Marc Andreessen talks about why he invests in GoodData in a chat with Fortune’s Adam Lashinsky about the future of technology.
Marc Andreessen talks about why he invests in GoodData in a chat with Fortune’s Adam Lashinsky about the future of technology.
“The internet’s academic roots lay in collaboration, but the rise of client/server computing favoured a more hierarchical way of working. However, the rise of Web 2.0 platforms has both revealed and tapped into a desire for knowledge sharing and collaboration.
That trend has spread to the enterprise, where the same collaborative potential of social platforms is [...]
“Deserved or not, the travails of software-as-a-service (SaaS) business intelligence (BI) specialist LucidEra Inc. raise questions about the viability of the SaaS model. More importantly, they invite a referendum on the proper — or most cost-effective — way of doing SaaS. Unrest in the SaaS BI segment parallels that in the data warehouse (DW) appliance [...]
“(Fortune Magazine) — Ben Horowitz was toiling as an unheralded product strategist at Netscape Communications when he opened a scathing e-mail from his boss, Marc Andreessen. It was the winter of 1996; Netscape’s public offering, several months earlier, had ignited the dotcom craze, and co-founder Andreessen had just appeared on Time’s cover, sitting on a [...]
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“Enough complaining about the broken bits of Business Intelligence; it’s time to highlight the things that are good and right in the industry. Like most industries, the renewal and innovation occurs at the fringe, beyond the comfort zone of established vendors.
I’ve created five categories and a catch-all to capture the solutions and companies (not so much [...]
“Roman Stanek, during his opening keynote at the Cloud Computing Conference & Expo Europe in Prague today, said “Big server vendors such as HP, Sun, Dell, Microsoft, as well as monolithic app providers will be among the losers of the Cloud Computing revolution, while innovation, SMBs, and the little guys will be the winners of the Cloud.”
In his [...]
GoodData, a startup founded in the Czech Republic and with headquarters in San Francisco, has closed a second round of financing – $2.5 million from Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, OATV and General Catalyst. The company has now raised a total of around $4.5 million in capital.
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“Collaboration is the act of working jointly – two or more people combining their efforts toward achieving shared or intersecting goals. Collaboration is fundamental to teamwork and is generally viewed as a good and culturally desirable thing. Yet analysis is practiced almost exclusively as a solitary activity – the determined and dogged analyst persistently digging [...]
“Collaborative BI is a trend that is beginning to gain momentum. The idea behind it is to make it easier for people in a company (or even outside of the company) to work together to analyze data and share analysis. There are several ways to accomplish this goal – from the simple to more complex.. [...]