It is with great pleasure that we welcome SAP Startup Focus entrepreneurs to the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) program. This new partnership will offer extensive incubation support to entrepreneurs developing products and services on the SAP HANA platform. We are launching this effort by inviting a first set of entrepreneurs working with HANA through the SAP Startup Focus
Sramana: What does your ecosystem look like? Who are some of the other players in this market? Eran Yaniv: The other players are partners that can resell and provide partners on top of our platform. That can include companies like Accenture and the other major players in this market. There are a lot of those
Sramana Mitra: Are you positioned today as a fraud detection company, or do you have a different, broader positioning? Patrick Taylor: Much broader than that. We are a continuous analysis company. Our software can operate on an ongoing basis. I need to be looking for this every day, and the sooner I find the problem,
Sramana: When it comes to the device platform, where do you see the maximum activity? Does it roughly correlate with the market share of the operating systems? Eran Yaniv: I don’t think there are any surprises. It correlates very nicely with the operating systems. As a specific platform, the iPhone 5 is a highly utilized
Crowdsourcing is a growing trend in the tech startup industry, and one that has the potential to address pressing needs in various markets. In particular, crowdsourcing of workforces is seeing tremendous uptick. At 1M/1M we’ve encountered several startups that are applying the model on different problem domains related to hiring and staffing.
Patrick Taylor is the chief executive officer of Oversight Systems, a Continuous Transaction Analysis platform for big data that helps businesses make smarter decisions. In this interview Patrick talks about how Oversight Systems’ platform is used to detect fraud and internal security flaws. Furthermore, he describes the platform’s capability of resolving problems and finding new
Sramana: How has your company developed over time? Since you evolved into an enterprise product, how has your deal size changed? Eran Yaniv: I can give you an example. There is a company on the retail side that started with us using a $500 a month subscription. When we looked at their usage, we saw
Sramana Mitra: How does a new small company entering in this system break through? We are seeing a huge amount of usage of these services exchanges – Elance, oDesk, etc. – and one thing we always hear from small companies is when they start transacting and selling on those exchanges, it takes them a long