 Okay, we're back here live in Las Vegas, this is theCUBE. SiliconANGLE, Wikibon's flagship program. We go out to the events, extract the signal from the noise. I'm John Furrier, the founder of SiliconANGLE. I'm joined by co-host. Hi everybody, I'm Dave Vellante, wikibon.org. Jagesh Sahiba is here. He is the chief architect of the ADP Innovation Labs. He's a CUBE alum. Jagesh, welcome back to theCUBE. Nice to be here. It was in New York, we had you on, right? It's Mongo. Absolutely. It was TenGen, now it's Mongo, they changed the name. Good move. You had the founder of Datastacks on earlier today. Should I ask them, John? Are you going to change your name to Cassandra? Well, anyway, welcome back. Good to see you again. Good to be here. So the ADP Innovation Labs, you have a lot of titles. You're CTO, VP, but the ADP Innovation Labs, really, you're the latest focus. Talk about the Innovation Labs. A lot of people don't associate ADP with a technology company, an apps company, somebody who's playing in the cloud because you've got a reputation in a lot of other businesses, but talk about the Innovation Labs. So Innovation Lab was started a few years ago and our mission is to create relevant, consumable, cutting-edge technology solutions for our clients so they can manage their most important assets, the people. And our offering today is our mobile offering out of the Innovation Labs, but we have a number of other initiatives that we're working on to introduce new ideas and solutions in our products. Okay, so we got to ask you. So we were sharing the Wall Street Journal article this morning, so you and your CIO and some of your other colleagues were quoted. There was an article in the CIO Journal within the Wall Street Journal about ADP and the interesting piece that a lot of people don't know is that you guys are a major player in the human resource, human capital management marketplace. You compete with the likes of Oracle, SAP, your IDC has you number three in the marketplace behind those two, Workday, obviously up and coming. So talk about your initiatives, let's start specifically with the HR piece, but let's talk more broadly about the software in a moment as well. So we offered the broadest array of products in area of H&M, human capital management. And ADP, innovation is nothing new to ADP but I think more concentrated efforts out of the labs and having dedicated environment within a company like ADP to foster that kind of attitude is a revision of our CIO microphone to, and you must have heard that we opened another location in the city to kind of further his vision of bringing innovation culture to ADP. Now, so you guys, obviously there was in that article they talked about how you guys, you know, leveraged LinkedIn and for recruiting. So talk a little bit about your area of emphasis in that space. Are you sort of more recruiting, talent management? Are you doing core HR? Where's your, where's the innovation focus? So we're very well aware of the major disruptor in the market for us, be mobile, social, cloud-based computing and analytics, right? And we're embracing all these technologies and looking at our products at and say, how can we ingrain social within our products? Not as a bolt-on but kind of ingrain social aspects throughout our product line. So when user is using our system, they have the capability and ability to make informed decisions either through real-time analytics within our products, as well as leveraging the social medium to get the job done. So it is nothing to say it is concentrated on one area of ADP where we're realizing this disruptor in the marketplace and improving our products by ingraining these concepts. I mean, you guys are developing, I'm already on hundreds of applications, right? Yes, we have hundreds of applications, we've used 60 years of industry experience. The breadth is quite varied. Yeah, so talk about cloud a little bit in how the whole SaaS model has changed your business because you guys have been around for a while. So you had to respond to that trend. Talk about how you've responded. So today we have over 300,000 clients on our SaaS platform and we're not new to SaaS. I think my component has been saying all along that we've been doing cloud for a long, long time and being able to bring services quickly in a very cost-effective manner to end user with the minimum requirement from our clients, minimum investment for our clients and consume services from the cloud makes perfect sense in the industry we are in. So talk a little bit more about the innovation lab. So roughly how big is it? What's the process that you guys use to innovate? Is it R&D versus just applied engineering? What is it? Now the innovation is nothing to say we create something, we throw it over the wall and our products adapt, right? We do grow products, incubate products. You can think of it as a startup within a big company with deep pockets, per se, if I could say that. But it is a startup mentality that we're trying to, innovate, use technologies and really step out of the box. So you're building products, you're building. We're