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Tell us a lit\u00adtle <\/em><\/strong>bit about your\u00adself and what kind of orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion & role do you work <\/em><\/strong>in?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n I cur\u00adrent\u00adly work for Microsoft\u00ad\u2019s West\u00adern Europe region\u00adal orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion, respon\u00adsi\u00adble for the \u201cSAP on Azure\u201d busi\u00adness enti\u00adty cov\u00ader\u00ading 12 coun\u00adtries in West\u00adern Europe (West\u00adern Europe exclud\u00ading UK, Ger\u00admany and France, which are sep\u00ada\u00adrate regions). Our goal is to take SAP clients to Azure cloud, help\u00ading them with cloud trans\u00adfor\u00adma\u00adtion, and simul\u00adta\u00adne\u00adous\u00adly many clients are also migrat\u00ading to S\/4HANA. Pri\u00ador to this post which start\u00aded in July, I spent 3.5 years lead\u00ading the enter\u00adprise seg\u00adment, a sales unit for larg\u00ader enter\u00adpris\u00ades in Fin\u00adland, and in total my jour\u00adney in IT has last\u00aded 33 years, of which I spent 11 years with SAP. My chil\u00addren have already left home and my wife and I spend time also in Barcelona,\u200bwhere we have a sec\u00adond home.<\/p>\n <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n What is Microsoft\u00ad\u2019s core mes\u00adsage to<\/em><\/strong> its stake\u00adhold\u00aders and customers?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Dig\u00adi\u00adtal\u00adiza\u00adtion is already here and hap\u00adpen\u00ading all around us, enabling a huge num\u00adber of tools and changes to busi\u00adness. Finnish com\u00adpa\u00adnies have tra\u00addi\u00adtion\u00adal\u00adly been good at adopt\u00ading new tech\u00adnol\u00ado\u00adgy, and they should now con\u00adsid\u00ader how to uti\u00adlize dig\u00adi\u00adtal\u00adiza\u00adtion and new tools in their own busi\u00adness. How to tar\u00adget the mes\u00adsage and bet\u00adter serve cus\u00adtomers, how to keep employ\u00adees hap\u00adpy, how to improve oper\u00ada\u00adtional effi\u00adcien\u00adcy, how to cre\u00adate new prod\u00aducts or ser\u00advices? Faced with these issues, dig\u00adi\u00adtal\u00adiza\u00adtion, cloud tech\u00adnol\u00ado\u00adgy and oth\u00ader tools can help, accel\u00ader\u00adate and facil\u00adi\u00adtate. Busi\u00adness\u00ades can be either pio\u00adneers, go with the mass\u00ades or lag behind. Depend\u00ading on the indus\u00adtry, devel\u00adop\u00adment can be real\u00adly fast, and you should get pre\u00adpared for changes in advance.<\/p>\n Sur\u00adpris\u00ading\u00adly, Fin\u00adland seems to be a lit\u00adtle behind oth\u00ader Euro\u00adpean coun\u00adtries, and Finns could be bet\u00adter at grasp\u00ading new oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adties. Dig\u00adi\u00adtal\u00adiza\u00adtion is for every\u00adone and its poten\u00adtial is end\u00adless, regard\u00adless of the core product.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n How do you see your indus\u00adtry evolv\u00ading? Wh<\/strong>at mega trends affect <\/strong>the most and how?<\/strong><\/p>\n Of course, mega trends include cloud com\u00adput\u00ading, dig\u00adi\u00adtal\u00adiza\u00adtion, urban\u00adiza\u00adtion, and in a sense a pur\u00adsuit for indi\u00advid\u00adu\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty. Nowa\u00addays the buy\u00ader, be it con\u00adsumer or busi\u00adness, knows a great deal, because before buy\u00ading they have done their research and looked into options from many sources. Anoth\u00ader relat\u00aded and grow\u00ading trend is that behind tra\u00addi\u00adtion\u00adal IT invest\u00adments, both financ\u00ading and mak\u00ading deci\u00adsions, there are increas\u00ading\u00adly busi\u00adness lines, their needs and financ\u00ading. As a result, the num\u00adber of deci\u00adsion-mak\u00aders is increas\u00ading and dis\u00adpersed. These things are dif\u00adfi\u00adcult to man\u00adage with old ways and tools, there\u00adfore it\u2019s real\u00adly impor\u00adtant to put togeth\u00ader your own dig\u00adi\u00adtal strat\u00ade\u00adgy. Dig\u00adi\u00adtal\u00adiza\u00adtion is not only about arti\u00adfi\u00adcial intel\u00adli\u00adgence and machine learn\u00ading, but it also involves ana\u00adlyt\u00adics tools, lis\u00adten\u00ading to social media, cog\u00adni\u00adtive ser\u00advices, etc.\u2009\u2014\u2009a vast num\u00adber of things that can be com\u00adbined to find updat\u00aded busi\u00adness mod\u00adels rel\u00ade\u00advant to each business.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Best thing<\/strong>s about your job?<\/strong><\/p>\n Export\u00ading SAP to Azure gives a broad overview of dif\u00adfer\u00adent coun\u00adtries, cul\u00adtures, cus\u00adtomers and indus\u00adtries across Europe. I con\u00adstant\u00adly learn a lot, and I can act as a link between dif\u00adfer\u00adent coun\u00adtries, shar\u00ading best prac\u00adtices and exam\u00adples. I trav\u00adel a lot and always come back wis\u00ader. Tak\u00ading busi\u00adness sys\u00adtems to the cloud is one of Microsoft\u00ad\u2019s glob\u00adal strate\u00adgic focus areas and of course it is inter\u00adest\u00ading to be at the so-called core. It has its own chal\u00adlenges, but invest\u00adment, under\u00adstand\u00ading and inter\u00adest are high. Because busi\u00adness solu\u00adtions is a big and wide-rang\u00ading area, work\u00ading with part\u00adners and cus\u00adtomers is extreme\u00adly impor\u00adtant. The part\u00adners\u2019 knowl\u00adedge and expe\u00adri\u00adence of the sys\u00adtems is invalu\u00adable to us.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n What are the top three things on your desk\u00adtop for next year?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/isletgroup.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Copy-of-Islet_image_name_News_Cover_Story_433x6692-194x300.png\")
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