Microsoft’s Merill Fernando on identity modernization success

[MUSIC PLAYING] So the goals primarily is, cost is one of the biggest factors. They save a lot of money getting rid of all these legacy apps and whole teams having to maintain them as they move to more SaaS-based applications, which cost less to run in the long run. And it's easy to move off those apps as well. So cost is a big one. Security is the other biggest one. As we've heard in the conference, there are lots of ways that attackers can get in when things are all on prem and legacy. And if you modernize them to the cloud, gives you a lot better visibility from a security perspective and so on. So cost and security, it's a win-win for both sides of it, which is why a lot of organizations are looking to modernize as well as they go through this process. [MUSIC PLAYING] A success is where you've done the migration of apps and identities and devices and modernized them with very little impact to the business. And for me, that is a very successful one, where the IT team does all of the heavy lifting behind the scenes, and users don't even notice a blimp, except for maybe the Sign In page looks different for them. But that is the most successful one, where there is no business disruption, because a lot of the tech and the work has been done by SMEs and all the folks behind the scenes to make it as seamless as possible to users. [MUSIC PLAYING]