SM: The example that I was giving you earlier along the same lines has exactly the same argument because these corporate rewards and recognition merchandise vendors find an efficient channel to sell through, and with repeat purchase patterns and that’s very attractive to them. SS: That’s exactly right. SM: What do you see in terms
Sramana: When you came into the market in 2008, what did you notice in the competitive landscape? Who were you seeing in deals? Jon Kondo: We saw the big guys in the space, although they did not take us seriously at first. We saw Oracle, SAP and IBM. Now, they take us a lot more
SM: Actually, TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) has set up a major Latin America operation. BT: They do. TCS probably is the Indian vendor that has the largest call center here in Latin America. They do have a strong presence in Brazil, and from Brazil, they support global clients. They won, a couple of years ago,
SM: How does the car industry see this evolution happening? CR: Well, today there’re a couple approaches. One is that the mobile phone application would work similar to the way that you’re controlling the address book and things like that on your phone. The app’s residing there, you’re just using the controls and speakers in
SM: Right. Where you are sitting, the specific value proposition that you deliver, just by virtue of doing that for many years now for your clients, you have already accumulated a lot of this data. My question was do you have the technologies to be able to analyze that data and draw these personalization inferences.
Sramana: What is the background and history of Host Analytics? Jon Kondo: Host Analytics was founded in 2000 by Jim Eberlin. He had the idea of rented software in corporate performance management. He bootstrapped the company for the first seven years. He waited for the marketplace to catch up to his vision. Once it did,
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