Ntegra Greenside 2014 US Study Tour
The 18th annual IT Leaders Study Tour to USA in May 2014 delivered an extremely successful tour for all our delegates. The focus of the tour was “Silicon Valley Disruption” and we explored, emerging technologies that should not be ignored.
We live in an age where the speed of technology change has never been faster and all indicators suggest that this will continue to accelerate. This creates enormous challenges for those leading IT in major organisations. Keeping abreast with technology change and interpreting the opportunities and threats presented demands exposure to the latest thinking. There is nowhere like Silicon Valley to get a truly immersive experience of technology innovation and to learn about how organisations similar to your own are driving outstanding business performance by embracing the opportunities offered by these new technologies. Yet for IT to provide the stimulus for growth it needs more than technology and great ideas – it needs IT leaders who know how to translate innovation into actions. Our Study Tour will help you to do this.
Today, empowering technologies are increasingly available first to individuals rather than to enterprises and this is increasing pressure on IT leaders. Those involved in IT are used to rapid change but new consumer focused technologies, such as mobile, social media, cloud and big data have created fresh challenges for both IT and the business. It is inevitable that groundswell technologies will continue to shift information power to customers and employees. IT leaders must shift their mindsets for a world where technology projects can come from anywhere and IT is a key enabler, not necessarily the manager, on those projects. This power shift cannot be stopped, but IT leaders can take advantage of it. We shall focus on some of these innovative technologies and help delegates better understand how to embrace them for business benefit.
This year we met with key vendors, investors and thought leaders in Silicon Valley to gain first hand experience and expert opinion of how innovative technologies are being used for business advantage. Also we met with CIOs of major companies to understand their challenges and how they are tackling them. These learning experiences have proven to be invaluable on this Study Tour. Organisations were carefully selected with specific emphasis on enabling those IT leaders that come on the Tour to make their organisations and themselves more effective.
We saw new technologies and delegates who have access to the senior executives and technical experts of these companies, whose products and services generally are often released in UK well after their release in USA. Two days of this year’s Tour was dedicated to short presentations from key portfolio companies of two of the Valley’s most influential investors – Intel Capital and Sequoia Capital. This gave delegates the ability to take first mover advantage for the adoption of some of these technologies.
The Tour has been designed for senior IT and business executives and will deal with both management and technology issues. Numbers are limited to no more than 20 to facilitate maximum interaction. We are very excited about this year’s programme and hope that you and/or one of your colleagues will be able to join us.
As important as the programme is the opportunity to share new ideas and experiences with peers from different and diverse organisations. Many delegates on earlier tours have stressed the benefits gained from the experiences of their new colleagues. (See Testimonials on page 14).
Adobe www.adobe.com
Adobe is one of the most respected names in technology and is the global leader in digital marketing and digital media solutions. Its tools and services allow its customers to create ground-breaking digital content, deploy it across media and devices and then continually measure and optimise it based on user data.
Adobe operates at the leading edge of the digital world and is changing the world through digital experiences. For more than two decades, Adobe has been at the heart of making engaging experiences happen and fuels the content creation and delivery ecosystem of many companies. By providing complete solutions that combine digital media creation with data-driven marketing, it helps businesses improve their communications, strengthen their brands, and ultimately achieve greater business success. Adobe’s business is focused on the opportunities in two key growth markets—Digital Media and Digital Marketing. Adobe’s Digital Media content authoring solutions lead the industry, enabling customers more effectively to produce, distribute, and monetise digital content. Its Digital Marketing product delivers the most innovative solutions for optimising marketing campaigns and maximising return on marketing spend.
Salesforce.com www.salesforce.com
Salesforce.com is the leader in enterprise cloud computing and is at the leading edge of cloud deployment in the enterprise, driving many new innovative opportunities both through its own development, acquisitions and the strength of its application partners. It has transformed the enterprise software market with cloud computing and is now leading the shift to the social enterprise. Social enterprises leverage social, mobile, and open cloud technologies to put customers at the heart of their business.
