Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Paul Zolfaghari, President of MicroStrategy (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: That’s the modus operandi from the point of view of your large customers. Do you have customers who are independent software vendors who are also developing on top of your analytics platform, and are providing the business logic for maybe a particular vertical and then selling?

Thursday, May 15 – 215th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 215th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, May 15, 2014, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and she’ll answer any

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214th Roundtable Recording On May 8, 2014

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Paul Zolfaghari, President of MicroStrategy (Part 3)

Paul Zolfaghari: For instance, yesterday I met one of our customers Netflix, which is actually running MicroStrategy against a very substantial instance of data that actually resides in AWS. Netflix is very public about this. It’s a great example for us and one that we’re very proud of. Netflix is a deep analytics company. It’s

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Paul Zolfaghari, President of MicroStrategy (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Cloud is a very large practice for us. One of the big trends driving both cloud and mobile, and to some extend Big Data, are these platforms. There are lots of platforms now available as a service that you can build upon. We’re seeing that as a major phenomenon because you no longer

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Paul Zolfaghari, President of MicroStrategy (Part 1)

This interview has a very interesting discussion on the future of user interfaces that interact with data. Read on! Sramana Mitra: Paul, let’s start with introducing our audience to you as well as to MicroStrategy. Paul Zolfaghari: I’m Paul Zolfaghari. I’m the president of MicroStrategy. We’re an enterprise software company that’s been in existence for

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May 15 – 215th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 215th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, May 15, 2014, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and she’ll answer any

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Roundtable Recap: May 8 – Discussion On UltraLight Startups

During this week’s roundtable, we had three strategy discussions, as well as a general discussion on the ultra-light startups trend. Before we started the slide presentation, Pinky Thakkar called in to get some input on her brand strategy vis-à-vis product naming. She has several products that have received coverage as well as awards. However, she

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