ArchiTECHt’s Derrick Harris has published an in-depth Q&A-style article with Tom Siebel that reveals the C3.ai CEO’s inspiration for building the C3 Platform‚ the new technologies that have made such computational power possible‚ and the business problems being solved today with next-generation AI and IoT applications.

Why Thomas Siebel made the move from CRM to industrial IoT (and back again?)

Derrick Harris‚ ArchiTECHt‚ Feb. 3‚ 2017

Thomas Siebel is best known for his namesake CRM company Siebel Systems‚ which he co-founded in 1993 and sold to Oracle in 2005 for nearly $6 billion‚ but these days Siebel is focused on the Internet of Things.

I spoke with him recently about his latest venture‚ C3.ai‚ and how cloud computing and big data are making IoT a possibility—at least for the large enterprises he’s currently targeting…

Read the full article here: https://architecht.io/why-thomas-siebel-made-the-move-from-crm-to-industrial-iot-and-back-again-eb40bb2baf7a#.2qagee97k