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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Lou Guercia, CEO of Scribe Software (Part 3)

Posted on Sunday, Mar 16th 2014

Sramana Mitra: Can you give an example of what type of things are sports teams trying to do with that kind of data?

Lou Guercia: Let’s take the Oakland A’s, for example. You are a baseball fan. They are able to correlate your name and your credit card information to the games you’ve attended such as home games at the Oakland A’s park that you’ve attended. In this case, Oakland A’s will know who sat in what seats for what games. They’ll also know whether or not you’re sitting in one of the regular seats or if you’re a high-flyer and you’re a corporate box holder. They’ll correlate for what games you tend to rent out the big box and then they’ll basically begin marketing to you when teams of that name come up again or if they tend to see that you’re a person that will purchase tickets when East Coast teams comes to your West Coast park. >>>

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Lou Guercia, CEO of Scribe Software (Part 2)

Posted on Saturday, Mar 15th 2014

Sramana Mitra: If you were to synthesize in this case study, what specifically is your value addition to this use case? Can you summarize and align?

Lou Guercia: Microsoft would say they have the technology assets to solve the challenges that the state is experiencing. Tribridge has worked with other states’ Department of Corrections and brings in industry expertise, having understood the workflow, the disparate types of data sources that are required to develop a world class system for incarceration supervision and rehabilitation. We at Scribe are experts at making sure that the correct data according to the workflow models is of the proper quality – that it’s delivered to the right systems, that error checking and the integrity of that data is absolutely correct. We, essentially, are the data integration piping that runs throughout the state of Illinois system. >>>

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Lou Guercia, CEO of Scribe Software (Part 1)

Posted on Friday, Mar 14th 2014

There is much going on in the small niches of the cloud. Here’s a discussion that highlights some examples.

Sramana Mitra: Lou, let’s introduce our audience to yourself as well as to Scribe Software.

Lou Guercia: Scribe is a software company. We’re a global provider of solutions focused on allowing enterprises to easily bring customer data anywhere it’s needed regardless of the infrastructure – it can be in the cloud or on-premise. >>>

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Simon Cooper, CIO of ServicePower (Part 3)

Posted on Sunday, Mar 9th 2014

Sramana Mitra: Can you elaborate on that? Can you use an example to explain what you’re talking about?

Simon Cooper: If you take a large retailer, for example, they may be using SAP as their primary system. Then, when they source work out to third-parties and they want to get data back in a timely fashion, there’s a mixture of third-party software that they use. They might just be using QuickBooks application or another might be using some of the SMB software that’s specifically designed for saving appliance space. >>>

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Simon Cooper, CIO of ServicePower (Part 2)

Posted on Saturday, Mar 8th 2014

Sramana Mitra: Talk about two or three customers and really double-click down into how they’re using your product.

Simon Cooper: If we look at the US, we have a Tier One retailer that uses the application. They have quite a substantial field service workforce that is out on the road every day. They use the scheduling tool, GPS tracking tool, and business intelligence tool to manage that workforce. They also use our third-party tool to place work into and extract out of that third-party space. They can act both as a job provider and a service provider, on both sides of that equation. That allows them to basically manage their workload. They can obviously fill-up less staff with the work they’re receiving directly.

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Simon Cooper, CIO of ServicePower (Part 1)

Posted on Friday, Mar 7th 2014

The field service industry is heavily impacted by cloud computing. Here’s a short conversation with one of the players.

Sramana Mitra: Simon, let’s introduce our audience to you as well as to ServicePower.

Simon Cooper: My name is Simon Cooper. I’m the CIO of ServicePower. ServicePower has been in the field service management space since the early ‘90s. Originally, we were funded from a research project in Europe as part of ICL Fujitsu to develop artificial intelligence-based algorithms to solve complex scheduling problems. From there, we’ve evolved into a field service management leader. >>>

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Yaacov Cohen, Co-Founder and CEO of Harmon.ie (Part 6)

Posted on Thursday, Mar 6th 2014

Sramana Mitra: There’s one article called “Innovation’s Next Decade” which you will find interesting. That article will probably address the kind of things that you’re talking about.

Yaacov Cohen: I believe also in the convergence of ethics and technology. Spirituality and technology needs to be better converged. Technology won’t free humanity.

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Yaacov Cohen, Co-Founder and CEO of Harmon.ie (Part 5)

Posted on Wednesday, Mar 5th 2014

Yaacov Cohen: The enterprise is a lot more heterogeneous. It used to be controlled by three to five vendors. It’s a lot more diverse, because I can have a cloud service for pretty much anything in the enterprise. I think the mega trend here is enterprise mobility and it includes cloud services, BYOD, devices, and security. I think that’s the landscape. >>>

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