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Yes, please. This can't happen fast enough.
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This conversation is ongoing, obviously, and will expand this week at Sapphire. James gives a good starting point of the issues for discussion.
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If you collect all the data about a process as it executes, you're in a much better position when it comes to optimizing that process.
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I love James' summary of using mobile devices for decision management: "Automate decisions and use mobile devices to provide context for those decisions and to deliver decisions to people out and about. Don’t send them reports. Please."
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Demo of Salesforce's workflow on YouTube: low res, but you can see the graphical process editor around 14:00.
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The dangers of just using EC2 and thinking of it as a proper scalable and resilient cloud infrastructure.
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"…public clouds were more expensive than internal infrastructures, at least for big companies that had already sunk a lot of money into their infrastructures and optimized them using virtualization." Well, duh, of course they are! The point is to avoid future costs in expanding that infrastructure, not comparing it by assuming that the sunk costs are not included in the comparison.
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A lot of business departments are "going rogue" and purchasing cloud-based applications without going through the usual IT channels. Often, IT is not aware of this, and would likely have kittens if they were.
