 Live from Washington DC, it's theCUBE. Covering Boomi World 19, brought to you by Boomi. Welcome to theCUBE, but the leader in live tech coverage, I'm Lisa Martin with John Furrier. We're at Boomi World 19 in Washington DC. Pleased to welcome one of Boomi's award winners to the program from Gilead Sciences. We have the director of IT, Morally Anacavore. Welcome, Morally, 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. A lot of efforts have been put in place by our folks, so 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 is being in the forefront of meeting unexpected medical needs of patients worldwide. And Gilead is the company, if you recollect, solve the epituracy problem in the world. They were the cure for it, and that's started the company, originally to come up to where they are today. They are in the forefront of science and R&D and technology when pouring therapeutics for inflammatory, infectious, and recently in big cancer treatments and auto treatments. So, the world is opening up big time. Our focus is to resolve unmet medical needs. The company is so focused and they want to be, they want to be probably the cure for all this. And it's so passionately too, it's all kinds of R&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. We, 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, you know, 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, you know, glean data. Obviously, I'll talk about it. There are some backend services company, any company needs, let's say ERP system, I need some CRM system, those are good. But our company has the complexity of manufacturing systems that needs to make medicines. Companies' complexities of lab systems, R&D systems and product lifecycle management systems where things originated in a little molecule for the compound they call it and it expands into what is a clinical studies and a medicine. So I can imagine the plethora of systems that make this happen. So what happens in this environment is now people spring up systems for what they need and ERP does what they need. All of a 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 I get the data? So it becomes, begs the question, like, oh my gosh, okay, we got all these complex systems in place. How are we going to share the data? Who is the master? What's the source of truth? All those are begging questions that kind of start up the landscape of integration, right? So that's where we are, launch that previous legacy systems for SOA that we have currently, mostly call it the ESB Enterprise Service plus it shares data with them, the premises. Now guess what today? Hey, I've got this cloud system that I'm accessing. I'm going to buy this Salesforce commercial system that's going to enable me to launch my commerce market better. How do I deal with these guys? How do I reach out to those folks? How do I make my engagement app on the events for doctors? How do I connect with my patients? So all these are big questions that we've been asked. So there was a need for a system that will kind of take care of all these diverse platforms in the cloud, on-prem, connect them together so that the data sharing happens. So that was the biggest challenge that we are trying to solve right now. And then with Pumi coming on to our platforms in 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 Pumi and we are looking forward to it eagerly to consolidate all those legacy integration platforms into the Pumi world infrastructure. So it's exciting. Talk about the IT landscape in your company. What's going on there? How's it structured? What does some of the environment look like? Is it transforming the roles of the people? Stacking and racking? Is it cloud, hybrid? Talk about your environment. Fantastic. I think it's a great question getting into our pillars of what we do in IT, right? Our pillars are very simple, right? First thing is core services. You got to keep the lights on. You got to make sure things are working fine. The next thing we adhere to is people. So who do we need to make all this happen? IT's people, knowledge 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 enable us. How do I migrate to cloud? Let's say we have a big data platform on an infrastructure, a dope infrastructure, teradata infrastructure on-prem and you know why, it's a plane space. So we, the data growth is enormous these days. So we are talking about cloud. We are already out of plants, we already have infrastructure in cloud that we're moving to. So if you look at it, the company is so focused not only on technology, we're just required to, in this teenage, to talking about data, talking about expansion, elasticity and the computing power you need. Yeah, there we are. We're adopting, we will be a multi-cloud, recipient and beneficiary, but at the same time we're also focusing on people and the core services we provide is IT. IT is technical, not difficult. So you have multiple clouds right now, Amazon, Azure. Yeah, we will have a multi-cloud eventually, not that everything is online and in production, but our plan is to have a multi-cloud strategy going forward because of the amount of things that come into our landscape. You're a classic hybrid right now. You got a lot on-premises, some cloud going on. Absolutely, absolutely. So let's talk about business transformation, digital transformation. You did a great job of articulating the business, rather the challenges that you needed to solve. From an IT perspective, you have all of the hybrid multi-cloud environment. Where did the digital transformation initiative come from? Was it the business saying we have so much data in disparate systems, we