Thought Leaders in Big Data: Sanjay Vyas, CEO of Diyotta (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Can you talk about a few use cases? I would like to do three use cases. Double-click down on what exactly you are doing. Sanjay Vyas: Let’s take the first use case as customer churn, which is a well-identified problem in the telecom industry. When you are a large telecom, you are trying

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Sanjay Vyas, CEO of Diyotta (Part 1)

More discussion on the integration sphere of Big Data. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as Diyotta. Sanjay Vyas: I should probably call myself not just an entrepreneur but more as a data entrepreneur. Right from the start of my career, I have been involved in building data ecosystems

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Incorta CEO Osama Elkady (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Can you talk about a few open problems that you would like entrepreneurs out there to come and build on top of your platform? It could be industry sector specific. It could be functional. Just name a few solutions where you’re looking for such partners.  Osama Elkady: A few things come to my

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Incorta CEO Osama Elkady (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: All the technology is your technology?  Osama Elkady: Yes. You don’t have to assemble five different technologies and transfer data between them. It’s one integrated platform where they have unlimited storage and power, especially for running on the cloud. Sramana Mitra: Since you’re working on so many use cases across so many different

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Incorta CEO Osama Elkady (Part 1)

Terrific PaaS strategy! Osama explains a bunch of use cases that are opportunities for entrepreneurs to build new companies. All are drawn from their customers. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by having you introduce yourself as well as Incorta.

A Serial “Data” Entrepreneur’s Journey: Bassel Ojjeh, CEO of LigaData (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What year did this restructuring happen? Bassel Ojjeh: This was in 2014.  Sramana Mitra: LigaData really comes together in 2014. What happens next? Bassel Ojjeh: My biggest focus continues to be profitability. Last year, I was reading something when it struck me, “You want the freedom to innovate and you need to be

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A Serial “Data” Entrepreneur’s Journey: Bassel Ojjeh, CEO of LigaData (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What happens next? Bassel Ojjeh: We got our first few customers. We wanted to counter what the software industry is used to. We went open source. The goal was ubiquity. What we found out fairly quickly is, if you’re selling to traditional companies, they’re not used to buying open source software. It became

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A Serial “Data” Entrepreneur’s Journey: Bassel Ojjeh, CEO of LigaData (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Who were buying at this point when you were doing this company in the early 2000s? Bassel Ojjeh: I left Yahoo in 2009 and started what I just mentioned to you. That was from 2009 to 2010 onwards. Financial industry, banking, and mobile operators were buying at this point.