Integration. Redesigned.

In this podcast episode, Cait Porte interviews Alicia Dixon, an experienced ecommerce product leader, about her favorite project and strategies for balancing innovation. Alicia shares the story of how she worked on a project that involved converting an application that ran on Windows CE to an Android application. The project was extremely successful and reduced costs significantly.

The conversation then shifts to how to stay connected and updated in the product community. Alicia emphasizes the importance of going back to basics and having intimate conversations with peers. With the explosion of courses and people trying to monetize product, Alicia actively stepped back from participating in social media. Instead committed herself to reconnecting with somebody else once or twice a week, who is doing similar work and could have challenges that she can relate to. This approach allows for more meaningful conversations, sharing of real-life experiences, and supporting each other's growth.

Finally, they discuss the importance of aligning with people to invest in your career. Alicia recommends finding a product leader whose thinking and style match your own and working for that person to learn from them. Companies are constantly changing, and what may be a good product organization this year might not be a good one next year. However, having a relationship with a product leader who invests in your career can be beneficial and can be carried to several different companies.

Overall, the conversation between Cait and Alicia provides valuable insights into product management, including the importance of balancing innovation and keeping the lights on, staying connected and updated in the product community, and investing in your career by aligning with the right people.

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Johnny Russo is interviewed by Cait - Chief Digital Officer at Lamour, he leads the Direct to Consumer division for six e-commerce brands including Crooks N Castles, Thorlos, and Within. Prior to joining Lamour, Johnny was the Vice President of E-commerce and Marketing at The Kersheh Group, where he was responsible for building the Direct to Consumer division for various brands. Before that, he was the Associate VP of Digital Marketing and E-commerce at Mark’s.

With over 16 years of experience in Digital Marketing and E-commerce, Johnny is passionate about digital transformation and leadership. Johnny often speaks at industry events and writes about it on his blog. He is a published author and an investor in INVICTA Commerce Ventures. He also serves on the Board of Advisors for Etail Canada, NRF’s Digital Council, RCC’s E-commerce Advisory Board, and the Board of Directors of the Calgary Marketing Association.

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• Cait Porte | LinkedIn

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Cait interviews Chris Cortese who possesses an extensive engineering background as a leader for major retail companies such as GoDaddy, Chewy, and Gamestop. Chris's background covers an engineering career of just over two decades. Professionally, his early years focused on lean starts and pure research. After several successes (and failures), he moved in to leadership roles refocusing engineering groups and scaling with growing businesses in terms of people and technology. His most recent roles over the past third of his career have been focused on scaling e-commerce processes and technologies at various points in the customer's journey. A reoccurring theme with all three companies was transforming monolithic tech stacks into scalable, modern architecture’s that were setup for future success.

During this episode, Cait and Chris dive into a multitude of topics including the challenges of legacy migration, digital transformation, what it takes to have successful customer engagement, and learnings along the way. Chris shares his insights working with older generation e-commerce stacks, their drawbacks, and navigating the “song and dance” of maintaining business continuity while making future improvements in their technology. He discusses the challenges of legacy migration, and how having a deep relationship between the engineering and product teams plays a critical role in a successful implementation - for internal teams and ultimately the customer. He also shares the lessons learned from a specific legacy migration project, and how having a holistic view of everything from the start would have ensured a smoother process.

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In this episode of the podcast, host Cait Porte is joined by Tam Ayers to discuss the topic of data decentralization. Tam starts by defining what decentralization of data means, which can differ depending on the industry or company. Centralizing data into a data warehouse or data lake strategy has been growing in popularity in recent years, but the rise of edge IoT and security privacy concerns have made decentralization an important issue. There are two main reasons for this push towards decentralization, including data that cannot be accessed due to regulatory security privacy concerns and data that is being produced in such high quantities that centralizing it is economically unfeasible. Tam explains how the Digibee platform can help companies access and utilize data no matter what source system it is in or where it needs to go to. Overall, having a strategy and technology in place to support data decentralization is crucial for companies facing regulatory and security concerns.

