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thought leaders in big data
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Eldad Farkash, CTO of Sisense (Part 2)
Eldad Farkash: A different example would be Galaxy Semiconductor. I’m taking you to a completely different spectrum. They actually test hardware, usually in Asia where most of the semiconductor industry is. They want to use analytics to crunch billions of records that represent wafer cost. They want to have the visualization that shows them, during
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Bill Simmons, CTO of DataXu (Part 1)
Bill Simmons is a co-founder and currently the chief technology officer of DataXu, a digital marketing management firm that offers platforms and services for advertisers and agencies in order to increase their advertising efficiency and marketing ROI. Bill obtained a PhD in astronautics and aeronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Before working for
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Venkat Viswanathan, CEO of LatentView Analytics (Part 1)
Venkat Viswanathan is the founder and chief executive officer of LatentView Analytics, a predictive analytics and enterprise decision management services firm based in Princeton, New Jersey. He holds a degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. In this interview, Venkat talks about
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Stew Langille, CEO of Visual.ly (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: According to you, you are operating at the very end of the big data spectrum. There are infrastructure players that provide the infrastructure for big data to be processed and researched. Then there are the applications that provide the domain knowledge and the logic based on such data. You provide the presentation layer
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Martin Smith, SVP, Ad Platforms and General Manager, TruEffect (Part 1)
Martin Smith is senior vice president of ad platforms and general manager of advertising technology company TruEffect. Martin has more than 29 years of technology experience in the U.S. and the U.K., having worked for Apple and for hardware and software provider Zones. In this interview Martin talks about how TruEffect uses big data to
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Derek Rodner, Vice President of Product Strategy, Agilence (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: And what is happening in the financial sector? Derek Rodner: That was the third sector I was thinking about. So again, the three are genomics, meteorology, and finance. Dealing with global markets, dealing with statistical analysis, the intern space, which is a part of finance – all of those areas are definitely big
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Derek Rodner, Vice President of Product Strategy, Agilence (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: You are primarily involved in the retail space, but what other industries are potentially big adapters of big data in regards to video analytics? Derek Rodner: Any public sector area. I am talking about airports, train stations, subway stations, and so on. [Governments are actually using this] now in city and state parks.
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Dale Skeen, CTO of Vitria (Part 7)
Dale Skeen: I agree. You have these areas of capability, and in each one you are finding increasing refinement of the domain knowledge. Offering [our product] as an SaaS offering makes sense because you are dealing with smaller businesses that typically have less IT capability. The SaaS mode is typically the least costly way for
