CTO Blog

Today – while writing this short post at our Les Fontaines premises, north of Paris -  is a very cloudy day. An appropriate backdrop indeed for our announcement of SkySight, quite an interesting and ambitious cloud orchestration service that we are launching together with Microsoft. I guess you can read the press announcement yourself and by all means, have a look at the accompanying infographics, videos and showcases.
Just to make sure you see things in the right perspective: when it comes to cloud services, integration and orchestration are not the meaning of life.

Well, not to most of us, that is.

When you dive deep into the mechanics of what makes SkySight work, you appreciate the impressive complexities of bridging public and private cloud deployments and being able to seamlessly switch between them, satisfying possible local requirements around data sovereignty and privacy, linking services together of potentially many different solution vendors and creating one, integrated dashboard that provides all the cloud services oversight managers could possibly need from different perspectives.

Still, there is only one part of SkySight that will matter to most of its users. It’s what materializes the platform, Actually, it's where the proof of the pudding will be.

It’s all about the catalogue.

Having access to a rich, always growing and renewing store of IT application services is what will make business move and change. It’s about getting inspired by the art of the possible, finally using information technology again to create business value without getting sucked in by the phenomenal complexities of safely, reliably and quickly delivering it.

The real essence of the cloud is that we only see the outside, not being bothered with what is inside. It’s what we call the Business Cloud, and with all the unavoidable buzz around the launch of SkySight, it’s really what the announcement is all about.

Once we start to get that, the opportunities are unlimited. Sky high, if you like.