Salesforce is successfully transforming itself into a cloud platform business. The future of any enterprise software vendor is being decided today in their developer community. Enabling developers to attain greater revenue growth, while creating an extensive mobile app development platform is further proof Salesforce has turned the corner from being an application company to a platform provider.
Salesforce is a next generation social, mobile and cloud platform for the new connected world – a customer platform built to transform sales, service and marketing apps for the Internet of Customers. By connecting and customising everything—every app, every device, every customer data source and every experience— companies can sell, service and market to customers in a whole new way.
Palantir www.palantir.com
Palantir Technologies builds software platforms that help human experts perform powerful, collaborative analysis of data at scale. Palantir’s software is deployed in major public sector departments, private enterprises and the non-profit sector to address the challenges of responsibly making sense of complex, diverse data.
Palantir’s solutions are backed by its data fusion platforms: Palantir Gotham and Palantir Metropolis. A data fusion platform acts as a clean, coherent abstraction on top of different types of data that all describe the same real world problem, just as an operating system creates the clean and coherent software abstraction on top of the collection of hardware we call computers. Just as operating systems heralded a sea change in application development, data fusion is the future of data-driven decision-making. These technologies for integrating, visualising and analysing massive amounts of information are revolutionising the work being done in pursuit of many of the world’s most critical missions, from defence to anti-fraud to disease response.
Palantir’s initial funding came from In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s not-for-profit venture capital firm, and it has received several rounds of funding from the Founder’s Fund, a venture capital fund run by former PayPal chief executive and Facebook backer Peter Thiel. Palantir is emerging from the shadow world of spies and special ops to take the corporate world by storm and it is this part of its business that is driving its $9bn valuation.
Intel Capital www.intelcapital.com
Intel Capital’s mission is to spur innovation and inspire the entrepreneurial spirit in support of Intel’s vision of creating and extending computing technology to connect and enrich the lives of every person on earth. Innovation drives growth, which is why Intel Capital focuses on adding value beyond its financial investment. Access to its engineering, manufacturing and strategic expertise helps its portfolio companies expand quickly, while the credibility building and international awareness of its global brand augment staying power. It delivers direct introductions to decision makers and influencers that sustain business growth with purchasing power. These are the Intel Capital advantages that build success and they will host a day with some of their portfolio companies.
Sequoia Capital www.sequoiacap.com
Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 1972. The Wall Street Journal has called Sequoia Capital “one of the highest-calibre venture firms” and noted that it is “one of Silicon Valley’s most influential venture-capital firms”. Sequoia has funded an unprecedented number of enormously successful companies including Google, Yahoo, PayPal, Electronic Arts, NVIDIA, Cisco Systems, Oracle, Apple and YouTube. Sequoia estimates that 19% of the NASDAQ’s value is made up of firms they have funded and they will host a day with some of their portfolio companies.
Adaptive Computing www.adaptivecomputing.com
Adaptive Computing’s award-winning Moab optimisation and scheduling software powers many of the world’s largest private/hybrid cloud and technical computing environments. Moab enables large enterprises in oil and gas, financial, manufacturing, research, and government to perform simulations and analyse big data faster, more accurately and more cost effectively. Adaptive is a pioneer in private/hybrid cloud, technical computing, and large-scale scheduling, holding more than 30 patents.
Adaptive Computing’s Moab Cloud Suite is an intelligent cloud management end-to-end platform. It automates provisioning, optimisation and management based on multi-dimensional policies that mimic real-world decisions – enabling organisations to speed service delivery time, reduce hardware and operational costs, maximise capacity and optimise service performance. Adaptive’s HPC solutions optimise HPC system and staff productivity while ensuring SLAs are met. The company also offers the TORQUE Resource Manager and other open source tools.
