TAG: business intelligence

Irfan Khan, SVP and Chief Technology Officer - Sybase

Lowering the speed at which trades can be completed – referred to as latency – is a way to find an edge in stock exchanges and in the highly competitive financial services industry as a whole. To stay ahead of competitors, pacesetters in the financial services industry’s race to zero latency are reconciling how they think about technology.

Shirish Netke, EVP, Business Analytics Solutions - Saama Technologies & Ravi Kalakota, Managing Director - Alvarez & Marsal

As mobile becomes a must-have channel, not a nice-to-have afterthought, the apps are getting more sophisticated (richer graphics and more easily consumable information on demand); and this further fuels adoption. We are moving away from the "shrink to fit" method of taking legacy business applications and simply downsizing them for the smaller, mobile screen.

Lars Bjork, CEO - QlikTech

For years, IDC has ranked QlikTech the world's fastest-growing BI software vendor, and the company has won many awards for its product, QlikView, and its innovation and disruptive technology. Even more interesting than its fast market traction is the fact that it brands itself as "a new kind of software company" and consistently wins awards for being a great place to work. Sandhill.com spoke with QlikTech CEO, Lars Bjork, about the company's origins and growth journey. In this article he shares the decisions and mindset that led to success and the lessons learned along the way.

Ken Bado, CEO - MarkLogic

Our MarkLogic User Conference was unusual in that MarkLogic is not a company that's been around for 30 years with user conferences almost like a class reunion where you see people you know and may have worked with for many years. Rather, it was an innovators' conference. The participants were people who are trailblazing new technology. Even so, the surprise was how many business people, not just IT developers, attended. This year I noticed a lot of high-level business people - of course CIOs, but line-of-business leaders also participated. "Big Data Analytics" is a hot topic, and there is an acceleration of interest on the business side in how to get their arms around the explosion of unstructured information in their companies.

Shirish Netke, EVP, Business Analytics Solutions - Saama Technologies & Ravi Kalakota, Managing Director - Alvarez & Marsal

The data overload is making finding the obvious in the increasing tidal wave of structured and unstructured data a full-time job. As organizations emerge from the deep recession of 2008, the competitive pressures are putting even greater demands on the decision-making, KPIs and performance management processes of organizations.