TECHNOLOGY
“ If we didn ’ t take a look at these technologies which offer flexibility , agility , and scalability , then we ’ d be left behind ”
James Houlton , CTO , Cadent Gas
our main application support and delivery partner ,” he explains . “ The firm has a wide breadth of experience and a large client base which we can really make use of . In terms of the thinking that ’ s out there , some of the solutions that they ’ re delivering for us are really accelerating our route to market and helping us grow .
“ SAP has also been a key partner as we ’ ve got a large SAP footprint ,” he continues . “ Changes in that space , in terms of engineering capability , are going to be key . Therefore , we ’ re utilising its global experience and the breadth of its customer base to really understand what other people are doing , how they ’ re really being performed , and bringing that back in . It ’ s really accelerating our thinking and our innovation .”
On top of this , Amazon and Microsoft are key partners which Houlton describes as key accelerators for technological innovation . “ Amazon ’ s cloud platform AWS has been fantastic and we ’ re also working with the company to explore how they achieve customer excellence because they are stand-out in this area ,” he says . “ We ’ re working closely with Amazon to see how we can drive innovation across the company more than we could do if we were doing it alone .
“ We ’ re also talking to Microsoft about our challenges and how we could better innovate ,” he continues . “ We ’ re talking to them about analytics , so for example , how we could use the Office 365 platform to really draw out some great analytic insights which could promote employee productivity .”
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