--- title: "We live in an intelligence economy - illuminate 2019 recap" page_name: "We Live in an Intelligence Economy – Illuminate 2019 recap" type: "blog" slug: "illuminate2019-recap" published_at: "2019-10-02" modified_at: "2025-05-09" url: "https://www.sumologic.com/blog/illuminate2019-recap" canonical: "https://www.sumologic.com/blog/illuminate2019-recap" markdown_url: "https://www.sumologic.com/blog/illuminate2019-recap.md" lang: "en" excerpt: "What a pleasure it was to see many of our customers at our Illuminate user conference, September 11-12. We had record attendance from customers, influencers, and partners." taxonomy_blog_category: - "DevOps & IT Operations" - "SecOps & Security" --- [ All blogs ](https://www.sumologic.com/blog "blog")[DevOps & IT Operations](https://www.sumologic.com/blog/devops-it-operations), [SecOps & Security](https://www.sumologic.com/blog/secops-security) # We Live in an Intelligence Economy – Illuminate 2019 recap [Ramin Sayar](#blog-author-block-257) October 2, 2019 1 min read [DevOps & IT Operations](https://www.sumologic.com/blog/devops-it-operations), [SecOps & Security](https://www.sumologic.com/blog/secops-security) ##### Table of contents What a pleasure it was to see many of our customers at our Illuminate user conference, September 11-12. We had record attendance from customers, influencers, and partners. Our time was packed with keynotes, customer presentations (35 customer breakout sessions), certifications, sharing best practices, and time networking and having fun together. The entire experience solidified for me that the category we’re building with our customers and partners — Continuous Intelligence — is now firmly entrenched. There’s no going back – not if you want to thrive in what is fast becoming a new economy for all of us — The Intelligence Economy. The Intelligence Economy represents a redefinition of value and competitive advantage coming from the transition we’re making together to close the intelligence gaps created by old, enterprise analytics tools and software business models. As a community, we’re choosing a different approach, the adoption of a Continuous Intelligence platform, because it mirrors the operational and economic models of cloud computing and modern applications to provide the insights you need across diverse use cases from a single, cloud-native platform. In my keynote (video below), I shared five major challenges of this continuous world we live in: 1) the pressure to speed software releases; 2) the desire for greater choice in the technologies and we use and technology/solution providers; 3) the constant need to tame the data tsunami; 4) the frustration of being shackled by old pricing and packaging models; and 5) the realization that innovation depends on frictionless, cross-functional collaboration. These challenges represent intelligence gaps that need to be addressed, which we’re doing through the industry’s first and only Continuous Intelligence Platform. Check it out, along with some big announcements we made to help our customers continue to close intelligence gaps, including: ### Article Tags - [DevOps & IT Operations](https://www.sumologic.com/blog/devops-it-operations) - [SecOps & Security](https://www.sumologic.com/blog/secops-security) Ramin Sayar President & CEO As CEO, Ramin brings 20 years of industry experience as a strategic and operating leader of both small and large organizations, and has a strong track record of developing innovative products in both emerging and mature markets. Ramin joined Sumo Logic from VMware where he formulated the strategy for and built the industry’s leading private cloud management products. The Cloud Management Business Unit became the fastest growing business within VMware, with nearly $1 billion in revenue during his nearly five-year tenure. Previously, Ramin held executive roles at leading enterprises, including Vice President of Products and Strategy at HP Software, Senior Director of Products at Mercury Software, Director of Products and Solutions at TIBCO, Product Line Marketing Manager at iPlanet Software, and Product Line Marketing Manager at Netscape. He also serves on the technology and executive boards of various startup companies. Ramin holds an MBA from San Jose State University and B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara. 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