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Make Data Work
March 5–6, 2018: Training
March 6–8, 2018: Tutorials & Conference
San Jose, CA

Harnessing the cloud to enable connected systems and self-service and accelerate business growth (sponsored by Talend)

Jeff Smits (RingCentral)
1:50pm–2:30pm Thursday, March 8, 2018
Sponsored
 Location: LL21 A

What you'll learn

  • Learn how RingCentral utilizes the cloud, data integration, self-service, and APIs to harvest the immense potential of connected systems

Description

In an increasingly diverse world of systems, data sources, and devices, the cloud has become a mission-critical vehicle for helping businesses scale, increase agility, and enable more pervasive access to data to fuel informed decision making. Jeff Smits explains how RingCentral is utilizing the cloud, data integration, self-service, and APIs to harvest the immense potential of connected systems. By automating the mining of production operations, building sophisticated workflows between applications, and maintaining system synchronization, Ring Central has a more complete view of enterprise information. In turn, it can deliver data as a service, empower more informed decision making, and accelerate business growth.

This session is sponsored by Talend.

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Jeff Smits

RingCentral

Jeff Smits is vice president of IT and business services at RingCentral. Jeff has been building enterprise solutions since he started his Silicon Valley career at HP and has held vice president of 
IT roles at companies including Salesforce, McAfee, and DocuSign. He is passionate about operational excellence and empowering users through cloud computing. Having run big data, BI development, and data warehouses at several companies, Jeff brings an appreciation for how companies harvest the value of their data assets. He is focused on driving value quickly and making it easy for the business to scale. Jeff takes a special interest in enabling decision makers and connecting systems.