about agile decision making

@DaveMario Yes collaboration is a key part of Connected Planning. I like the notion of a conversational enterprise.

@DaveMario Yes, being able to react more quickly to changes in the market through greater insights of the entire enterprise.

A3 CIOs need to bring asset management, service management, financial management, and related business KPIs together to manage IT. Connected Planning provides that holistic visibility that is currently missing

Connected planning can mean career growth and goal achievement for the CIO, imagine the impact of having built and scaled a platform that allows business leaders to think differently, measure performance differently, and ask different questions of the business

@NedDemong It's definitely a category for CIOs to bring a lot of value to their peers as a steward of the business

Connected Planning for the CIO and IT can be the conduit or gateway to be in synch with the LOBs and functions. Most CIOs want to get involved in enterprise apps relevant across the enterprise.

@jsa_sf Can you explain what connected planning means?

@ReeshaDedhia It's about connecting financial, corporate and operational planning so they become dynamic, responding to changes in the world. Planning becomes more collaborative and adaptable. Less time on interlock, more on creating a future.

A5 - It’s a strategy inclusive of all the people, process, and technology changes you need to consider when transforming your business to become a data-first organization. You have to think of the business prob you’re trying to solve. reducing risk, customer insights

Building the right skills sets to manage this type of data and then building the right kind of APIs to take advantage of it.

Simply acknowledging that every document, message, stream, & video is data is a starting point. CIOs brought up in a traditional database or data warehouse environment need to start treating data traditionally pushed directly to storage as potentially analytic data.

We've got tech stacks now that can bring in all that unstructured data but as @jsa_sf says the challenge is managing it.

@DaveMario Agree! Data is dumb. Modern data platforms can help drive change, but it all starts with the business user. Tools don't understand your business, you do.

@nbrisoux So it's all about selecting the right tool for the job?

And having the right instruction manual :)

@Rup3r7_7 Yes, you need solutions that give you flexibility and can scale easily, These help drive the processes you will need to succeed.

I think they would overwhelmingly say data security, but how much safer is it on prem?

good point! a lot of it has to do with data access

A big challenge CIOs face is managing security and governance of enterprise data when their LOBs are adopting the myriad solutions that help solve their business problems.

Also, cloud economics can be deceiving across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS: it's easy to start, but deploying cloud at an organizational level can be expensive if you lose track of your cost structure

I would also say understanding and reacting to the fact that the perimeter isn’t limited to just your data center.

@nbrisoux And creating a unified set of policies and processes for mixed deployment models.

@Rup3r7_7 Mixed deployment policies are a big cloud bugaboo right now: it's really tough to be consistent when every vendor seems to want to define resources, instances, licenses, and usage differently. Without third-party reconciliation & definitions, this is really tough