Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge - Vegas Edition

Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (English: The Brave-Hearted Will Take Away the Bride) is a Bollywood blockbuster, which is celebrating 20 years anniversary this year (video). Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge was one of the only three Hindi films in the reference book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die and one of the most successful films of all time in India. It is the longest-running film in the history of Indian cinema. Like many others, it is my all-time favorite Bollywood movie. It disrupted the industry to accomplish this astounding success. According to Scott Jordan the film's popularity lies in its unique ability to effectively convey two opposing themes appealing to different portions of society at the same time. He said, "It argues that we should follow our hearts and chase happiness wherever it leads, regardless of the obstacles in our paths, while simultaneously suggesting we should respect the ways of our elders, particularly our parents, and do nothing that challenges their will". Another disruption was caused by Raj Malhotra (Shah Rukh Khan) who despite all the odds did not give up, decided to fight, disrupted the planned wedding of Simran Singh (Kajol) and eventually the brave-hearted took away his bride with pride and honor.

Switching gears, our history books boast of fearsome commanders who executed the no-exit strategy to guarantee victory. Taric el Tuerto, oth-er-wise known as Tariq ibn Ziyad, the Muslim gen-eral who con-quered His-pania in 711, burned his boats when fight-ing the Spaniards. It was a deci-sion that should have back-fired, as Tariq’s army was outnumbered 5:1. Remark-ably though, the com-mand to burn the boats had an opposite effect on his men because now, they were left with only 2 choices — die, or fight and make the history, which they actually did.

It was true for Tariq ibn Ziyad and it is true for business today. Today’s choice is Digital or Die and there is only one path moving forward. A study from the John M. Olin School of Business at Washington University estimates that 40 percent of today's Fortune 500 companies on the S&P 500 will no longer exist in 10 years. Companies that do not embark on a digital transformation journey would cease to exist.

According to Studio X Online we are at the beginning of a paradigm shift from institutions to networks. What Tesla, Netflix and Google have in common? What can we learn from the business models of Uber, Alibaba, Airbnb and Facebook? The old powers that are institutional are being replaced by a new power that is network-based, which extends to philanthropy and altruism. According to this study, ten years ago we had 500 million internet connected devices. Today there are about 8 billion. By 2020 there will be 50 billion and a decade later we’ll have a trillion internet-connected devices as we literally information-enable every aspect of the world in the Internet of Things. The internet will becomes the world’s nervous system, with our mobile devices serving as edge points and nodes on that network. Digital disruption is inevitable. If I put myself in the shoes of Imran Khan, I would have said, “Tabdeeli aa nahi rahi, tabdeeli aa gayi hai” (English: Change is not happening, change is already there).

We at OpenText are focused on making this world better way to work through the use of digital technology. This week, we will be revealing our success recipe during the Enterprise World. Come and join us at the legendary MGM Grand in Las Vegas. If you cannot make to Vegas, keep watching this post as I will be posting important announcements and highlights live from Vegas.

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Enterprise World Highlights: Several important announcements were made during the event. Personally, I found "better way to work" theme resonating with our customers. Information-driven application design ( commonly known as Entity Modeling ) in Process Suite, responsive HTML5 presentation layer for our flagship ECM offering, new UI for on-demand messaging made a lot of buzz. Analytics-as-a-Service (AaaS), Big data analytics in the cloud, analytics in all suites including deep integrations with Content, Process and Experience Suites are going to be the key adoption drivers of the Suite 16 and Cloud 16 releases. Customers appreciated how far we have come along as a cloud company in 12 months since the announcement in the Enterprise World 2014. Flexible deployment options ( on-premise, cloud, hybrid ), flexible pricing models ( perpetual, subscription ) are key accomplishments to make this cloud dream a reality. I was reminded by several customers that deeper integration among our product suites is the key to deliver better engagement, productivity, insight, innovation and control. They expect OpenText to deliver complete end-to-end applications whether these are capture to archive, create to consume, procure to pay, or incident to resolution. Not only our customers can procure all these applications from one vendor but they can also benefit from the speed and agility to deliver such solutions. We received many thumbs up for the out-of-the-box integrations of Process Suite with our industry leading solutions for content management, customer communications, document capture, and rich media management. This is the way to go to complete our EIM vision.

Watch out Enterprise World 2015 Highlights here as a picturesque blog. A picture is worth a thousand words, hence I am letting pictures to do all the talk.