Mani Gill is the Vice President of OnDemand at Business Objects, an SAP company; he manages the software as a service strategy, direction, and sales for crystalreports.com, Business Intelligence OnDemand and Information OnDemand products. Prior to coming to Business Objects 11 years ago, he was integrating business intelligence technologies into Microsoft Visual Basic, Visual Studio, BackOffice, Dynamics and CRM. Mani is originally from Canada and now lives in Seattle.
Virtualization technologies and the subsequent emergence of cloud computing have changed the game for independent software vendors (ISVs), opening up a bewildering array of hosting, PaaS and SaaS options. This keynote panel brings together top executives from the leading platform providers to answer questions about what the evolving cloud landscape means for ISVs, examining the impact of utility provisioning on business models, development cycles, channel partnerships and customer retentionships.
Moderator: John Chapman - Business Development Director, IT Europa
Panelists: Mani Gill - VP, OnDemand, SAP Business Objects Division; Steve Lucas - SVP, Force.com, Marketing & ISV Recruitment, Salesforce.com; Treb Ryan - CEO, Opsource, Inc; Werner Vogels - VP & CTO, Amazon.com
The VP of OnDemand at SAP BusinessObjects, Mani Gill, and the EVP of Large Enterprise OnDemand at SAP, John Wookey, discuss OnDemand vs OnPremise in Large Enterprises and the differences.
Mani Gill explains how on-demand business intelligence (BI) allows users to deploy a BI solution over the Web with no server or software installation giving insight to customers and partners immediately, without involving IT.
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