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

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Dale Skeen, CTO of Vitria (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: What is the size of your market at present, and what segments do you go after? It is a very interesting analogy to cater to that segment. It could be products and services. I just did a story with an HR services provider. They specialize in recruitment technology: job posting and recruiting technology

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Dale Skeen, CTO of Vitria (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s switch to the next broad topic, which is the gap in the market – the open spaces and the opportunities there. What opportunities do you see from where you are? If you were starting a company today, where would you place your bets? Dale Skeen: I think that if we focus on

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Dale Skeen, CTO of Vitria (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Would you like to do a few more use cases? Dale Skeen: The second thing I wanted to talk about is a customer, who for competitive reasons doesn’t want to be named. It is a large telecommunications carrier that had sensor networks, which I mentioned before. Most mobile carriers would like to give

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Dale Skeen, CTO of Vitria (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Now, let’s take some use cases and work through three or four customers whose cases you have permission to discuss. You may choose which best project your capabilities. The objective is to give our readers a feel of what is happening in your world of big data.

Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Dale Skeen, CTO of Vitria (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: When you talk about applications of big data in business process optimization or business process management, what kinds of business processes are you choosing to get involved in? Dale Skeen: We call this [approach] operational intelligence. Some of the places where you might want to apply operational intelligence at the business process level

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Dale Skeen, CTO of Vitria (Part 1)

Dale Skeen is CTO and co-founder of Vitria Technology Inc. He has a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and was chief scientist for TIBCO Software prior to founding Vitria. Today, Dale is considered by many of his colleagues in the industry as the pioneer in real-time business process analysis. In this interview he

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