SM: OK. What was the evolution of those situations? AM: Typically in these private equity rollups of software companies, they’re not all that effective. The top talent will leave right away. Those two companies still exist [but] neither is competitive in the marketplace today. SM: OK. All right. Those are on the private equity side,
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SM: What would be helpful would be to double click down on some of those and give me some use cases. How are researchers using it? PL: Sure. Let’s say there’s a sales rep who needs to be connected with his inventory, and a particular life sciences company that makes medical devices needs to constantly
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SM: There are many classifications of big data and real time. At this point, that’s one of the reasons why there’s so much activity in the space right now. AZ: Yes. Big data can be sold to enterprises because no matter who you are, you don’t have to be a Facebook anymore to have an
SM: There are two trends that we are discussing in this conversation. One is the real-time trend. The other is the big-data trend. So, I would like to do a thought experiment with you that takes both of those into account and use a social media construct on the use case. Let’s say we are looking