1Mby1M Udemy Courses with Sramana Mitra: Domain Knowledge

At 1Mby1M, we believe in learning from case studies of successful entrepreneurs. These case studies involve discussions on opportunities and challenges specific to the domain such as Generative AI, E-Commerce, Digital Health, Cyber Security, and FinTech. 

Internet of Things is the Future for SAP

SAP (NYSE: SAP) is one ERP player that has successfully adapted itself to the changing market landscape. After proving its mettle within the Cloud/Big Data market with HANA, the company is now gearing up to target the Internet of Things (IoT) segment.

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5 Thought Leaders in Internet of Things

The Internet of Things (IoT) trend is significant, and will blossom over the rest of the decade. Actually, IoT has been around for a while, and I have been interviewing leaders in the field to share why things are accelerating now and where the gaps are. Here are five conversations to help give you a broad perspective on IoT today.

• Colin Sutherland, Co-Founder of Geotab – There’s a ton of data being generated through vehicle telematics that need apps to make sense of. Entrepreneurs looking for problems to solve – please read on!
• Bob Witter, CEO of Device Solutions – North Carolina, at one point, had a large concentration of cellular technology companies. Today, some of that talent has come together around IoT.

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Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Frank Greer, CEO of Zipit Wireless (Part 1)

Let’s review some more IoT use-cases through Frank’s eyes.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of the Zipit story. Tell us a bit about the company. What do you do? How do you do what you do? Also, give us a bit of your background.

Frank Greer: I’m the CEO of Zipit Wireless. We’re a 10-year old company. We’re based in Greenville, South Carolina. We were a startup funded by VCs. We were spun out of a company almost 10 years ago. Our objective was to take our expertise and knowledge in cloud-based computing and remotely managing devices, and then apply that to what we felt was a thrilling business opportunity. >>>

Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Tom Bianculli, Vice President of Technology Office at Zebra Technologies (Part 1)

Further view into the use cases and trends in various verticals pertaining to IoT. This interviews looks at retail, transportation, and healthcare.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by having you introduce yourself as well as Zebra.

Tom Bianculli: I oversee the technology office here at Zebra Technologies. My team incubates new opportunities that are adjacent to the existing portfolio in the company. I’m acting as an internal startup. >>>

Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: John Horn, CEO of Ingenu (Part 1)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to you as well as to your company.

John Horn: I’m the CEO of Ingenu. We are a major player globally in the Internet of Things. When you look at the Internet of Things, all of the things need to be connected in order for there to be an Internet of Things. If there is no connectivity, there is no data path. There is no solution. A group of pioneers in this industry on the human side realized that the technology that exists for human communication was not good enough for machines.

What makes these devices that we hold on our hands wonderful is the fact that we want the newest, latest, and greatest. In the machine world, what companies need and solutions want is stability – long-term stability of network, long-term stability of technology, and long-term stability of the product itself. Founders of Ingenu created a technology called RPMA which stands for Random Phase Multiple Access. It takes the physical principles of cellular and turns them 180 degrees. It takes the weakness of cellular and makes them the strength of RPMA. >>>

Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Greenwave Systems CEO Martin Manniche (Part 1)

IoT is moving right along, here is a comprehensive discussion on some use cases and solutions from Greenwave Systems that are real and active.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Greenwave.

Martin Manniche: I’m the Chairman and CEO of Greenwave Systems. We’re a managed services platform company. We are located and headquartered in Irvine, California. We see ourselves as a global company. We have an Asian headquarters in Singapore. We have the European headquarters in Denmark and Scandinavia. We have branch offices in Korea, San Jose, and India.

More and more people in the telco space or people who build managed services platforms or have a managed network are looking to have a  horizontal-built platform. This is a platform where everyone can participate and build services one top of the platform without understanding anything else and how they are interfacing with an API and be able to build a user experience on top of that. >>>

Bootstrapping an IoT Company from North Carolina: Bob Witter, CEO of Device Solutions (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. 

North Carolina, at one point, had a large concentration of cellular technology companies. Today, some of that talent has come together around IoT.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of circumstances?

Bob Witter: I was born in Springville, New York. It’s in the western part of New York. I grew up in central New York. I went to school at State University of New York and graduated in 1981 with degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics. I started my career in Rochester with Eastman Kodak company in the medical products division that was brand new at that time. I learned a great deal about how to do medical products that has certainly served me well even today at Device Solutions. >>>

Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Colin Sutherland, Co-Founder of Geotab (Part 1)

There’s a ton of data being  generated through vehicle telematics that need apps to make sense of. Entrepreneurs looking for problems to solve – please read on!

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to you as well as to Geotab.

Colin Sutherland: I’m the Global Vice President of Sales and Marketing, and one of the Founders of Geotab. This is our 15^th year of being involved in what’s called the telematics industry, which is a technology that essentially moves the data from a vehicle’s location over a wireless method, and into the cloud, to enable fleets to better understand how their assets are being used in order to improve.

Sramana Mitra: What are the trends of the telematics space as it pertains to vehicles at this point?

Colin Sutherland: The industry reached a major milestone six years ago when, as a total collective, the industry became a billion dollar industry. That was a big milestone. Industry researchers have projected tremendous growth for the business. Overall, the industry has been growing 15% per year, but that doesn’t really tell the whole story. >>>

Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: John McDonald, CEO of CloudOne (Part 1)

CloudOne focuses on IoT applications as they pertain to the industrial engineering sector, primarily. Based in Indianapolis, in the heart of the manufacturing industry hub of the United States, the company caters to over 50 customers, and in this interview, John shares some examples and trends from the sector.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to CloudOne.

John McDonald: I’m the CEO of the company called CloudOne, which is based in Indiana. CloudOne was started in early 2010 and I was privileged to be one of the early leaders of the company. I did that after a long career at IBM – almost 20 years – where I led different entrepreneurial projects within the organization, mostly in the software space. I had the opportunity to get to know some of the early founders of CloudOne while I was still at IBM and was privileged to join them in 2010.

Sramana Mitra: What do you do in the company? >>>

Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: David Parker, Global Vice President, SAP (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: I have a specific question on what is the state of the union that you are seeing in your customer base with SAP. Are there large customers who are connecting up through these RFID/sensor devices with huge numbers of assets? If so, then which industry sectors are they in and, if you are authorized to give some names of customers who are going for big deployment, who are they?

I’ll give you the context of where I’m coming from. The main push back that I hear in the industry is, exposing so many assets to network devices means that there are surface areas that are being opened up to cyber security problems and breaches. If you look at retail for instance, if every item has an RFID device, then the surface area that is exposed to cyber threats is much higher. Based on my earlier conversations, there’s actually quite a bit of resistance in large customers to roll out Internet of Things. My question to you is what are you seeing from SAP’s vantage point?
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