Sramana Mitra: What are some new categories of services you are seeing in the telecom business? Tom Dibble: The two we are seeing predominantly are cloud services and content services. The lines are getting much blurrier now between classic telcos like AT&T or Horizon versus what AWS [Amazon Web Services] does. We are going to
Sramana Mitra: One thing we believe is that letting people use something for an unlimited period without charging them doesn’t really help monetization. Free trials, however, are much better ways of converting free customers to paying customers. Do you have a perspective on that? Tom Dibble: It is very industry specific. If you look at
Sramana Mitra: Can you talk about how you are operating in that premium scenario with a good visual example? When does Aria kick in? Does anybody who tries to use OpenShift, for example, get into the Aria systems right away, or do they only get into it when premium services kick in? Tom Dibble: I
Sramana Mitra: Talk through the examples you mentioned. Let’s take the industrial example first. How much of this are you seeing across the industrial segment? Is this an anomaly, or is this kind of subscription consumer service happening at a larger scale? Tom Dibble: That is interesting, because if you asked me that two years
Tom Dibble is the CEO of Aria Systems, a company that offers the unique cloud-based “Aria Subscription Billing Platform,” which enables enterprises to manage subscriptions and billing. Tom holds a degree in economics with honors from the Syracuse University and has more than 20 years of enterprise experience, having worked for Goldman Sachs and Company,
Sramana Mitra: Domain-specific business logic that allows you to contextualize. You cannot contextualize anything without domain-specific business logic. Constantin Delivanis: That is correct. We have a massive catalog with roughly 500,000 products and roughly 35 million data points that allow to add context. Of course there is logic, you are right. You take this data
Sramana Mitra: The vision of this part of the world you are seeing is that this data brokering layer, which is absorbing all this device data coming from all over the place, is going to be captured and managed and break out onto different layers as well. And you will see a platform as a
Sramana Mitra: Bridge for us where your introduction of the Internet of Things comes in here. Of these applications you described, none of those speak to that trend. Constantin Delivanis: Let’s take MRIs as an example. In this particular case, they do not have a silo: we grab the data directly from the devices. You