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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Ten-X VP of Data Products, Sheridan Hitchens (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Why don’t we take the real estate constraint off and listen to what you have to say about the movement of Big Data and the industry trend in general. Sheridan Hitchens: This may sound controversial. I work in a technology function. The technology side of things is getting pretty good. The whole Hadoop
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Ten-X VP of Data Products, Sheridan Hitchens (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: What trends do you see in data usage in the real estate market? Sheridan Hitchens: It’s interesting. There’re a couple of things that stand out for me. People are increasingly aware that having good data is instrumental. For many people in many companies, buying a piece of real estate is a really big
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Ten-X VP of Data Products, Sheridan Hitchens (Part 1)
This discussion focuses on Big Data in the real estate industry. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself and Ten-X. Sheridan Hitchens: I’ve been in the industry for about 20 years. I started off my career with Procter & Gamble. I was in strategy consulting for a long while. For the last
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Ashish Sharma, Principal at Axtria (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: If you put yourself at a 30,000-foot level, what do you see? What are the open problems in the industry? What are the white spaces in the industry? Ashish Sharma: If I were to focus on these two industries, there is a strong need that is getting defined and driven by business. Businesses are now
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Ashish Sharma, Principal at Axtria (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: If you were to look at penetration of these kinds of sensor-driven Big Data applications, how many hospitals are adopting stuff like that? What is the market penetration? Ashish Sharma: I don’t have any tangible data that I can comment on. If I’m speaking at certain conferences, I run into people who are
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Ashish Sharma, Principal at Axtria (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Are you saying that your primary value add is managing the infrastructure of data processing? Ashish Sharma: Yes, but a lot more beyond infrastructure. There are a lot more data sources available than ever before. These are growing at an exponential rate especially for life sciences and financial companies. I’m using the term
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Ashish Sharma, Principal at Axtria (Part 1)
Ashish focuses on Big Data in Life Sciences. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Axtria. Ashish Sharma: Thanks for the opportunity. Axtria is a global Big Data analytics company. Our main focus is around the life sciences and financial services industries. In those two focus areas, we
Building a Big Data Venture: Hiro Yoshikawa, CEO of Treasure Data (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: For your core business, you go seek out customers in a direct selling model. The open-source conversion is not your core business? Hiro Yoshikawa: Correct. This is one of the interesting challenges that we are facing right now. Some investors called us open-source business 2.0. Historically, the open-source commercialization companies have a very typical
