Super Bowl-bound 49ers Make Game-time Decisions On and Off the Field

January 31, 2013 by 1 Comment
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Roger CraigThree-time 49ers Super Bowl champion, four-time Pro Bowl player, First-Team All-Pro and NFL’s Offensive Player of the Year in 1988 – running back Roger Craig knows the importance of being able to make real-time decisions on and off the field. In that 1988 season, he rushed for a career-high 1,502 yards, made 76 receptions and scored double-digit touchdowns.

Three years earlier, in 1985, he led the NFL in receptions, a feat that had never been accomplished before by a running back. That same year he was also the first player in league history to record 1,000 rushing and 1,000 receiving yards in the same season. How did he do it? By understanding, anticipating, and acting on plays and events just moments before they occurred – to score the winning touchdown.

“My belief in the two-second advantage grows constantly stronger because I witness its success, both on and off the field. Training HARD in the off-season gave me my two-second advantage with the 49ers. When my opponents got weaker as the game and the season wore on, I just got stronger. My body wouldn’t get tired because my mind was strong. This strength was stored in my mental database and was impossible to erase. The team this year will have success if they believe in the Harbaugh system. They need to study the Ravens, know their assignment, know their alignment and execute. That will be their two-second advantage. It’s going to be a great game.”

- Roger Craig, Three-time Super Bowl Champion, and TIBCO VP of Business Development  [Read more...]

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A Look Back: Vivek Ranadivé and TIBCO

January 25, 2013 by 3 Comments
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At the age of 17, with just two months worth of money in his pocket, Vivek Ranadivé left his home in Bombay for the United States. He dreamed of attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) after watching a documentary in India years earlier. He was able to earn a bachelor’s and master’s degree from MIT in Electrical Engineering, and later an MBA from Harvard.

Once out of school, Ranadivé decided to start his own information technology company. Disappointed in the inefficiencies in software development as compared to hardware, he developed technology that would deliver electronic information to users in real time through a centralized bus. He became “Mr. Real Time” when he first built “The Information Bus,” or TIB, a software version of the staple computer bus concept for hardware.

With a prototype TIB under construction, Ranadivé put his business degree from Harvard to use and sought start-up capital in northern California. He received seed capital from Teknekron Corp in 1985 and Teknekron Software Systems Inc. (TSS) was born. Ranadivé turned to faculty at MIT and hired talented staff from nearby Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley.

TSS found initial success creating software infrastructure that integrated and delivered market data to trading rooms at Goldman Sachs and then many large banks and other financial organizations. Teknekron created the “trading floor of the future,” eventually digitizing all of Wall Street.

For more on Vivek Ranadivé and how vision became a reality, watch this short YouTube biography.

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TUCON 2012 Kicks Off: Everything Really IS Different

September 25, 2012 by 1 Comment
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TIBCO’s TUCON 2012 kicked off this morning with the theme, “Everything is Different.” From the start, the areas of Digital Customer Experience Management, Big Data, Social and Consumerization took center stage, beginning with the opening address by TIBCO founder and CEO Vivek Ranadivé.

While You Were Sleeping

Vivek talked about how to make the worst of times into the best of times, a reprise of his video discussion found on Forbes. He drew parallels with Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities” opening words: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” This was a great description of where business finds itself today. The key to thriving in these times is to deliver extreme value and to reinvent yourself and your enterprise for the 21st century, he told the packed event.

Chief Marketing Officer Raj Verma

Chief Marketing Officer Raj Verma continued with the TIBCO vision that establishes customer experience management as a critical business imperative for every company on the planet. He talked about the switch from analog to digital marketing and what that means to the modern enterprise.

Raj took the audience through the significant expansion of the digital customer experience, from the fact that iPhone sales outpaced the growth of the human population, that 4.7 billion minutes were spent on Facebook and that 22 million hours of video were streamed on Netflix, all while we slept last night.

Before leaving the stage, Raj laid out the TIBCO two-second advantage™, the ultimate goal of his event-enabled customer, delivered through automation, events, analytics, cloud and social. He described the TIBCO platform as tightly integrated and loosely coupled… a big advantage for organizations trying to find the right partner to excel during these times. [Read more...]

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Is It A Good Time To Start A Company?

July 24, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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Did you know that 16 of the 30 companies that make up the current Dow Jones Industrial Average started in a recession? With potential customers thinking outside the box, plenty of affordable talent, and more cost-conscious buyers focusing on value over brand, it’s actually a good time to start a business.

TIBCO founder and CEO Vivek Ranadivé weighs in on Forbes.com.

 

 

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