Sramana Mitra: I think the synthesis of everything is that if you play in the platform layer, it is better that you work with application vendors who build on top of your platform and actually go and sell those applications. Those could range from energy trading to agricultural forecasting to financial services. But you need
Sramana Mitra: That is a pointer to a lot of entrepreneurs. That is an area that needs work. The other thing that is interesting, specifically in this topic, is that you offer this technology, which is kind of Ferrari-level technology in analytics. Inside organizations, there aren’t trained business analysts who can really take advantage of
Sramana Mitra: One thing that excites me about big data is the use of learning technologies. Is that part of your equation? Michelle Chambers: Yes, machine learning is part of the equation, and typically people are considering a lot more factors in their analyses. What is exciting about it is not how the data is
Sramana Mitra: Let’s do a few interesting use cases of how your customers are using you. You may choose from whichever application area you want. Dave Rich: I will talk about a large credit card processor. They are using our platform to do real-time scoring in a much more cost-effective way. As I mentioned earlier,
Sramana Mitra: Where do you sit from a competitive point of view? Dave Rich: We think there are three major areas of interest where we are typically engaged by a customer. It is either because they already have exposure to the open source community version – they have it in research labs or on their
Michelle Chambers: I would jump in and say that we are positioned as an enterprise analytics platform for a new generation. That means we have a smarter, faster, bigger and easier platform to use. That merely ties back to the convergence that Dave was talking about, which the original founders saw. There was this convergence
Dave Rich is the president and chief executive officer of Revolution Analytics, a leading company in open source big data advanced analytics. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Dave has more than 28 years of analytics experience at companies such as as Accenture. In this interview Dave is joined by Michele Chambers, chief strategy