Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Constantin Delivanis, CEO of BDNA (Part 5)

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

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Constantin Delivanis, CEO of BDNA (Part 4)

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

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Constantin Delivanis, CEO of BDNA (Part 3)

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

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Constantin Delivanis, CEO of BDNA (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Which customers are you solving this problem for? Are you selling to the enterprise? Constantin Delivanis: Yes, Fortune 5000. SM: Take us through some use cases on how this trend and this technology are playing out.

Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Constantin Delivanis, CEO of BDNA (Part 1)

Constantin Delivanis is the chief executive officer of BDNA, a leading company in DaaS (data as a service). Constantin holds an MS from Stanford University and a BS from the University of Alexandria, Egypt. He is a serial entrepreneur and has been CEO of several successful companies prior to BDNA. In this interview he talks

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India vs. Silicon Valley: A SaaS-y War

Software as a service (SaaS) probably grew in popularity as quickly as it did thanks to Salesforce.com. The customer relationship management (CRM) giant made the lives of sales professionals much easier, and the platform soon gained traction as a handy tool for non-sales professionals as well. But Salesforce.com wasn’t—and still isn’t—affordable for everybody. Enter Zoho, a bootstrapped, India-based company that offers

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Mike Toplisek, EVP, Product and Marketing, EarthLink (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: So, it’s a technology-enabled solution. It’s not a people-empowered service; it’s software as a service. Mike Toplisek: That’s right. It’s about empowerment. We’re driving more toward that. We have a business with an existing cost structure that enables us to provide human touch as needed. We’ll service our customers in the way that

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Mike Toplisek, EVP, Product and Marketing, EarthLink (Part 3)

SM: This is an interesting discussion. When people read this interview, can they gauge how to determine whether or not they would be a fit for you? MT: Yes. It’s very broad. We play in multiple verticals. So, what we’re doing is alignment of value-add applications and bundling that with other necessary tools like collaboration

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