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Introduction
•Aaron Cargas• VP of Marketing and
Product Development at Cargas Systems
•Our Company• Cargas was founded in 1988• Based in Lancaster PA • 90 Employees• Employee Owned • Software Company
•Our Products:• Cargas Energy Software for
Fuel Delivery and HVAC
• Accounting Software:• Microsoft Dynamics GP• Intacct
• CRM Software• Microsoft CRM• Salesforce
Booth: 1339
The Cloud
The Cloud
The 7 Layer Salad
1. Devices
2. Apps
3. Bandwidth
4. API’s
5. Platforms
6. Storage
7. Servers
1. Devices
Mobile is eating the world
Phones and Tablets are more sophisticated than PC’s - Why? Sensors like GPS
iPhone launch weekend: Apple sold 25x more CPU transistors (computing power) than were in all PC’s on earth in 1995. Everyone gets a pocket supercomputer.
Ben Evans – Andreesen Horowitz
By the year 2020 80% of adults on earth will have a smartphone.
Devices with GPS and 4G Data make the cloud useful
1. Devices – What’s in it for propane?
Mobile delivery and service
Cost per vehicle goes down
Capabilities go up
2. Apps
App Economy - 1.6 Million Jobs Created Since 2007
Revolutionizing The Way Field Workers Use Real-Time Data
“To date, the main information-gathering tools used by these workers were the same old clunkers: clipboards, paper forms, and log histories. Those tools are relics
of a past that no longer fit today’s field business processes. They have been replaced by mobile devices, and especially by tablets and mobile apps that allow
information to be relayed to field workers in real time. This is widely known as enterprise field mobility.”
By Mike Morris and Ben Kerschberg - Forbes
2. Apps – What’s in it for propane?Efficiency and Customer Service
Real time information• Hazmat Routes• Will call Tickets• New Pricing
• GPS location• Delivery Status• Follow up notes• Work orders• Gas Check
3. Bandwidth
The 4G LTE Age – Broadband wireless everywhere78% Coverage in the US – And Expanding
http://opensignal.com/
By 2019, the gigabyte equivalent of all movies ever made will cross the global Internet every 2 minutes. Cisco
3. Bandwidth – What’s in it for propane?
Always Connected
Service Vans Delivery Trucks
Office UsersExecutives/Owners
4G 4G
4G Wifi
4. API’s
Application Programming InterfaceA common way for software to
exchange information
APIs have jumped out of the petri dish of the enterprise. There are more than 10,000 public APIs, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. There are a lot of private ones, too,"
Infoworld http://www.blogherald.com/2013/12/22/api-development-important-terms-service-development/
4. API’s – What’s in it for propane?
Routing
Accounting
Tank Monitoring
CRM
API API
APIAPI
5. Platforms
• Capital One uses AWS to shut down 5 data centers. AWS
• Amazon is building a special cloud for the CIA for $660 million
• AWS has $8 Billion Per Year in revenue• Many services are 1/10 the cost of
traditional approaches• Higher Availability than in house servers
On Demand Computing Power
5. Platforms – What’s in it for propane?
What’s in it for business?
Lower costs
Better reliability
Automatic upgrades
6. Storage
Megabyte, Gigabyte, Terabyte, Petabyte, Exabyte, Zettabyte, Yottabyte
The US Library of Congress “had collected 235 terabytes of data by April 2011 and a petabyte is more than four times that.“
Michael Chui, principal at McKinsey
Our society generated 4.4 zettabytes by 2014
We will generate 44 zettabytes by 2020
6. Storage – What’s in it for propane?
Cloud Storage is:
Reliable
Expandable
Automatically backed up
Think iCloud for your business
7. Servers
• Amazon – 2.8 to 5.6 million servers
• Google – 2.3 million in 2013
• Microsoft - > 1 million server in 2013
7. Servers – What’s in it for Propane?
Lower Costs
Focus on your core business, let the data centers deal with servers.
1. Devices
2. Apps
3. Bandwidth
4. API’s
5. Platforms
6. Storage
7. Servers
A few other Cloudy things
With the cloud you don’t worry about:
- Hardware
- Software updates
With the cloud you worry less about:
- Downtime (A Quick Story)
- Reliability
With the cloud you expect better:
- Usability (Web or App Interface)
- Learnability
1. Devices
2. Apps
3. Bandwidth
4. API’s
5. Platforms
6. Storage
7. Servers
Email Documents Collaboration
How can you benefit from the cloud right now?
1. Devices
2. Apps
3. Bandwidth
4. API’s
5. Platforms
6. Storage
7. Servers
Operational Accounting CRM
How can you benefit from the cloud right now?
• Web Based• Real Time Mobile• Built in Routing• Deep functionality• Seamless Upgrades
Best in class cloud accounting
The Hybrid Approach
• Should you move everything to the cloud?• Maybe, maybe not…
• Evaluate each application on the following:• Functionality• Pricing• Security• Your own IT strategy
• What do most companies do?• Use some (increasing number of) cloud applications• Keep some internal servers for certain functions
SummaryThe cloud is a tool for business
•The cloud is real•But it’s not a single thing•It’s controlled by many different companies•It functions like a utility•It can save you money•It can be more reliable•The cloud and internal IT will coexist
