[relaxed guitar music]
[narrator] Today we live in a world
where our lofty predictions of the future have become normal.
It's normal for people to be connected to the web from wherever they are,
all the time.
It's normal for people to work from home, the office, and their mobile phones.
The cloud is no longer just a buzzword. It's a part of our everyday lives.
The game has changed.
- We're a global software company.
We started out of Australia in my apartment in Melbourne.
The company is now over 200 staff. We have over 500 partners,
across 90 countries, in 60 languages.
- So I took off, moved to Whistler and launched
what was originally Evogear.com, which is today Evo.com,
out of my apartment here in Wallingford, just down the street.
Back then it was just really tiny; we kind of did everything.
We'd buy the stuff, we'd clean the stuff. We'd ship it out of the garage.
- We're pretty much dedicated to being a local, regional brewery.
Don't really have ambitions to sell beer in Chicago, you know.
So in '95 we came over here to Ballard
and built this brewery, which is still, you know, by brewery standards,
is kind of a little brewery.
But it kinda feels like home. Ever since we got here, it's just like
"Ah, this is the brewery that we really wanted to be."
- A lot of the pain in growing, like in your infrastructure, is when things
aren't working seamlessly.
Working through those times and figuring out, okay, how are we gonna
improve the way these systems talk to each other
and whatnot. It's an ongoing topic, for sure, as you scale.
You're always having new challenges, when it comes to
integration of systems.
- It does seem like right now there's a certain amount of redundancy
that's just like, well, why would you enter this sale over here
and then come back over here and re-enter it over here?
- For our business, we're able to set up, you know, in London,
in China, in Seattle and Melbourne, with an infrastructure on Office 365 to connect
back to our head office, so they can manage the infrastructure.
- All of our guys have smartphones.
That has improved the communication quality and speed enormously.
- I mean, flexibility when it comes to being able to work remote[ly], is huge.
Right now I'm already using, you know, a whole number of different devices,
and it's not totally seamless at this point, but there's no question that
the integration of devices is critical.
- Our tagline for our business is "Workflow for everyone."
So we think, you know, any device, anytime, anywhere, is the play.
Cloud can give that to us now.
The mobility warrior is what we're chasing because people have powerful tools at home
and want them operating in their enterprise.
Our tools have to end up on those devices.
- If there were a cohesive database, and particularly if it was in the cloud,
where we did have all those sectors integrated, it would be great.
There would be a lot of time saved. [laughs]
- [narrator] Powerful enterprise software that was once only available to
the biggest companies is now available to the smallest.
It's the perfect storm of advancements in mobility, flexibility, productivity
and affordability.
And it's setting up the small- and medium- size business market with a massive
growth opportunity, making it clear that this is the place to be.
Be what's next. Microsoft.
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