Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Adriaan Van Wyk, CEO of K2 (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: That is a great story. It says a lot about Cameron’s interest in funding you, and also that they really were a value-added firm. Adriaan van Wyck: It has been fascinating. It is something that is not typical for VCs – sometimes they have to get out funds, there is pressure, you have

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Adriaan Van Wyk, CEO of K2 (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: The way your customer map has developed so far, how does that distribute among large customers, mid-sized customers and small customers? Adriaan van Wyck: There is a fascinating trend there. A 100- to 150-employee organization is where we become relevant. We have smaller organizations that use our software as well. In terms of

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Adriaan Van Wyk, CEO of K2 (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Did you raise any financing in the early phase of your company? Adriaan van Wyck: When we started to become successful in Asia and in the U.S. – Merrill Lynch and Intel were early customers – the company was growing at a pace the three individuals couldn’t keep up with. We took some

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Adriaan Van Wyk, CEO of K2 (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What is the segmentation? When you are looking for customers, where are you looking? Adriaan van Wyck: That is a very challenging question for us to answer right now. If you think about what I just said, it applies to almost every organization out there. It is a discipline we have to think

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Adriaan Van Wyk, CEO of K2 (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Does that position you in the integration layer? Adriaan van Wyck: It positions us in the layer right on top of the integration layer. If you think about the integration layer as being the concrete floors within a building, we are the hardwood floors that sit right on top of it.

Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Adriaan Van Wyk, CEO of K2 (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: You said Kimberly-Clark has developed 400 applications in a year on top of your big data platform. Talk to us about what the platform consists of, what data sources they are drawing from and what the types of applications are. Adriaan van Wyck: Let’s talk about the role we play within the concept

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Adriaan Van Wyk, CEO of K2 (Part 1)

Adriaan van Wyk is the chief executive officer of K2, a company that helps business customers make sense of big data analytics in order to make business decisions. The company started off in South Africa and through the years managed to create a global footprint with partners in Europe, the U.S., and Asia. In this

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