Thought Leaders in Big Data: Steve Bryan, CEO of Vigillo (Part 5)

Steve Bryan: There’re a lot of mergers and acquisitions in the space. If a company merges with another, then they have half of one company’s telematics technology and half their fleet has the other. Now they’ve got two different companies doing their data analytics on half the fleet. That’s where we sit in the middle and

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Steve Bryan, CEO of Vigillo (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: How big is your business? Steve Bryan: We are in the range of about $5 to $6 million a year. Sramana Mitra: How big is the TAM for the business?

Thought Leaders in Big Data: Steve Bryan, CEO of Vigillo (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Can we do some use cases and illustrate specifically how this all plays out? Steve Bryan: Apart from the legal and regulatory aspects, we also specialize in fuel management. Consider this: the industry covers 400 billion miles a year, which is equivalent to over 4,000 trips to the sun. Anything that they can do to wring

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Steve Bryan, CEO of Vigillo (Part 2)

Steve Bryan: The second way is through inspection stations. In addition to being weighed, the trucks are also subjected to inspections by similarly-trained law enforcement people. Those are the two modes of interaction that trucking companies have with law enforcement. They open up their book and there are about 3,000 different violations that could be written on

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Steve Bryan, CEO of Vigillo (Part 1)

I am a big fan of niche Big Data applications. Here’s one focused on the trucking industry! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with some introduction about yourself as well as Vigillo. Steve Bryan: The Latin word vigillo means vigilant. That is the backbone of what we do for our customers. We are just past our seventh

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Charlie Lougheed, Co-Founder and President of Explorys (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: How do you see that playing out? Are you saying that physicians around the world start sharing case studies on how they have treated certain cases and what results they have gotten in some sort of a central exchange? Then the system does analysis and recommends specific instances. Is that what you’re saying?

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Charlie Lougheed, Co-Founder and President of Explorys (Part 4)

Charlie Lougheed: There’s a mix of different vendors in the space. There are those that are pure play technology vendors—the IBMs and the Oracles of the world that often purchase technology and then configure and deploy it to run, oftentimes, behind the firewalls within these organizations. Another component from the competitor standpoint is actually some of the payers

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Charlie Lougheed, Co-Founder and President of Explorys (Part 3)

Charlie Lougheed: As these healthcare organizations look to those who pay for the care, which are either the private insurers or Medicare, you see a move towards value-based care. Rather than paying for all the associated services with that patient’s admission into the hospital, you instead get a flat rate for that patient to take

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