building products, we still own mobile, we still operate mobile out of the innovation labs and the idea is that grow the product, grow the technology, use it, understand it, operate it and graduate it so our other products can leverage the similar technology. You guys have a big customer base, obviously payroll, HR, all those things that run companies, you can't really get things wrong. You got to have all kinds of back up and redundancy. So how has Splunk helped you? Let's talk about the conference here and tie that back. So obviously it must be a godsend for you to have Splunk because you have all this data, different structured data, unstructured data. Can you just elaborate on this one? Absolutely, so a few years ago when we rolled out our mobile solutions offering, we wanted, it was a business critical application, right? We were embracing mobile and we wanted to have complete visibility and 360 degree view of how this product is functioning, how it's being received in the marketplace and have that feedback loop so we can improve product continuously by collecting real data and real information the way our end user uses it. And Splunk is a critical component of the success we had with this product. Using Splunk, we're able to monitor end to end. So imagine a web request entering your web tier going all the way to your backend systems and databases. We're able to monitor and have traceability of the request all the way through our systems to detect and understand the processing steps, help us identify root cause of the problem. More importantly, going beyond IT ops, we're using Splunk to capture a lot of the business metrics so our product managers can make informed decisions on what feature functions are used more often, when they're used, do we see during the tech season on April 14th, W2 statements went off the roof. So now we have real data feeding back into our product cycles and that's very important what Splunk brings to the table. We were at Oracle Open World last week, we had Max Shireson on theCUBE from CEO of Mongo. You guys are Mongo customer. How are you using Mongo and Splunk together and are you forcing those guys or helping those guys work together? They're quite a complementary technology. Mongo is our mobile database and our caching layer and Splunk gives us visibility. Not only for Mongo, we did create a custom application to monitor MongoDB, but Splunk is giving us visibility throughout the landscape. Every systems we touch as part of the offering of the mobile solutions, we're able to monitor and understand the usage patterns. Okay, so talk about mobile real quick. Mobile, I know we're tight on time, but I want to get your take on mobile, bug sense, big announcement for these guys and also in your business. How is mobile shaping how you guys think about the technology? Yeah, I'm excited to learn about bug sense. Today we instrumented our application to collect information such as your offline activity and feed it back to the server side. What bug sense will allow us to do is capture much more detailed information. So I'm interested in learning about bug sense. But mobile in general, right? It is a necessary component of our offering and the reception of the mobile offering has been tremendous to date. So guys, thanks for coming inside theCUBE. I'll give you the final word. Tell the folks out there what it's like here at the conference. Obviously it's growing, it's still an intimate community here amongst the Splunkers, the employees, and then the customers. I don't know what you call, I guess you'd call the customers Splunkers, but explain to the folks the vibe, the feeling. What's it like here? Describe in your own words what's going on here. I find this extremely energetic. Splunk people are gracious. They've been very helpful and the event has been absolutely phenomenal. And they're fun, right? And they're fun. And we have a great venue. Great venue, but I think people make the difference, right? I mean, my interactions with Splunk people has always been absolutely fantastic, very friendly, very upfront, very direct, and very easy to work with. Yeah, and they're smart too. And they're very, they loved, like I said yesterday, I wrote a blog post on it. They're very product-centric. They're a product-centric company. They believe in product excellence, which I love to hear from a product guy. So good product always saves the day and good marketing and good market momentum helps as well. And absolutely customer-focused too. It helps as a megatrend called big data. Machine data, data exhaust. As we say, spinning data exhaust into gold, as they say yesterday. Jess, thank you so much for coming inside. I think you really appreciate it. It's good to be here. Thank you very much. ADP, great company. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you for the journal. Feature story yesterday, congratulations. Innovation labs, analytics, great stuff. We'll be right back. theCUBE exclusive coverage in Las Vegas. I'm John Furrier with Dave Vellante. This is theCUBE. We'll be right back with our next guest after this short break. theCUBE.