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• Tam Ayers | Linkedin
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Cait is joined by Grant Holden, solutions architect at Digibee with over 15 years in the IT space to discuss the roadblocks and solutions for companies wanting to achieve cloud migration.

They touch on the fears associated with moving from on premises to the cloud, as well as the technological advancements that make it easier than ever to do so.

He walks through Digibee's specific six step methodology to cloud migration - making it a seamless process with Digibee's powerful platform. The key to success is Digibee's ability to run old and new systems in parallel until the enterprise is 100% ready to operate fully in the cloud.

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Cait and Tam dig into the importance of an integration strategy after Digibee's State of Enterprise Integration Report findings reveal only 7% of IT leaders have one in place for their enterprise.

For Tam, choosing the right strategy when it comes to integration centers around three main principles:

1) Evaluate the goals of the business before looking at the tech stack you're attempting to integrate
2) Enable your strategy to be as flexible as possible
3) Future-proof your strategy by adopting modern solutions that keeps innovation at the forefront

Our State of Integration Report also shows people are constantly re-implementing integrations they put in place - but it doesn’t need to be that way. Tam encourages IT leaders to think about the future, not compromise for short-term wins.

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Cait Porte facilitates a roundtable discussion on the published Forrester Total Economic Impact report for Digibee, providing an unbiased view of value that the solution provides for customers. Findings such as payback period, speed to value, and efficiency are discussed amongst the group.

To accelerate the delivery of digital experiences moving forward, there must be an increase in productivity for IT and developers. The report highlights just how much this tool helps achieve this  - reducing time spent on integrations from 300 hours to less than 60 for a customer.

Findings validate Digibee as the developer’s choice for integration - accomplishing the outcomes promised, delivering on value promised, and helping customers unlock even greater experiences in drastically shortened timelines with an effective full lifecycle integration solution.

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• Tam Ayers | Linkedin
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Digibee field CTO Tam Ayers discusses the impact of the announcement that enterprises using SAP ERP will have to migrate to SAP S4/HANA by 2027. This episode dives into variables, challenges, and benefits of the migration. He encourages technology leaders not to think of this as a mandatory or necessary evil - rather as an opportunity for modernization, unlocking a lot of benefits and potential for business’.

The solution was out there before mandated, meaning there’s value in it. Tapping into that sooner rather than later can be instrumental in your strategy. Finding a framework that’s been tested and successful, such Digibee’s 6 step approach to migration, will alleviate a lot of the problems on the road to get there.

Download a copy of SAP S/4HANA Overview here.

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• Tam Ayers | Linkedin
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Cait Porte is joined by Digibee field CTO, Tam Ayers, to discuss Digibee’s published State of Enterprise Integration Report. The report surveyed 1,000 respondents of various roles including CIO’s, web developers, enterprise architects at organizations with an employee base of 500+ to gather insights on the direction of integration for enterprises’.

They reflect on findings such as the impact of lacking integration strategies, what poor integrations can cost the business, and the need for 96% of respondents to spend on re-implementation of integration strategies within one year.

Living in an era of digital innovation with a plethora of new solutions, Tam encourages IT leaders to ask themselves if they are building integrations the way they want, or according to what they have in place. The solution should work for you, not have employees working for it!

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Listen to field CTO Tam Ayers and CTO Peter Kreslins discuss where integration stands today and what the future holds.

While digital experiences come with higher than ever standards from customers and employees, good integrations prove to be the backbone for creating great ones. They discuss how IT leaders are forced to adapt to changing technologies in days and weeks, not years and months to keep with competition - making integration a critical centerpiece for future enterprise IT strategies.

As systems continue becoming overwhelming in number, critical data is left unaccounted for, and silos between work groups increasingly grow - integration must be considered as a centerpiece to the solution for business’. The emphasis for enterprise becomes not only tools that improve collaboration through communication, but collaboration through integration. 

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• Tam Ayers | Linkedin
• Cait Porte | LinkedIn

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