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