Sramana Mitra: Would you speak a bit more specifically on what your assumptions are in that regard? Are you trying to create a social decision making platform under the Wells Fargo website itself, or are you trying to create conversations or touch points to the conversations that are happening on Facebook and Twitter and so
San Francisco, California–based Wells Fargo is a financial services company that offers banking, insurance, investments, mortgage, and consumer and commercial finance services throughout the United States. With 270,000 employees working in more than 80 businesses nationwide, Wells Fargo has come a long way over the past 160 years. Always moving forward, like the stagecoach that
SM: Where do you see the evolution? I think these functions, the file sharing function and the collaborative function and the integration, these three pieces we’ve talked about, I think it’s going to take some time for enterprises to fully adapt to this, especially on the integration function. I think it’s going to take substantial
Sramana Mitra: What you’re describing is a time not too far in the future in the use case that you talked about, Tommy, in that you want to organize a sales conference with a bunch of customers. You want to invite them to this sales conference, and you need to pull data from Salesforce.com. Potentially,
SM: From your perspective, what is the state of the union, in terms of the connectors, that would allow you to realize the vision of deeper integration? BdA: I would say newer, contemporary, agile services like Podio are built on connectors. Podio is itself is built on its own APIs. So, new services are already
Sramana Mitra: How did you get into the market? This is a tough place when there are so many players going at it with so many different perspectives. Bernardo de Albergaria: Yes and no. Yes, because you have to position yourself vis-à-vis all the other players that exist in the market. Why are you different?
Sramana Mitra: Let’s talk about where you see the industry going. I think the best place to start is the evolution of social collaboration. I think Citrix, along with companies like WebEx, did some of the pioneering work in online collaboration, which got us quite a bit farther than where we were in the 1990s
Santa Barbara, California–based Citrix Online is a division of Citrix Systems with branch offices all over the world. Citrix Online’s cloud service offerings – GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar, GoToMyPC, GoToTraining, GoToAssist, and GoToAssist Corporate – are accessed and used by approximately 17,000 new users each month. In May 2012, the company announced that it had won the