Alien Vault www.alienvault.com
AlienVault’s Unified Security Management (USM) platform is a collection of the best open source tools for asset discovery, vulnerability assessment, threat detection, behavioural monitoring and security intelligence. These security capabilities are pre-integrated and tuned to provide complete security visibility and threat management through an easy-to-use management console. The product is available as a virtual appliance, a hardware appliance and as an Amazon AMI.
Besides enabling organisations of all types and sizes to do more with less, AlienVault is also committed to making it easy for security professionals to find and share threat intelligence and the tips, tools and services they need to combat new and emerging threats. To do this, they have expanded the AlienVault Open Threat Exchange™ (OTX) from being the world’s first crowd-sourced threat database to being an open and collaborative virtual place where security professionals can connect with their peers and learn about the latest threats and defensive tactics from industry experts and security researchers.
Amazon Web Services aws.amazon.com
Base10
Base10 is the creator of WASP, a cloud based platform that provides executive management a means to rapidly leverage data from disparate legacy systems and big data insight to drive operational outcomes. The technology provides a mechanism to allow the IT department to offer self-serve solutions to their user constituency without compromising enterprise systems or security. It combines on-premises and off-premises systems and presents a unified view of capability to the user from which they can build their own solutions through visualization. This has to be seen to be believed. The company is currently in stealth mode but will be out of this by May.
Birst www.birst.com
Birst is the only enterprise-calibre Business Intelligence platform born in the cloud. Less costly and more agile than legacy BI and more powerful than data discovery, the company delivers an automated end-to-end platform that solves the entire problem – from data to visualisation. Birst customers include American Express, Cisco, InterContinental, Kellogg’s, Royal Bank of Canada and Samsung.
With the rise of powerful Cloud-based technologies, Birst decided to build a robust, multi-tenant BI platform that would unify the traditionally siloed BI technologies, automate critical data management tasks, and greatly reduce complexity—speeding deployments and reducing overall costs. It delivers real BI that does not assume that IT has already built a data infrastructure ready for analysis. It addresses a business’ entire analytics needs across all data sources, transforming raw data to analysis-ready information and empowers business users to make meaningful business decisions without the constant involvement of IT.
BlueData Software www.bluedatainc.com
BlueData is a stealth mode startup building the next-generation fast and secure big data private cloud that simplifies big data for the enterprise. For organisations wrestling with the complexity and inflexibility of big data application clusters, BlueData can improve the agility and efficiency of these clusters through intelligent management virtualisation. Today organisations invest heavily in the deployment and management of multiple physical big data clusters. It takes months to recoup this spending in the form of actionable business intelligence. A dynamic and scalable big data cluster built on the production-proven BlueData platform allows businesses to respond to their big data needs quickly, easily, and at a fraction of the cost. BlueData customers typically extract value from their data in a matter of days instead of months and save 50-70% on overall costs by improving the utilisation of their resources.
BlueData also provides storage adapters to fit legacy and new storage hardware to various applications and storages.
Docker www.docker.io
Docker is an open-source engine that automates the deployment of any application as a lightweight, portable, self-sufficient container that will run virtually anywhere. Docker containers can encapsulate any payload and will run consistently on and between virtually any servers. The same container that a developer builds and tests on a laptop will run at scale, in production, on VMs, bare-metal servers, OpenStack clusters, public instances, or combinations of the above.
Today, developers build and assemble applications using a multiplicity of the best available services and must be prepared for those applications to be deployed across a multiplicity of different hardware environments, included public, private, and virtualised servers. This creates a difficult situation for both the developers, who are writing applications, and operations, who are trying to create a scalable, secure, and highly performance operations environment. Docker overcomes this by creating a container that comprises an application and its dependencies. Containers serve to isolate processes that run in isolation in user space on the host’s operating system. This differs significantly from virtualisation that aims to create an entire virtual machine.
Common use cases for Docker include automating the packaging and deployment of applications; creating lightweight, private PAAS environments; automated testing and continuous integration/deployment; and deploying and scaling web apps, databases and backend services.
