Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Tim Minahan, Network Strategy VP for Ariba (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Talk about that a little bit. Our community is full of small companies. If they want to try out the Ariba network, what would you advise them to do? Tim Minahan: I would invite them to go and get discovered with a service on the network we call Ariba Discovery. It is at

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Tim Minahan, Network Strategy VP for Ariba (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: That is interesting. That brings me to the question about startups. Of the one million companies transacting on your system, what is the distribution? How many are large companies, how many are mid-sized companies, and how many are small companies? Tim Minahan: Demographics would certainly tell you that the large majority of them

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Tim Minahan, Network Strategy SVP for Ariba (Part 1)

Tim Minahan is senior vice president of network strategy and global marketing for Ariba, host of the largest business network on the planet. Tim has more than 20 years of experience in enterprise technology research and marketing. In this interview, Tim gives us insights into how Ariba helps businesses of all sizes connect with each

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Tim Minahan, Network Strategy VP for Ariba (Part 2)

Srmana Mitra: I would like to do three or four interesting use cases of how your buyers and sellers are leveraging that data or how you are prompting them to leverage that data. Tim Minahan: If you consider your personal life, you have heard a bit about the social graph, which maps not only your

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Outsourcing: Fabio Rosati, CEO of Elance (Part 2)

SM: How much was each of these enterprises paying you? FR: It ranged from hundreds of thousands a year to millions of dollars a year. SM: So, typical enterprise contracts?

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark Settle, CIO Of BMC (Part 4)

Mark and Sramana discuss Standardization, Pricing Models, License management in Clouds

The 1M1M Deal Radar 2010: Coupa ,San Mateo, California

Coupa is an e-procurement and spending management provider with a mission to build “procurement for the masses” through its SaaS solution. It says that existing solutions were developed to support a model characterized by scarcity of information, mandates from management, and a centralized bureaucracy that placed buyers in each business unit to purchase on behalf

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Pioneering SaaS In Business Process Optimization: Ariba’s Kevin Costello (Part 7)

SM: What are the plans for 2010 and beyond, now that the licensed-software-to-SaaS transformation is complete? KC: Every other SaaS company out there has satisfied an existing business process. We are out to create an entirely new way of doing business.