Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Dale Skeen, CTO of Vitria (Part 7)

Dale Skeen: I agree. You have these areas of capability, and in each one you are finding increasing refinement of the domain knowledge. Offering [our product] as an SaaS offering makes sense because you are dealing with smaller businesses that typically have less IT capability. The SaaS mode is typically the least costly way for

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Dale Skeen, CTO of Vitria (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: What is the size of your market at present, and what segments do you go after? It is a very interesting analogy to cater to that segment. It could be products and services. I just did a story with an HR services provider. They specialize in recruitment technology: job posting and recruiting technology

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