Dropbox www.dropbox.com
Dropbox was founded in 2007 with a heavy focus on the consumer market and is now a globally recognised brand. It is a free service that lets people keep photos, documents and videos in the cloud and share them easily. Dropbox provides the seamless file fabric that allows access to information anytime anywhere. The company has over 200 million users and processes over a billion files each day.
Dropbox recently released Dropbox for business, an application that offers enterprises better security and management and gives users the ability to separate their work and personal files and data but still use them simultaneously. Delta sync and LAN sync make sure that data is updated quickly, even on unreliable Internet connections and Dropbox for Business includes unlimited version history. It has very high levels of security and reliability and has attracted users in over 4 million businesses since its launch in 2013.
Evernote www.evernote.com
Evernote has been recognised as a personal productivity tool since its launch in 2008. It allows users to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform they find most convenient. It makes this information accessible and searchable at any time, from anywhere. It is ideal for notes, web pages, camera phone snapshots, to-do lists and audio notes. Notes can also have file attachments and can be sorted into folders, then tagged, annotated, edited, given comments, searched and exported as part of a notebook.
At the end of 2013, Evernote released its business version, Evernote Business, which facilitates collaboration across teams and businesses. Evernote Business introduces two new concepts: Business Notebooks and Business Libraries. Business Notebooks are useful for company information, to share information with co-workers, collaborate with your team and to help get things done in a work environment. Business Libraries are collections of Business Notebooks that all employees or team members can have access to. Business Libraries are searchable by everyone within the company.
Iovation www.iovation.com
Iovation protects online businesses and their end users against fraud and abuse through a combination of advanced device identification, shared device reputation and real-time risk evaluation. More than 2,300 fraud managers representing global retail, financial services, insurance, social network, gaming and other companies leverage Iovation’s database of Internet devices and the relationships between them to determine the level of risk associated with online transactions. The company’s device reputation database is the world’s largest, used to protect more than 10 million transactions and stop an average of 200,000 fraudulent activities every day.
Iovation provides risk management, web fraud detection, account takeover protection and mobile fraud detection with its Reputation Manager 360 service. This looks at a device and its history when used online, creating a reputation score based on business rules, geolocation and real IP, reporting and analysis, mobile recognition, real-time response, and phone verification. Iovation also provides TrustScore to identify trustworthy customers, even when new.
The world’s foremost fraud experts share intelligence, cybercrime tips and online fraud prevention techniques in Iovation’s Fraud Force Community, an exclusive virtual crime-fighting network
Joyent www.joyent.com
Joyent is a high-performance cloud infrastructure and big data analytics company, offering the only solution that is purpose-built to power today’s real-time web and mobile applications. It provides its customers with a highly cost-effective public and hybrid cloud solutions available today. Joyent works with thousands of customers around the globe to ensure that their applications and data perform just as well in the cloud as in their own data centres.
Joyent’s streamlined stack and unique cloud analytics enable companies to achieve full visibility, security, and control of their applications. IT can anticipate and avert problems before they happen using the industry’s only real-time latency analysis and self-service performance capabilities. In addition, as the corporate steward of Node.js, Joyent offers exclusive debugging and performance tools for Node.js applications. These capabilities, combined with its deep expertise and global support, transform companies’ ability to manage and scale cloud applications.
Joyent also has developed a large ecosystem of technology partners, like Hadoop, Chef and Database as a service, to deliver end to end solutions for customers.
Linkedin www.linkedin.com
Founded in 2003, LinkedIn connects the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful. With more than 259 million members worldwide LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network on the Internet. LinkedIn is the place where professionals stay connected.
Maana www.maana.io
Maana is a search engine for big data on Hadoop. It is backed by Intel Capital, GE Ventures and Frost Venture Partners and is currently still in stealth mode. It organises the data on Hadoop, right out-of-the-box for discovery, recommendation and personalisation through search. Enterprises use Maana to open up their big data on Hadoop to people in their ecosystems – employees, suppliers, partners, customers and/or consumers.