want to be solving more real-world problems? Hey, IT, help us build a foundation that allows that. It's fantastic. If you look at our company, our CFO talks about digital transformation, not just IT. Our CEO talks about our digital transformation. So everybody, in fact, it was question A, we want to be digital. What does it mean to be digital, right? The question comes up. So in the landscape of IT VR, 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, over 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 it our customers, customers of patients, be it our hospitals that we work with. They are our customers. Employees are customers. Internet, you know, it could be your portal. So we are attacking it from multiple points of view. We want to make sure the technology enablement, moving forward in innovation, we care for all these areas of our customers where we can really digitally enable them. So focus is not just on one point of digitalization, it's customers or patients. How can we give them access? How can we get the feedback? All of them fall into 360 degree view of data enablement. So it's so focused and we are so thrilled to have such leadership that can pay a lot of attention to all these things. And I think it will be a transforming our company a big time in the next few years with the digitization we are looking forward to. Mobile applications, all kinds of things are coming out. So why Bumi? Bumi is a cloud-native platform. We saw the video, I don't know if you saw the technical keynote this morning, the first video 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 founded, they are this single instance, multi-tenant cloud application. What differentiated Bumi when you guys were looking for the right partner with which to standardize? It's interesting because we like the cloud part, at the same time being a real compliance or in a country in the industry. We said, I can't really put it on the cloud. I mean, this was about four years back. Remember, things were not really stable at that time or people were wondering what cloud, should I, can I put my data? So we chose the Bumi hybrid model, which is awesome because it gave us the benefit of both our metadata in the cloud and take care of everything that you need to do. Metadata, I'm taking care of my processing on site. So that gave us that bang, say, oh wow, that's a fantastic option to have. It's a very thin infrastructure. It's, people can build things faster on-frame, run your case, data cases on-frame, but your cloud metadata is protecting you, the deployment, everything is easy, it's managed by them, it's HA. So all those were factors when we decided to go into Bumi. We did do a POC among others as well, but then the speed to market, less code framework, and also the roadmap, they'll add for them, right? That's very important for us. I'm investing in the technology. I want it to go for the next five years, 10 years. Are you walking with me in the technology? Are you making insights as we talked about today? I'm just paraphrasing it, but those are the things matter to us. So that our investment is protected. We don't end up with some debt, right? Like the monolith platforms that we have today. So those were key factors in moving forward with Dell Bumi, so. And so let's talk about some of the business outcomes that you mentioned with you, 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 spectrum of 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 date. So it's how to be proactive, right? It's a game, it's a data game these days. So the more data you have about the decision you can make, it's going to be differentiated in solving problems and being competitive as well. So 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 serve the data to people who need them. That's where the 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 give some analytics for scientists to see, hey, I got this data, this was the inference, and now we can introduce that integration to give them all the data that they need. What used to take, in my opinion, days and months to infer through these files and files of data, takes less than 10 minutes for people to know infer, okay. So dramatic speed improvements here. Wow, elaborate on that a little bit. What happens is, when you get this huge epidemiology data around the world, right, you got thousands and thousands of terabytes of data. Now, without proper computing and the resources and the modern platform, it is tough for you to crunch those data to come out with some analytics that your 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. So you want to solve big problems and you want to make sure the population benefits from that. So this kind of data gives you those inferences that people can research on. They say, hey, I'm going to focus on this area, it's very predominant in, let's say, African-Asian population is amongst about three billion, four billion people in the world. So let's focus on that disease, let's get some traction going on, and then 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. So 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 outcomes for them on R&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 far too 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 the change agent, in the change agent category. Morali, that was outstanding. Congratulations on what you've achieved so far and I'm sure I'm excited to hear next year where the business goes. We appreciate your time. Thanks a lot, Liza. Nice to talk to you guys too. Likewise, thank you. For John Furrier, I'm Lisa Martin. You're watching theCUBE from Boomi World 19.