Q. You would be one of the pioneers, you know, and at the front end of this cloud migration wave from the point of view of health systems and health care providers. What does that feel like?
Kristin: We’ve seen the financial services and other sectors that have already made this transition. When I speak with other CIOs it’s clear that everyone’s looking at Cloud and Software as a Service. Many applications that are already in the portfolio are SaaS. So, CIOs are taking a gradual approach.
But it also depends on the investments that have been made historically, in data centers. Some CIOs have built their data centers from the ground-up and invested significant amounts of money in doing that. For us, it was a very different picture when we started looking at our investments and how many data centers we had. Overall, the business case for us to move to the Cloud really made sense. For other organizations it may not make sense at this time. But, taking that gradual approach might.
