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Besides airports, find out where else Clear subscribers will be cutting the line
Everyone knows the importance of security in crowded public spaces, but that doesn’t stop them from bemoaning every minute they stand in line at the airport. “Up until now, any time you want to increase security, it diminishes the consumer experience,” said Ken Cornick, co-founder, president and chief financial officer of Clear (by Alclear LLC). Clear ...
Software (and bikes and guitars) as a service: Subscription economy proof points
Judging by the profits of Uber Technologies Inc., Netflix Inc. and other businesses that replace asset ownership with on-demand services, consumers are buying (or leasing) into the subscription economy. The trade-off for foregone ownership is freedom, according to Tien Tzuo (pictured), founder and chief executive officer of Zuora Inc. Businesses operating on the subscription model need ...
Are subscriptions helpful attendants to wearable HealthTech?
Thync Global Inc. U.S.A. sells a wearable stress-reducing device for $149. But to actually use it, customers must pay a subscription fee every month. Is it overkill or a helpful nudge to get people to take their vitamins? “It’s about supporting and promoting this kind of continuous, regular use and routines,” said Dr. Sumon Pal (pictured), ...
747 as a service: how GE customers benefit from subscription services
Digital software like data analytics services are transforming the way industrial assets are built, maintained and operated, according to Gytis Barzdukas (pictured), vice president and head of product management, Predix, at GE Digital LLC. A growing number of GE customers are requesting subscription services, Barzdukas said during Zuora Subscribed 2017 in San Francisco, California. “It allows you to experiment,” ...
The ironic horizontal strategy behind Infor’s industry-vertical apps
Industry-vertical applications are Infor Inc.’s theme this year, but the company didn’t arrive there just by marinating in a few hand-selected industries. “We dive very deep into key industries, but then we look at them holistically,” said Dan Barnhardt (pictured), vice president of corporate communications at Infor. Infor cross-pollinates knowledge gleaned from diverse industries across its business ...
Infor president says it’s fastest-growing enterprise cloud company in the world
How hungry are enterprises for industry-specific cloud applications? By honing such solutions, Infor Inc. grew its cloud revenue 60 percent last year, according to Stephan Scholl (pictured), president at Infor Inc. “We were, at the enterprise scale, the fastest-growing cloud company in the world,” Scholl said in an interview today at Inforum 2017 in New ...
ERP leaves homebase with Infor’s new Networked CloudSuites
Enterprise resource planning software is usually confined to the activity within an organization’s four walls. When products or services inevitably flow out to partners and customers, who or what keeps track of them? “Our belief was you should extend that [ERP] and encompass an entire network,” said Duncan Angove (pictured), president of Infor Inc. This vision ...
Infor’s AI efforts sincere, but not killing enterprise complexity yet, say analysts
Separating “AI washing” from true artificial intelligence is turning into a full-time job for tech analysts. How do Infor Inc.’s new enterprise AI goods weigh against its marketing? “There’s a lot of substance behind what they’re doing at Infor that sets them apart from their competitors in the [enterprise resource planning] space,” said James Kobielus (@jameskobielus) ...
AWS and Infor leverage AI, deep learning to enhance cloud’s value proposition
The value of a virtualized cloud environment has as much to do with what you put into it as what you get out of it, according to Terry Wise (pictured), vice president of worldwide alliances, channels and ecosystem at Amazon Web Services Inc. “Cloud is not just about cheap compute and storage. It’s really about platform and ...
SaaS vendors could court enterprise AI if Facebook and Google don’t cut in, say analysts
Any company bringing out machine learning or artificial intelligence software better double check to see if someone else has already patented their idea. “It’s a very competitive race,” said James Kobielus (@jameskobielus) (pictured, left), co-host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during Inforum 2017 in New York today. Kobielus sized up the horses on the ...