Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Dale Skeen, CTO of Vitria (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Now, let’s take some use cases and work through three or four customers whose cases you have permission to discuss. You may choose which best project your capabilities. The objective is to give our readers a feel of what is happening in your world of big data.

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Sramana: I like your desire to dive deep into a segmented market. That is a core philosophy of the 1M/1M incubator. It pays to focus on a narrow, precisely defined segment. We have case study after case study in which entrepreneurs have succeeded by doing that. Even though it is tried and true, I find

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Dale Skeen, CTO of Vitria (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: When you talk about applications of big data in business process optimization or business process management, what kinds of business processes are you choosing to get involved in? Dale Skeen: We call this [approach] operational intelligence. Some of the places where you might want to apply operational intelligence at the business process level

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Leading Michigan’s Emergence as a Tech Startup Hub: Billhighway CEO Vince Thomas (Part 6)

Sramana: You also mentioned that you oursourced certain tasks as part of your strategy to scale the business. Could you give me an example of that? Vince Thomas: We do outsource certain capabilities. We created an engine that can produce hundreds of thousands of invoices per day from our system. Fulfilling those invoices, which includes

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Dale Skeen, CTO of Vitria (Part 1)

Dale Skeen is CTO and co-founder of Vitria Technology Inc. He has a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and was chief scientist for TIBCO Software prior to founding Vitria. Today, Dale is considered by many of his colleagues in the industry as the pioneer in real-time business process analysis. In this interview he

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