Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Adriaan Van Wyk, CEO of K2 (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What is the segmentation? When you are looking for customers, where are you looking? Adriaan van Wyck: That is a very challenging question for us to answer right now. If you think about what I just said, it applies to almost every organization out there. It is a discipline we have to think

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Adriaan Van Wyk, CEO of K2 (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Does that position you in the integration layer? Adriaan van Wyck: It positions us in the layer right on top of the integration layer. If you think about the integration layer as being the concrete floors within a building, we are the hardwood floors that sit right on top of it.

Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Adriaan Van Wyk, CEO of K2 (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: You said Kimberly-Clark has developed 400 applications in a year on top of your big data platform. Talk to us about what the platform consists of, what data sources they are drawing from and what the types of applications are. Adriaan van Wyck: Let’s talk about the role we play within the concept

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Adriaan Van Wyk, CEO of K2 (Part 1)

Adriaan van Wyk is the chief executive officer of K2, a company that helps business customers make sense of big data analytics in order to make business decisions. The company started off in South Africa and through the years managed to create a global footprint with partners in Europe, the U.S., and Asia. In this

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Chris Carter, CEO of Approyo (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: You became one of the major SAP Hana developers. You are part of the SAP Startup Focus program. Now you have core expertise in doing facility management and energy optimization for hospitals. When you go back to the SAP Startup Focus program, are they able to match you up with all the hospital

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Chris Carter, CEO of Approyo (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: How would that be followed through? Let’s say I am in the store, and I am looking for something that the store knows because of all the implementation you have done, integrating the POS System. How is that last mile bridged? Who is approaching me? Is there floor staff who gets a notification

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Chris Carter, CEO of Approyo (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Can you talk about what kind of heuristics you are using in the wealth management scenario? Chris Carter: When you look at wealth management, you have structured and unstructured data. You have all those nice Excel spreadsheets, documents, and plenty of data points about what you are doing when it comes to your

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Chris Carter, CEO of Approyo (Part 3)

Chris Carter: We are very fortunate to have very strong staff members who have focused on that within not only the SAP or big data ecosystem, but on the healthcare system. They know how to benchmark certain statistics. I didn’t even know the linen side or the cafeteria side to the story. They brought that

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