>> Narrator: Live from Washington, D.C. It's the CUBE. Covering Boomi World 19. Brought to you by Boomi. >> Welcome to the CUBE, about the leader in live tech coverage. I am Lisa Martin with John Furrier. We're at Boomi World 19 in Washington, D.C. Please welcome one of Boomi's award winners to the program from Gilead Sciences we have the Director of IT, Murali Anakavur. Welcome Murali and congratulations on Gilead being the 2019 Change Agent Award winner for North America. >> Thank you so much Lisa. It's good to receive the award. Lot of efforts have been put in place by our folks. I'm very honored and privileged to receive this award. >> Fantastic. So give our audience an overview of Gilead Sciences. What you guys do and then we'll start getting into the IT infrastructure and all of the great things that you have done with Boomi. >> Definitely. Gilead has been in the forefront of meeting an aspect of medical needs of patients worldwide. Clearly, it's the company, if you recollect, solve the (mumbles) problem in the world. There were the cured from the cure for it that started the company originally to come up to where they are today. They are in the forefront of science and R and D and technology when putting therapeutics for inflammatory infectious, and recently in big cancer treatments and other treatments. So the world is opening up big time. Our focus is to resolve and make medical needs. The company is so focused and they want to provide the cure for all these and it's so passionately too. So all kinds of R and D going on. I'm so honored to be working for a company which is doing this great need for humanity, frankly. >> Absolutely. So the cure for Hepatitis C, that's huge. Whenever we talk about technology where it impacts every single person on this planet, infectious diseases, cancer as you mentioned, it's really... It's pulverizing people understand it. It's--there's a lot of gravity around it. Talk to us about what you needed to implement, from a technology infrastructure perspective, to connect all of these different data sources, so that the next cure for all these different diseases has a foundation from which providers can actually link data. >> Obviously. >> Talk about it. There are some backing sources company, any company needs, let's say ERP system, need some CRM system. Those are good. But our company has the complexity of manufacturing system that needs to make medicines. Company's complexity is the lab systems, R and D systems, product life cycle management systems where things originated in a little molecule for the compound they call it, and it expands into what they say clinical studies on a medicine. So you can imagine the plethora of system that make this happen. So what happens in this environment is now people bring up systems for what they need and ERP does what they need. All of the sudden, "I can't do without customer data." "I can't do without my patient data." "I can't do without my item data." "How do we get the data?" So it becomes--begs the question like, "Oh my gosh, okay we got all these complex systems in place, how are you going to share the data? Who's the master? Where's the source of truth? So all those sort of begging question is that, kind of start up the landscape of integration. So that's where we are. Launched that previous legacy systems for SOA that we have currently. Mostly call it the SD enterprise service. that shares data within the premises. Guess what today? They want, "Hey I've got this Cloud system that I'm accessing. I'm going to buy this sales force commercial systems that could enable me to launch my commerce market better. How do we deal with these guys? How do we reach out to those folks? How do I make my engagement app on the events for doctors? How do I connect with my patients? All these are big question that've been asked. There was a need for system that'll kind of take care of all these diverse platforms in the Cloud on Prim, connect them together, so the data sharing happens. That was the biggest challenge that we have kind of solve right now. And then with Boomi coming on to our platform since a couple of years from in the past, we have matured into a place where we're going to launch a lot of things on Boomi and we are looking forward to it eagerly to consolidate all those legacy innovation platforms into the Boomi world infrastructure. So i's exciting. >> Talk about the IT landscape in your company. What's going on there? How is the structure? What are some of the environment look like? Is it transforming the roles of the people? Stacking and wrecking, is it Cloud, Hybrid, what? Talk about your environment. >> Fantastic. I think the very question getting into our pillars or what we do in IT, right? Our pillars are very simple. First thing is core services, you've got to make it--keep the lights on you've got to sure things are working fine. The next thing we adhere to is people. Who do we need to make all this happen? ITs people, acknowledged management, retain people, the best talent, get the best talent. The third pillar we have is the enabling of technology. And that's where some of us come in to enables. How do we migrate Cloud? Let's say we have a big data platform on an infrastructure, adopt infrastructure, tear down infrastructure on-prem. And you what, it's a plan's base. So the data growth, it's enormous these days. So we are talking about Cloud. We are already have plans, we already have infrastructure in Cloud that we are moving to. So if you look at it, the company's so focused not only on technology which is required to, in this day and age, to talking about data, talking about expansion, elasticity and a computing power you need, yeah, here we are with opting we'll be multicloud recipient and beneficiary, but at the same time we're also focusing on people and the core services we provide as IT. IT is technical, non-technical-- >> So you have multiple Clouds right now? >> Exactly. >> Amazon, Azure. >> Yup, we will have a multi Cloud eventually. Not that everything is online and in perfection, but our plan is to have a multi Cloud strategy going forward because the amount of things that coming to our landscape. >> You're on classic hybrid right now, you've got it all on premises. >> Yes. >> Some Cloud going on. >> Absolutely, absolutely. >> So let's talk about business transformation, digital transformation. You did a great job of articulating the business challenge, the challenges that you needed to solve. From an IT perspective, you have all the hybrid multi Cloud environment. Where did the digital transformation initiative come from? Was it the business saying, "We have so much data and desperate systems. We want to be solving more real world problems. Hi, IT, help us build the foundation that allows that." >> It's fantastic. If you look at our company, our sheer full task is digital transformation. Not