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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Robert Youngjohns, SVP and GM at HP Autonomy (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: I would like you to take off the HP hat and wear more of an industry thought leader hat. Give me some pointers to where you see open problems. Robert Youngjohns: I think the issue of unstructured data is one of the big problems facing the industry. It is really hard science to
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Robert Youngjohns, SVP and GM at HP Autonomy (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: What is the state of the union on video analysis? Robert Youngjohns: It is developing very quickly, and we have very powerful tools. It started way back with something as simple as number plate recognition, which is now very established. We have a demo app where we show people where we are taking
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Robert Youngjohns, SVP and GM at HP Autonomy (Part 1)
Robert Youngjohns is the senior vice president and general manager of HP Autonomy. Simply put, Autonomy helps organizations understand the meaning of information by applying big data technologies. Robert previously worked at Microsoft and has more than 30 years of experience in the technology industry. In this interview, Robert talks about Autonomy’s role within HP
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Bob Tennant, CEO of Recommind (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: You had a chance to understand the requirements of that market by catering to the legal industry, and then you went to the larger IT departments with the use case of catering to their legal issues. Bob Tennant: Exactly. In order to understand how your customer needs to evolve, I would suggest to
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Bob Tennant, CEO of Recommind (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: That is interesting. Are there any other major use cases, or are those more or less representative of how you gain accounts? Bob Tennant: There are others on the license side of our business, also in customer experience optimization. There you basically pull together information from a wide variety of repositories, because often
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Bob Tennant, CEO of Recommind (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Could we talk about a few more pain points? Bob Tennant: We do something called e-discovery, where in the process of responding to a government regulatory request or litigation, you are obligated to provide all pertinent information to that request. To do that, you need to find and identify, then analyze, what information
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Bob Tennant, CEO of Recommind (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: So you built a platform and you let the customers figure out what use case they want to apply it to? Bob Tennant: No. Our experience in the past has been that it is very difficult to sell a platform. It is very hard to do if you are carrying a big company’s
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Bob Tennant, CEO of Recommind (Part 1)
Bob Tennant is the chief executive officer at Recommind, a lead provider of e-discovery, enterprise search and automatic categorization software. Bob has degrees from the University of Victoria, the University of California at Berkeley, and Columbia University. He has many years of experience in the IT business, having worked for Swiftsure Capital and Sun Microsystems,