Maana is industry vertical agnostic and enables the enterprise to use its big data on Hadoop to influence the decisions and the behaviour of tens of thousands of people on its ecosystem everyday through Maana search results.
MongoDB www.mongodb.com
MongoDB is a cross-platform document-oriented NoSQL database system. It is open-source and offers developers and IT an agile, scalable approach.
Its JSON-based data model with dynamic schemas, make the integration of data in certain types of applications easier and faster while still preserving the functionality of relational databases. Its benefits include extensive driver support, horizontal scaling enabled by autosharding, enterprise-grade high availability through automated replication and lower TCO through increased developer productivity and commodity hardware deployments.
First developed by 10gen (now MongoDB Inc.) in October 2007 as a component of a planned platform as a service product, the company shifted to an open source development model in 2009, with 10gen offering commercial support and other services. Since then, MongoDB has been adopted as backend software by a number of major websites and services, including Craigslist, eBay, Foursquare, SourceForge, and The New York Times.
Moovweb www.moovweb.com
Moovweb is a next generation mobile platform for Responsive Delivery that transforms existing websites into powerful mobile experiences using a unique site virtualisation and transformation technology. The Moovweb experience platform empowers businesses to go mobile by taking a fundamentally different approach to unifying their Web and mobile development. By leveraging existing web investments, it unifies web and mobile strategies, dramatically cutting cost and creating business agility. With Moovweb, all content, features and business logic of an existing website are inherited by the mobile site or app and kept in sync in real time. Enterprise developers, design agencies, and systems integrators can use Moovweb to deliver mobile sites and apps faster and improve their mobile experiences more quickly. This approach allows powerful mobile experiences to be delivered in days, not months, and drives radically improved business agility over time.
Moovweb’s vision is that the next generation of the web is being driven by the mobile revolution and intense personalisation. Businesses that take advantage of this opportunity by delivering compelling, responsive experiences will have sustainable competitive advantage. Dozens of global brands have deployed using Moovweb, which now powers more than one billion mobile page views every month.
Okta www.okta.com
Okta is an enterprise-grade identity management service, built from the ground up in the cloud and designed to address the challenges of a cloud, mobile and interconnected business world. Many businesses are struggling to maintain security and control in an increasingly cloud and mobile-centric IT landscape. Okta integrates with existing directories and identity systems, as well as thousands of on-premises, cloud-based and mobile applications to enable IT to securely manage access across any application, person or device. Whether the people are employees, partners or customers or the applications are in the cloud, on-premises or on a mobile device, Okta helps IT become more secure, make people more productive, and maintain compliance.
The Okta service provides directory services, single sign-on, strong authentication, provisioning, workflow, and built in reporting. It runs in the cloud on a secure, reliable, extensively audited platform and integrates deeply with on premises applications, directories, and identity management systems.
Pertino www.pertino.com
Pertino is reinventing networking for the cloud era. Globalisation, cloud-enabled IT and growing demand for always-connected people, devices, and things is affecting businesses of all sizes – making the “outside network” as critical as the inside one. However, traditional VPN networks have not kept pace. Pertino’s revolutionary Cloud Network Engine enables any business to build a simple and secure cloud-based network that connects people to IT resources from anywhere at any time. No hardware, no networking knowledge and no upfront investment are required to achieve this breakthrough. Pertino has developed a software platform that combines the power and pervasiveness of the cloud with Software-defined Networking (SDN), network and service virtualisation technology and cloud-based management.
Pertino provides a LAN-like connectivity to the behind-the-firewall and cloud-based files and applications they need to be productive, no matter where they are. Unlike a VPN, Pertino acts like a LAN in the cloud, giving users a LAN-like experience when accessing resources.
