Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Interview with Skip Smith, COO of Confluence (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Do they belong to the Boston group? Skip Smith: No. I can’t say where they are based, but it is west of the Mississippi. SM: Tell me more about this Boston pocket of entrepreneurs.

187th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 187th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, September 12, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.

187th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 187th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, September 12, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Interview with Skip Smith, COO of Confluence (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: And they don’t have mature markets and trading platforms. Skip Smith: And the data is kept in spreadsheets. There is no enterprise system that is housing this data. You have all these sources of manually created data, which we know has errors in it, and it gets aggregated into the central source. I

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Interview with Skip Smith, COO of Confluence (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: And your point is that with the cloud delivery model, the smaller fund managers are able to comply and keep up with these regulatory needs by using a service like yours to be able to do this at scale? Skip Smith: Exactly. It levels the playing field. To your point earlier about other

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186th Roundtable Recording On September 5, 2013

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Interview with Skip Smith, COO of Confluence (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: So the fund managers actually make the investment decisions and all the fundamental work, but the administrative work is handled by these global service providers, and you provide these service providers with their data management needs. SS: That is exactly right. There are large self-administrators – very large asset managers who choose to

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Thursday, September 12 – 187th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 187th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, September 12, 2013, 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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