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IT Sapiens, for Those Who Are Not

Perhaps one of the most refreshing moments in my analyst life is when I get the chance to witness the emergence of new tech companies—innovating and helping small and big organizations alike to solve their problems with data. This is exactly the case with Latvia-based IT Sapiens , an up-and-coming company focused on helping those small or budget-minded companies to solve their basic yet crucial data reporting issues. Fact: Not all companies Are IT Sapiens Quite often we let ourselves go and fall for all hype technologies and those companies adopting them: Big Data, large analytics deployments, and such others. We often forget that a large number of companies are still facing much more basic problems such as basic reporting and analytics, thinking this is only a thing of the past. Well, not too long ago I had the opportunity to speak with IT Sapiens, a start-up company that is still working on the provision of day-to-day reporting and analytics solutions for a large number of small

Influencer Summit 2016—Teradata Reshapes Itself with Analytics and the Cloud

For anyone with even a small amount of understanding regarding current trends in the software industry it will come as no surprise that the great majority of enterprise software companies are focusing on the incorporation of analytics, big data, cloud adoption, and especially the Internet of Things into their software solutions. In fact, these capabilities have become so ubiquitous that for users and customers the focus is not so much the initial adoption of these technologies by software providers but more how this incorporation is being made and the specific benefits it could have for them. A couple of weeks ago, I had the chance to attend Teradata ’s recent Influencer Summit in San Diego, California, where customer success stories and product updates were provided. The event was particularly interesting as it outlined some of the next steps to be taken by Teradata and how Teradata is clearly reshaping itself towards a future with a very different software ecosystem and business