Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Chris Carter, CEO of Approyo (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: It sounds like this is a use case that is something you could do for many other verticals because this includes energy costs savings, for example, which most companies with facilities tend to need. Chris Carter: That is correct. We have been able to take that specific use case and move it to

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Built to Enjoy in Utah: Jana Francis, Founder, Steals.com (Part 4)

Sramana: You spent five months working a full-time job and working your starup business in parallel. What were you able to accomplish in those five months? Jana: Since our deals start at 9 a.m., I would be at my desk job at work. I would take a break at work and make sure every deal

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with JR Reagan, Federal Chief Innovation Officer at Deloitte Services (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What do you think is the state of the union vis-à-vis visualization technologies? I heard from several people that there are gaps in visualization technologies. You are saying you are primarily using open source technologies, and you have developed your own internal framework. Talk about what is driving those choices and what you

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Sramana: What is the business model? Jana: The business model itself is extremely demanding. The name of the company is Steals.com, and we have four niche daily deal websites that cater to women. The first one I started is BabySTEALS.com. We launch one new steal every 12 hours at 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. Pacific

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Chris Carter, CEO of Approyo (Part 1)

Chris Carter is the chief executive officer of Approyo, a company specializing in big data analytics. He is also member of the SAP Startup Focus Program, and a premium member of the 1M/1M program. In this interview Chris talks about Approyo’s view on big data and presents several use cases from various industry verticals, specifying

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with JR Reagan, Federal Chief Innovation Officer at Deloitte Services (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Your lab is now basically one that specializes in data visualization across different verticals. JR Reagan: Yes. With innovation, we started getting called in to being more than just analytics. Now we are asked to come up with the next idea around the use of certain technologies in different ways – 3-D printing,

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Built to Enjoy in Utah: Jana Francis, Founder, Steals.com (Part 2)

Sramana: Is that what drove you to become an entrepreneur? Jana: As I drove away, I realized that I was a capable, smart girl who had been through harder things in life. I was perfectly capable of coming up with something that I would be able to do from home and make enough of an

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with JR Reagan, Federal Chief Innovation Officer at Deloitte Services (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s take use cases of real customer problems and how you are using large-scale visualization to add value to those problems and generate solutions. JR Reagan: One unique problem we thought was interesting comes from one of the large global retailers. Around the time of Hurricane Irene [in August 2011] they called us

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