Defining Next Generation Enterprise IT [video]

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David Weil: It's not necessarily a specific technology, but more it's the way that we stitch together various solutions to create a synergistic environment that provides much more personalized experiences for our users, and a rich set of data for the institution.
John Rathje:I think the move into this new modality of thinking isn't so much about the hardware, isn't so much about the software, isn't so much about the culture, but it's about all of them together. I think there's this symbiotic behavior where innovators will put something in front of us, will leverage it, and then will ask for more. And that more drives some additional behaviors of creativity and additional innovation. In addition to that our students are bringing numbers of innovations to us, and they're expecting a home like experience as they embrace their learning environment, and they embrace the educational experience perhaps in residence halls. So we're learning that we have to adapt to them as well, and understand how to leverage and bring all those factors into their experience.
David Weil:One of the things that I think is really central to the next generation of enterprise IT is data. It's about data governance, it's about the free flow of data between systems, and across the institution. In ways that I don't think have occurred in the past, where you had business units that would be possessive of certain types of data. I think data is being viewed as an institutional asset now, and then I think the technology is evolving to the point that allows for the free flow of this data. And that's really one of the differences I see in this next generation from where we are today, which is has more siloed systems, or monolithic systems.
John Rathje: I agree.