I was invited to present on the topic “Financial Services in the Cloud” at BrightTalk’s Data Management and Analytics in Financial Services Summit held July 16^th to 18^th, 2019. I immediately started to reflect on the past decade and how fortunate I've been to be involved in a large number of data rich projects, ones that have required lots of diverse considerations as to how information is handled. These have traditionally always been very manual and time-consuming, inevitably expensive processes. From a technologist’s point of view, anything manual is worrying, prone to error and in the end, make IT look bad.