By Thomas Been, DataStax

Constructing data-driven, high-growth companies takes a sure form of roll-up-your-sleeves, decided, and good builder who understands the significance of constructing a unified, foundational knowledge structure.

We name these folks Digital Champions. They’re visionaries in utilizing real-time knowledge and the cloud to ship unprecedented worth to their organizations and, in flip, to their prospects.

Final yr, we got down to determine enterprises and builders that construct highly effective, real-time purposes that outline the way forward for knowledge. They’ve deliberate and ready to scale to no matter demand their rising companies and prospects place upon them. Since we named our first batch of Digital Champions in November, this system has gained some vital momentum.

Our newest group of Digital Champions—SupPlant, K2View, and Ibexa—all hail from Europe and all have taken on massive challenges to guide their organizations to success with real-time knowledge.

SupPlant

Revital Kremer is grasping for knowledge. To the chief expertise officer of SupPlant, which provides farmers with important agronomic insights, the extra real-time climate, plant, soil, and water knowledge the corporate’s answer can collect, the larger the enhancements in crop yield and productiveness for patrons.

Nonetheless, as Kremer places it, accumulating knowledge is tough—particularly when it includes the number of sensors and broad vary of locales the place SupPlant’s prospects work. It’s an excellent factor she’s obsessed with what she does and attracts power from the power of expertise to unravel the world’s issues. Kremer has labored in quite a lot of sectors, from gaming to protection, however, as she put it not too long ago, “The agtech area, and SupPlant particularly, is the primary time I’ve constructed expertise that basically makes a distinction and will help farmers overcome water shortage and local weather adjustments.”

Kremer embodies the Digital Champion ethos, so we’re proud to honor her right here.

Be taught extra about why Supplant is a Digital Champion right here.

K2View

The workforce at K2View isn’t afraid of challenges (the corporate’s identify, in spite of everything, is a nod to the second tallest and notoriously difficult to climb mountain on the earth). The corporate permits giant enterprises—like AT&T, American Categorical, and Hertz—to realize 360-degree views of their prospects to foretell churn, fraud, and extra—all in real-time.

For K2View’s chief expertise officer Yuval Perlov’s profession climb by means of the telecom, e-commerce, and monetary sectors, there’s been at the least one constant problem: knowledge. So it’s no shock that he selected Apache Cassandra to offer the extraordinarily excessive throughput and rock-solid reliability required to construct a real-time knowledge platform for K2View’s prospects.

For the belief they’ve in-built bringing real-time knowledge to massive enterprises, K2View is an apparent option to earn the title of Digital Champion. 

Be taught extra about why K2View is a Digital Champion right here.

Ibexa

Nazariy Kostiv, senior Java engineer at Norway’s Ibexa, doesn’t have time to consider infrastructure. Not too long ago named the chief of the corporate’s Java workforce, Kostiv is intently centered on creating improvements for Ibexa’s Digital Expertise Platform, which permits prospects to construct personalized B2B e-commerce experiences.

Constructing real-time suggestion engines and different purposes at scale is how Kostiv and his workforce make an affect—not managing database assets. It’s one purpose Ibexa selected DataStax Astra DB. (“We don’t lose sleep over issues of node failure or different points,” as Kostiv places it).

From how they constructed new consumer experiences for a main movie show chain in Colombia to their work modernizing outdated web sites for the French authorities, Kostiv and the Ibexa workforce exemplify the data-driven, roll-up-your-sleeves method of the Digital Champion.

Be taught extra about why Ibexa is a Digital Champion right here.

Does your group match the Digital Champion mildew? Contact me to appoint a Digital Champion at this time!

About Thomas Been:

DataStax

Thomas leads advertising and marketing at DataStax. He has helped companies remodel with knowledge and expertise for greater than 20 years, in gross sales and advertising and marketing management roles at Sybase (acquired by SAP), TIBCO, and Druva.