Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: David Guthrie, CTO of PGi (Part 3)

SM: I understand the motivation. I’m asking more for a state of the union in that market. Since you’re an insider in that marketplace, it sounds like one of your strategies is to sell through these telecom providers. DG: Yes. It’s not our only strategy, but we believe it’s a great opportunity for the reasons

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: David Guthrie, CTO of PGi (Part 2)

SM: Point taken. But the products in the market also have very large user bases. DG: Sure. So, did other wireless phones that you know about before the iPhone came out, before the Droid came out with their OSes that changed the way you interact with phones. But there were other phones like Samsung and

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: David Guthrie, CTO of PGi (Part 1)

Remote workforces continue to grow and telecommuting becomes more commonplace every day as modern technologies like Web conferencing and video chats make it easier for people from all over the world to collaborate on projects or simply work from home. These types of conveniences save money for everyone, and companies like PGi strive to make

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Steve Singh, CEO of Concur (Part 5)

SM: Interesting vision. Besides these kinds of convergences that you’re predicting, the mobile phone, the wallet and the security key, where else do you point young entrepreneurs or early stage entrepreneurs to look for opportunities? SS: I think the other thing that’s critical is to say, hey, what business problems can I solve, on a

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Steve Singh, CEO of Concur (Part 4)

SM: The example that I was giving you earlier along the same lines has exactly the same argument because these corporate rewards and recognition merchandise vendors find an efficient channel to sell through, and with repeat purchase patterns and that’s very attractive to them. SS: That’s exactly right. SM: What do you see in terms

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Steve Singh, CEO of Concur (Part 3)

SM: Right. Where you are sitting, the specific value proposition that you deliver, just by virtue of doing that for many years now for your clients, you have already accumulated a lot of this data. My question was do you have the technologies to be able to analyze that data and draw these personalization inferences.

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Roundtable Recap: May 10 – BlueSnap-Elance Contest Applications Deadline This Weekend

Today’s roundtable started with a reminder of a set of contests on which we are collaborating with corporate partners. A&N Media is offering a series of 1M/1M scholarships to entrepreneurs in Britain to stimulate entrepreneurship in the United Kingdom. With a reach into 130 million consumers, their channel will offer a significant go-to-market opportunity for

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126th Roundtable Recording On May 10

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here: