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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Alex Bard, VP and GM of Desk.com, a Salesforce Company (Part 1)

Posted on Monday, Oct 8th

Desk.com was founded in 2009 under the name of Assistly. The company released the premiere version of its Desk.com product in September 2010. By September 2011, the company had been acquired by Salesforce.com and Desk.com became one of many offerings that Salesforce.com provides for its international clientele. Sramana Mitra: Hi, Alex. Let’s start with a

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Brent Lang, President of Vocera (Part 5)

Posted on Friday, Sep 7th

Sramana Mitra: Clearly, you’re getting a lot of traction in the hospital segment. It makes sense to build out that segment. Brent Lang: In terms of advice to readers who are thinking about starting businesses or growing businesses, I would say that one of the critical aspects that we spent a lot of time thinking

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Brent Lang, President of Vocera (Part 4)

Posted on Thursday, Sep 6th

Sramana Mitra: In what other ways is the mobility trend affecting hospitals? Brent Lang: A hospital is probably one of the most mobile environments in the world. There are very few workplaces you’ll go to where almost every employee is standing and walking for almost the entire day. There have been studies that showed that

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Brent Lang, President of Vocera (Part 3)

Posted on Wednesday, Sep 5th

Sramana Mitra: Essentially it acts as an intelligent phone that is optimized for a hospital’s work flow and the people in the hospital, right? Brent Lang: Yes. You could think of it as a wearable, hands-free phone that’s controlled by using voice commands and that has an intelligent workflow engine that directs the call to

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Brent Lang, President of Vocera (Part 2)

Posted on Tuesday, Sep 4th

Sramana Mitra: You did about $25 million in the second quarter of 2012? Brent Lang: That’s correct. For the quarter, we did just shy of $25 million. SM: You said a nurse can say the name of the person he’s trying to reach into his Vocera badge. Could you flesh that out a bit? Who

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Brent Lang, President of Vocera (Part 1)

Posted on Monday, Sep 3rd

Effective communication is vital for the success of any business, but for hospitals and other health care facilities, it’s an absolute must. Vocera helps by providing mobile communication solutions that address the most serious communication challenges that health care workers face every day. More than 750 health care organizations use Vocera solutions to function more

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Mike Afergan, Senior VP & GM of Web Experience Business Unit, Akamai (Part 5)

Posted on Friday, Aug 31st

Sramana Mitra: What exactly are some of those decisions? Would you give us examples of some of the more complex decisions that happen at the edges? Mike Afergan: Sure, take image manipulation, adapting an image. To be clear, it’s simple from a conceptual perspective. It’s easy to understand. Doing that at scale across a number

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Mike Afergan, Senior VP & GM of Web Experience Business Unit, Akamai (Part 4)

Posted on Thursday, Aug 30th

Sramana Mitra: There are a variety of user experiences and architecture designs that are being stored and based on what device a request is coming in from, the right one is being served. You’re saying that the decision of which of those designs is going to be served and what performance level is being done

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