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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Mike Flannagan, SVP of Analytics, SAP (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: The Netflix example is not a right example, because Netflix is not a vendor that sells AI software to other people. I think this question is only reasonable when you take into account a vendor who sells any domain-specific AI software to a whole lot of different customers who could be competitors. Netflix
Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Mike Flannagan, SVP of Analytics, SAP (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: The job titles become critical because all the search engines and the AI on that side operate on the basis of keywords. Using the right keyword vastly enhances the findability of certain things. Mike Flannagan: Absolutely. Say for example I tell you, “I want you to go find me a data scientist.” You’d
Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Mike Flannagan, SVP of Analytics, SAP (Part 1)
This is a superb conversation about the trends and directions in which AI is evolving, especially in business applications. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to SAP’s artificial intelligence activities. What trends are you seeing? What trends are you leading? Mike Flannagan: The most significant thing that we’re seeing is that people don’t
Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: David Parker, Global Vice President, SAP (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: What you mentioned is data in general. That’s not data generated by Internet of Things because they’re not rolling out Internet of Things yet. David Parker: You’re missing the point. What I’m saying is what’s preventing them from rolling out Internet of Things is the data security because they want to take that
Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: David Parker, Global Vice President, SAP (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: Only if you can ensure that it is a secure process. Because if you look at all the breaches that we’ve seen like the Target breach, it’s opening up huge question marks on whether it’s a good idea to expose that much of surface area to security threats. David Parker: That’s one side
Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: David Parker, Global Vice President, SAP (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: How pervasive would you say is the adoption of Internet of Things? Do you have sensors’ use cases in each of these segments that you brought up? It sounds like manufacturing and industrial automation is one of the early adopters. Is that 100% penetrated? What are we talking here? David Parker: The irony
Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: David Parker, Global Vice President, SAP (Part 4)
David Parker: Number two is, these industries like manufacturing, CPG, automotive, mining, oil & gas are the primary industries that we’re seeing a lot of traction from our customers across the globe, irrespective of the initiative that’s coming out of Germany. The main reason for that is that they envision that there must be a
Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: David Parker, Global Vice President, SAP (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: I have a specific question on what is the state of the union that you are seeing in your customer base with SAP. Are there large customers who are connecting up through these RFID/sensor devices with huge numbers of assets? If so, then which industry sectors are they in and, if you are