Revolution Analytics www.revolutionanalytics.com
Revolution Analytics is the leading commercial provider of software and services based on the open source R project for statistical computing. Revolution Analytics meets the demands of data-driven businesses worldwide, applying data science to innovate and derive value from big data. Its Revolution R Enterprise software builds on the power of R with performance, scalability and enterprise readiness. Revolution Analytics also offers consulting, training and support services.
Revolution Analytics’ Revolution R Enterprise software is a production-grade analytics application built on the powerful open source R statistics language. With commercial enhancements and professional support for production use, it brings improved performance, scalability, and enterprise readiness to R – at a fraction of the cost of legacy products. The product enhances R with a visual IDE for R programmers, industry-leading big-data analytics algorithms, a Web Services API for integration and deployment, and connections to data platforms including Hadoop, Teradata, SAS and IBM PureData Systems for Analytics.
Sencha www.sencha.com
Sencha is the leader in HTML5 app development for web and mobile apps. It empowers developers to design, develop, and deploy cross-platform apps built with HTML5 and web standards by providing the industry-leading frameworks, tools, and management platform for web and mobile app development. HTML5 is rapidly becoming the de facto enterprise standard for building robust web and mobile apps, as it delivers unprecedented flexibility and productivity for developers, designers and end users. But while HTML5 has emerged as the ideal enterprise app development platform, enterprise developer teams still struggle to keep up with growing demands to build hundreds of high quality, easy-to-use and branded mobile apps that provide users with the tools they need to do their job.
Sencha empowers developers to rapidly design, develop and deploy high performance, cross-browser applications that precisely meet their requirements. Its HTML5-based frameworks are tailored for building ideal desktop and mobile experiences on an unprecedented number of devices, platforms and browsers. Sencha also offers the industry’s first secure and managed mobile environment for business applications — Sencha Space — that runs on any mobile device. Architect 3 is an integral part of Sencha’s comprehensive suite of solutions that empower app creators to develop universal apps from a single code base that delivers a compelling user experience across the most platforms and devices. This “write once” philosophy significantly reduces the time and costs associated with developing native apps for multiple devices.
Skyhigh Networks www.skyhighnetworks.com
Skyhigh Networks is a cloud visibility and enablement company that allows companies to embrace cloud services with appropriate levels of security, compliance, and governance while lowering overall risk and cost. With customers in financial services, professional services, healthcare, high technology, media and entertainment, manufacturing, and legal verticals, the company was a finalist for the RSA Conference Most Innovative Company award and was recently named a “Cool Vendor” by Gartner.
Skyhigh Networks brings innovations to secure unmanaged cloud usage with appropriate levels of security, governance, and compliance. Working with the Cloud Security Alliance, Skyhigh has developed a comprehensive set of criteria for evaluating the enterprise worthiness of cloud-based apps and services.
Skyhigh’s free Cloud Risk Assessment discovers and quantifies an enterprise’s cloud usage, providing complete visibility into all IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS cloud services used by employees. Skyhigh then delivers a risk assessment for all the cloud services used by employees based on 30 attributes across data, user, device, service and business categories. This helps organisations isolate potential data leaks, security breaches, and non-compliance with regulatory and internal policies from the use of cloud services. The risk assessment tool feeds into Skyhigh Secure, which provides security and control of the cloud lifecycle. Skyhigh Secure offers contextual access control, application auditing, encryption, data loss prevention (DLP), and cloud-to-cloud access control.
SRI www.sri.com
SRI International (SRI) is a non-profit research institute headquartered in Menlo Park, California. The trustees of Stanford University established SRI in 1946 as a centre of innovation to support economic development in the region. SRI is now one of the largest contract research institutes in the world. Its focus areas include biomedical sciences, chemistry and materials, computing, earth and space systems, economic development, education and learning, energy and environmental technology, security and national defence, as well as sensing and devices.
SRI has created and launched more than 50 ventures, with a total market capitalisation exceeding $20 billion. Every day, people around the world use innovative products that SRI pioneered, including the computer mouse, the Internet, high-definition television, and Siri, the first virtual personal assistant for the iPhone. Norman Winarsky, who runs SRI Ventures, will share with us the process that goes around converting a great idea into a successful business along with some of the projects he is leading.
