Veeva provides Enterprise Cloud Software for Life Sciences Industry.
North Bridge Venture Partners: Future of Cloud Computing
Boston-based North Bridge and former North Bridge Growth Equity [re-branded GuidePost] actively partner with founders and entrepreneurs providing seed-to-growth financing for innovative companies looking to disrupt and reinvent big markets. The firm funded more than 170 companies creating many billions in market value. Among those firms are Acquia, Actifio, Cool Planet, Couchbase, Demandware, Mavenir Systems, Proto Labs, Reval and Starent Networks.
The Future of Cloud Computing thought leadership program was launched in 2010 by North Bridge with Gigaom Research as a key partner. 2016 was the 6th and final year for North Bridge’s leadership of this study. Its corollary program, the Future of Open Source program ran for 10 years and was then continued under a new brand, Black Duck 360.
The 2016 study was the largest ever and the program represents the industry’s deepest and broadest examination of the cloud technology revolution. It analyzed the inhibitors and drivers behind cloud adoption, separating the hype surrounding the cloud from genuine industry trends and real world cases across a sample of over 1,350 respondents, 60% of which were users and 20% from companies over 5000 employees. The program was vendor-agnostic and supported by cloud companies large and small. The final Webcast hosted by Silicon Angle (Wikibon) featured Stu Miniman, Holly Maloney McConnell, and Paul Gillin.
Wimba (a Blackboard company)
Combining the capabilities of industry leaders Wimba and Elluminate, Blackboard Collaborate provides a comprehensive online learning and collaboration platform designed specifically for education. It is helping thousands of higher education, K-12, professional, corporate, and government organizations worldwide deliver a more effective learning experience through blended and mobile learning online collaboration tools. And it will help you open up all-new aspects of real time, or anytime, learning to engage more students and improve outcomes.
North Bridge Venture Partners: Future of Open Source
Boston-based North Bridge (as of 2017 North Bridge Growth Equity re-branded as GuidePost) were active partners with entrepreneurs providing seed-to-growth financing for innovative companies looking to disrupt big markets. The firm funded more than 200 companies creating many billions in market value.
Program Overview: Over the course of its ten year history, The Future of Open Source program, has examined the issues and challenges facing CEO’s and CIO’s as Open Source evolved from a developer-centric toolkit to a business imperative.
The North Bridge led program examined the increased strategic role that open source plays in today’s enterprises, its crucial function within new technology development, and the growth of both first-time developers within the OSS community and the impact open source has in daily life. It also sought to predict where open source was headed and what are the emerging threads that are likely to become major trends in the future. The program engaged Black Duck as a partner in year five, and Forrester Research and contributing advisors from the North Bridge portfolio. In 2017, when North Bridge re-organized, Black Duck re-launched the study as a BlackDuck 360 Program.
Circles
Circles has revolutionized how corporations build life-long relationships with their customers and employees. By forging intimate relationships, our loyalty programs drive behaviors that drive increased profitability for our Fortune 1000 customers.
Founded in 1997, Circles delivers a disarmingly simple and unique key ingredient — the ability to get close to people. Circles believes that in the future the only loyalty programs companies will consider are those which have a measurable effect on their bottom line. Circles’ intimacy-based programs are the only ones that deliver on this promise today.