Sramana Mitra: It’s not usually easy to sell pure horizontal. In the world of complex queries, what is missing? If you look at the universe, what are the specific things or capabilities that are missing from the ecosystem that would help you and help your customers, and that could be opportunities for new companies to
Steve Davis: One of our largest clients is one of the largest auto manufacturers in North America. They have a problem analyzing various data sources that might have valuable information that could contribute to analysis of emerging safety issues. All of their data sources are all in separate systems. They had a notion to incorporate
Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with a little bit of an ecosystem map of your space. What is your worldview in terms of who are the players, what are the issues? What does the world around you look like? Where do you position yourself in that universe? Marc Alacqua: In the Big Data space, there are
Complex search queries remains a tricky arena. Read on to learn more. Sramana Mitra: If you could provide us with some background about yourself as well as Signafire to start us off, that would be great. Marc Alacqua: I’m the CEO and Co-Founder of Signafire. Steve Davis is one of my partners and also Co-Founder.