Swrve www.swrve.com
Swrve is an in-app marketing platform. Swrve enables product and monetisation managers to deliver outstanding, personalised, user experiences and ultra-targeted marketing campaigns. That in turn means maximised retention, conversion and in-app revenues. Swrve is already used by some of the world’s leading app publishers to actively manage the user base and drive lifetime value. The company was started in 2011 by two-time entrepreneurs Hugh Reynolds and Steve Collins.
The Swrve platform incorporates class-leading analytics, segmentation, A/B testing and in-app messaging, giving monetisation managers everything they need to track user behaviour, target specific user segments, tune and test user experience, and talk to users via in-app messages. In addition to the Swrve platform, the Swrve customer success team works with each Swrve customer to manage Swrve implementation and deliver real results within days of adopting the product.
TRUSTe www.truste.com
TRUSTe is the leading global data privacy management company that powers trust in the data economy by enabling businesses to safely collect and use customer data across web, mobile, cloud and advertising channels. TRUSTe began in 1997 as a non-profit organisation for the protection of e-commerce but has been a technology company since 2008. Its cloud-based Data Privacy Management Platform delivers innovative technology products, including website monitoring and advertising compliance controls – along with privacy assessments and certifications. More than 5,000 companies worldwide, including Apple, Disney, eBay, Forbes, LinkedIn and Oracle rely on the DPM platform and globally recognised Certified Privacy Seal to protect/enhance their brand, drive user engagement and minimise compliance risk.
TRUSTe underlies trust by ensuring businesses adhere to best practices regarding the collection and use of personal information on their websites and apps. If you see the TRUSTe Certified Privacy Seal on a website or app, the company operating that property has met the comprehensive privacy certification requirements established by TRUSTe.
TYLR www.tylrmobile.com
Tylr Mobile is turning the mobile inbox into a connected platform for mobile work. They have built an app that helps workers be productive on the go, a platform to meet the unique needs of each enterprise and connectors to the systems businesses need to run. Its basic premise is that the way people work on the go is broken. They have incredible computers in their pockets with dozens of mobile apps but most of these are not fit for the enterprise. Sadly, the ones built for the enterprise are not fit to use in today’s mobile world. Tylr Mobile addresses this issue.
Its first app is WorkinBox, an actionable inbox connected to CRM. WorkinBox helps salespeople be more responsive to their customers and helps companies, who sink $12 billion a year into CRM systems that nobody really uses on the road, manage their sales teams. Tylr’s main differentiator is its technology platform that provides a unique way of building and deploying dynamic mobile apps that are flexible enough to meet the needs of the enterprise. It has received investment from Alchemist Accelerator,Citrix, Salesforce.com, Oracle and SAP.
Virtustream www.virtustream.com
Virtustream provides software and services that enable enterprise-class cloud computing, with a comprehensive portfolio of software solutions, managed infrastructure-as-a-service, and professional services. They enable enterprises, governments, and service providers to move complex production applications to private, public, or hybrid clouds. Their xStream software and Virtustream IAAS solutions deliver secure cloud efficiency with performance SLAs for mission critical applications. Virtustream also offers professional services to design, migrate to, and manage clouds.
Virtustream’s xStream high-performance cloud software is available as software, an appliance, or as a managed service, enabling robust private/public/hybrid cloud deployments, tailored to the needs of enterprise users. XStream uses patented Virtustream VMTM technology, which supports multiple hypervisors, enables granular billing and chargeback and is more efficient than traditional virtualisation. XStream can be installed in existing data centres, existing hardware and complements existing virtualisation. The company offers a complete suite of cloud IAAS services from Virtustream’s data centres and professional services to complement their software, including Cloud Managed Services, Cloud Professional Services, and Cloud Staging and Network Services.
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