The Briefing Room with William McKnight and Actian
Live Webcast July 16, 2013
http://www.insideanalysis.com
The proliferation of cloud-based applications continues across all industries, and for all kinds of reasons: time, money, ease-of-deployment, functionality, and maintenance. But while the cloud offers clear benefits, many organizations remain unsure about which solutions to point at various aspects of business operations, and wonder how to integrate with on-prem systems. That's the beauty of a comprehensive cloud strategy: all the benefits of cloud deployments, plus the power and flexibility of a managed infrastructure — without the guessing game.
Register for this episode of The Briefing Room to hear veteran Analyst William McKnight explain how cloud offerings are expanding, in turn creating opportunity for organizations to more quickly deploy and use valuable cloud-based solutions. He'll be briefed by Omid Sedaghatian of Actian, who will tout his company's DataCloud, an on-demand services platform powered by Amazon Web Services. He will explain how the Actian DataCloud Platform can enable line-of-business and developers to leverage the dynamics of Actian's data services and help across the spectrum of two major forces: big data and data that’s born in the cloud.
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Welcome
Host:
Eric Kavanagh
eric.kavanagh@bloorgroup.com
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! Reveal the essential characteristics of enterprise software,
good and bad
! Provide a forum for detailed analysis of today s innovative
technologies
! Give vendors a chance to explain their product to savvy
analysts
! Allow audience members to pose serious questions... and get
answers!
Mission
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Topics
This Month: CLOUD
August: ANALYTIC PLATFORMS
September: ANALYTICS
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Cloud
• On-premise
data sources
• Cloud data
sources
• Applications
• Big Data
INTEGRATION
CHALLENGE
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Analyst: William McKnight
William is President of McKnight Consulting Group. His
clients have included 17 of the Global 2000, and many
clients have gone public with their success stories. His
team's implementations have won multiple Best
Practices awards. William is an Entrepreneur of the
Year Finalist, a frequent best practices judge and an
expert witness. He has hundreds of articles and dozens
of white papers in publication, and he is a popular
speaker who has given numerous keynote presentations
worldwide. William’s experience includes taking his
company to placement on the Inc. 500 and the Dallas
100 to seller of a multi-million dollar consulting firm.
William is a passionate communicator and motivator.
William is a former IT VP of a Fortune 50 company.
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! Actian is a database and software development company
! Actian offers Actian DataCloud, an iPaaS (Integration
Platform as a Service) solution powered by Amazon Web
Services
! It also offers Actian Apps, lightweight applications that
automate business actions triggered by real-time changes in
data
Actian
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Omid Sedaghatian
Omid first joined Actian as an Enablement Services
Engineer, building extensions for many of the Actian
products to ensure partner success. Moving into the
Sales Engineer role, he was able to apply this
technical knowledge of the inner workings of the
Actian integration products. Omid excelled in seeing
partners’ and prospects’ vision and helped to
architect integration solutions that would not only
meet their needs but allow them to expand their
business through a variety of methods. He quickly
moved into the senior position due to his strong set
of skills and his mentorship role in guiding new team
members to success. It was these very skills that
propelled him into Product Marketing, where he is
now working on the current positioning and future
vision of the Actian DataCloud brand.
9. Maximum Overdrive: How Cloud-
Born Data Changes the Game
The Briefing Room
Omid Sedaghatian, Product Marketing Manager
for Actian DataCloud
July 16, 2013