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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Brent Lang, President of Vocera (Part 4)
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
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Brent Lang, President of Vocera (Part 3)
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
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Brent Lang, President of Vocera (Part 2)
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
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Brent Lang, President of Vocera (Part 1)
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
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Mike Afergan, Senior VP & GM of Web Experience Business Unit, Akamai (Part 5)
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
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Mike Afergan, Senior VP & GM of Web Experience Business Unit, Akamai (Part 4)
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
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Mike Afergan, Senior VP & GM of Web Experience Business Unit, Akamai (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Let’s take the situational complexity and performance topics. Could you talk about at what point is each of these problems being solved? Who is solving what part of this diversity? Is it the Web experience owner? What part of the problem is he solving? What part of the problem is an infrastructure vendor
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Mike Afergan, Senior VP & GM of Web Experience Business Unit, Akamai (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: On those two trends, from where you sit at Akamai, how does that affect what you offer and what your customers are looking for from you to support those trends? Mike Afergan: There are a lot of things that come from those trends, a lot of exciting things. I’d focus on three trends