just IT or COO. CEO talks about our digital transformation. So everybody, in fact, it was questioned. "Hey, we want to be digital." What does it mean to be digital? Because thing comes up. So in the landscape of ITVR, we are going to be a digital-enabled company. We're going to define what it means. To me personally, digital-enabled means, "Hey, I need to share a piece of data across the landscape, whoever needs it, whenever they need it or where they need it." That's called the digital transformation if you ask me because that enables other systems to consume it, and then provide the care and attention it needs. Be at our customers. Customers are patients. Be at our hospitals that we work with. They're our customers. Employ our customers and turn that, it could be your portal. So we are attacking it from multiple points of view. You want to make sure the technology enablement moving forward in innovation. We care for all these areas of customers where we can really digitally enable them. So focus is not just one point of digitalization, it's customers and patients. How can we give them access? How can we get the feedback? All of them fall into 360 degrees of data enablement. It's so focused and we're so thrilled to have such (mumbles) that can pay a lot of attention to all these things. I think it'll be transforming our company a big time in the next few years with the digitalization that we're looking forward to. Mobile applications. All kinds of things are coming up. >> So why Boomi? Boomi is a Cloud native platform. We saw the video and if you saw that technical keynote this morning that the first videos started up with a few minutes of all the areas in which they were first. But they took this big bet back in 2007 when they were found that they are this single instance multi technic Cloud application. What differentiated Boomi when you guys were looking for the right partner with which is standardized? >> It's interesting because we like the Cloud part. Same time being (mumbles) country and industry, they said, " I can't (mumbles) put it on the Cloud." I mean this was about four years back. Remember, things were not really stable at that time. Or people are wondering, "What? Cloud?" "Where can I put my data?" We chose the Boomi hybrid model which is awesome because it gave us the benefit of both, of material that's in Cloud, I'm taking care of anything that you need to do material, I'm taking care of my processing on site. So that key was that bang say, "Oh wow, that's a fantastic option to have. It's a (mumbles) infrastructure. People can build things faster on Prim, run your case, data cases on Prim, but you have all Cloud metadatas protecting you (mumbles) Everything is easy, (mumbles) SHA. So all those were factors when we decided to go in to Boomi. But we see among others as full. But then the speed of market, less call framework, and also the roadmap they'll have for them. That's very important for us. I mean first thing in technology I want to go for next five years, ten years. Are you welcome with me in the technology? Are you making insights as we talked about today? (laughs) I'm just paraphrasing it. But those all things matter to us. In words, mine is protected. We don't end up with some debt, right? Like they model this platforms to be up to date. So those were our key factors in moving forward with Dell Boomi. >> And so let's talk about some of the business outcomes. You've mentioned a few. But let's look at them kind of categorically. If we look at kind of this over this polarizing industry, being able to study different aspect of man diseases and identify cures for them hopefully, what are some of the business outcomes that you guys are achieving so far with them. You're a Change Agent Award winner, so give us some of those really big wins that you've seen to dates? >> How to be proactive, right? It's a game, it's a data game these days. The more data you have aboard the decision you can make, you're going to differentiate in solving problems, and mean competitive as well. We are trying to see these aspects in the data that we can collect from all places. Now once you have the data, you need some kind of integration that needs to happen to process the data, to share the data to people who need them. That's why integration comes in. Obviously there are other areas where we do big data processing. We need to have some kind of a cluster to compute them and cue some analytics for scientist to see, "Hey, I've got this data. This was inference." And now we can introduce that integration to cue them all the data that they need. What does it take? In my opinion, days and months too can infer through these files and files of data, takes less than 10 minutes for people to now infer. >> Dramatic speed of (mumbles) here. Wow, elaborate on that a little bit. >> And what happens is when you get this huge epidemiology data on the world, you've got thousands and thousands tera bytes of data. Without proper computing and the resources and the modern platform, it's tough for you to count those data to come out with some analytic that people can use. You can ask queries like, "Hey, this disease happens in this area. Tell me the percentage that is relevant to this disease in this area that I need to concentrate on solving the problem." You want to solve big problems and you want to make sure the population benefits from that. So this kind of data gives you inferences that people can research on and say, "Hey, I'm going to focus on this area. It's very predominant." And let's say Africa nation, population is almost about 3 billion, 4 billion people in the world. So let's focus on that disease that gives some traction going on. And that's how you solve the world's problem, one by one, one step at a time. I'm so happy to be involved in that kind of enablement because I'm a very very minuscule part of the whole deal because we work with scientists who are fantastic, who are biologists, who are researchers. Our act in this helps them get to what they need to do. We are completely at their service for what they need and then we just want to enable things for them, make things faster, make the hope comes for them to an R and D, to be more clearer. So that's where we come in. It's more like a service, but industry aspect within the company, but then we are fully fortunate to work for a company that cures diseases and we are part of that journey that they're going through. >> You've just articulated beautifully why you guys won in the Change Agent category. Morally that was outstanding. Congratulations on what you've achieved so far. I'm sure, I'm excited to hear next year where the business goes. We appreciate your time. >> Thanks a lot, Lisa. Nice to talk to you guys today. >> Likewise, thank you. >> For John Furrier, I'm Lisa Martin. You're watching the CUBE from Boomi World 19. (lively music)