Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Eric Langshur, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of AVIA (Part 1)

A broad discussion on trends in healthcare. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by having you introduce yourself as well as AVIA. Eric Langshur: I am the co-founder and Executive Chairman of AVIA. AVIA is a US-based enterprise. We are a network of health systems that have banded together to celebrate the age of transformation of the

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Florian Winterstein, CEO of Jedox (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: I want to hear your perspective on what I’m thinking. One trend that I am picking up on the market is Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). We have a lot of SaaS companies. Some of them are starting to build a platform as a service. They are opening up their platform to integrations and APIs to

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Berkeley College Dean of Online Learning Joseph Scuralli (Part 2)

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Big Idea 2021: SaaS Companies Will Create 10 Million Jobs

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Thursday, December 10 – 512th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 512th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, December 10, 2020, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/5 p.m. CET/9:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea. You’ll receive straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and answers to any of your

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According to a recent report, the global enterprise cyber security market size is estimated to grow 7% annually over the next few years to become a $177.5 billion industry. The industry was pegged at $107.8 billion last year. Security players like Palo Alto Networks (NYSE:PANW) and Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) are seeing significant growth in their

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Florian Winterstein, CEO of Jedox (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: My next question is double-clicking down to your FP&A use cases. You started off talking about data lakes and leveraging data more aggressively. Could you talk about the technology infrastructure that you are working with? What ERP systems are you drawing from or interfacing with? What does the integration layer look like? Are

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