A venture capital company would provide this kind of funding," says John Bates, head of industry solutions at Software AG.
"The same guests that walk through the hotel lobby are the same consumers Microsoft targets," said Sandra Andrews, hospitality industry solutions director for Microsoft.
She is a program manager at the company's industry solutions laboratory in Hawthorne, N.Y., where she specializes in computing geared toward companies doing work involving biology.
The bridegroom, 39, was until last spring the vice president for industry solutions at Ariba, a company in Sunnyvale, Calif., that develops business software.
The Advertising Research Foundation's online research quality council formed an industry solutions committee to be led by Mark Berry, executive vice president for business and consumer insights, Synovate, part of the Aegis Group; Tomas Emmers, consumer and marketing insights director, Unilever; and Anne Hedde, president and global chief executive, Lightspeed Research.
Wim Elfrink, executive vice president of industry solutions and chief globalisation officer of Cisco, heads up the company's smart cities team and warned that if cities did not give citizens the choice of whether or not to allow the government to use their data, they might opt-out of future initiatives.
While hybrid arrangements abound, industry solutions are still awkwardly matched to consumer preferences.
The Contract Logistics segment includes inbound, in-house, outbound, and after sales logistics, supply chain consulting, industry solutions, and packaging solutions.
Specifically, the company tells me, it plans to further innovate on its DocuSign digital transaction management platform and drive deeper vertical industry solutions.
