Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Steve Shine, CEO of Actian (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: And these are people who are using online advertising? Steve Shine: They are all using online advertising. They are not monetizing from membership fees.

Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Steve Shine, CEO of Actian (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: That is a really great use case. Steve Shine: We have a number of exciting use cases where the gaming companies are coming to us. A small or medium business cannot afford the legacy architecture to be able to build up that platform to deal with that much data. It must be on

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Steve Shine, CEO of Actian (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: So your core differentiation is to be able to handle very large volume data at very low latencies and power the business analytics layer on top? Steve Shine: We enable the business analytics like the BI tools, the analytic frameworks, or analytics applications. We do this all the way, connecting from the original

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Steve Shine, CEO of Actian (Part 2)

Steve Shine: People aren’t tapping into just any ERP system. They are tapping into applications and new forms of data sources that are either machine generated or cloud generated, social media, mobile and streams of data that are on an entirely different scale from anything that legacy technologies can deal with. Frankly, this is why

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Steve Shine, CEO of Actian (Part 1)

Steve Shine is the chief executive officer of Actian, which provides a reliable platform for customers to meet their real-time big data analytics needs. Steve studied at the University of Manchester and has more than 17 years of experience in the software industry. In this interview he talks about Actian and its unique value proposition,

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