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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Tim Minahan, Network Strategy VP for Ariba (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: That is interesting. That brings me to the question about startups. Of the one million companies transacting on your system, what is the distribution? How many are large companies, how many are mid-sized companies, and how many are small companies? Tim Minahan: Demographics would certainly tell you that the large majority of them
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Tim Minahan, Network Strategy SVP for Ariba (Part 1)
Tim Minahan is senior vice president of network strategy and global marketing for Ariba, host of the largest business network on the planet. Tim has more than 20 years of experience in enterprise technology research and marketing. In this interview, Tim gives us insights into how Ariba helps businesses of all sizes connect with each
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Tim Minahan, Network Strategy VP for Ariba (Part 2)
Srmana Mitra: I would like to do three or four interesting use cases of how your buyers and sellers are leveraging that data or how you are prompting them to leverage that data. Tim Minahan: If you consider your personal life, you have heard a bit about the social graph, which maps not only your
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Oliver Bussmann, CIO of SAP (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: As you work on of figuring out what the best IT strategies are – mobile, social, cloud and big data – can you identify things you would like to do but are not able to because you haven’t been able to find a product or a solution? Maybe you could do it by
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Oliver Bussmann, CIO of SAP (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: If you look around at the startups and vendors who are innovating, which strike you as interesting? Oliver Bussmann: On the social side, there is the integration of social into various business processes. I believe in that the next two years the Facebook or Twitter of the enterprise will be defined. That is
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Oliver Bussmann, CIO of SAP (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: How much of that are you doing inside SAP today? Oliver Bussmann: We have over 1,200 projects that have been or are being implemented. We were the first HANA customer in 2010, by moving our customer relationship database into the HANA appliance. In this case we have 4,000 people in sales updating customer
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Oliver Bussmann, CIO of SAP (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: I have a question about the different areas of apps. Obviously, there is a great deal of policy management going on in the enterprise. Twenty thousand people on devices using some permutation of 50 different tablet or phone apps. Not everybody gets to see everything. Is that correct? Oliver Bussmann: That is the
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Oliver Bussmann, CIO of SAP (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Let me mention a few of the points you discussed. First, you said you have 20,000 devices that you are supporting right now? Oliver Bussmann: Yes, we have 20,000 iPads. We are the second largest user of iPads. There is only one other, a Korean telecommunications company, with [more, at] 30,000 devices. We
