Razorsight CEO Charlie Thomas believes communications service providers have an opportunity to position themselves as key players in the cloud market by utilizing insight and infrastructure to meet user needs. Thomas told VanillaPlus magazine that CSPs can leverage cloud app-driven data and predictive analytics to gain knowledge on cloud user needs and …

Charlie Thomas has been leading Razorsight as chief executive since 2005 with over 20 years of industry experience in sales, marketing, finance, capital formation, mergers and acquisitions, and recruiting. He has co-founded several startups, helping establish investment bank Claris Capital in 2002 plus an Internet service provider (acquired by Verio), …

A regional business unit of Virgin Mobile has adopted a Razorsight-built analytics platform to carry out marketing campaigns and deliver services to customers. Razorsight said Wednesday it signed a multi-year agreement with Virgin Mobile Latin America for the network operator to implement the tool for operations in Chile, Colombia and Mexico. Peter …

Razorsight and IBM have partnered to deliver an analytics tool aimed to help drive the marketing strategy of mobile operators and address both customer expectations and business needs. Razorsight said Tuesday that IBM’s PureData for Analytics and SPSS offerings will leverage Razorsight Predictive Analytics to help mobile operators draw business insights such as the “Next Best Action” …

Push-to-talk technology firm Kodiak Networks has selected Razorsight‘s cloud analytics platform to help PTT service providers gain insight into customer behavior and improve user experience. Razorsight said Monday it will provide its Executive Insights and Real-Time Predictive Analytics technology to Kodiak Networks with the goal of helping that company’s mobile …

Chris Checco, president and chief analytics officer at Razorsight, believes analytics technology can help cloud service providers drive customer loyalty and identify new revenue opportunities. Checco discussed how the company’s analytics software product works to provide CSPs a full picture of the customer experience in order to reduce customer churn …

Chris Checco, president and chief analytics officer of Razorsight, says data science is growing its influence in business as companies continue adopting analytics products and finding more applications for insights generated from data. In an interview posted recently on the Data Science Weekly blog, Checco discussed how data science has been turning into a business …

Razorsight has signed a multi-year deal to provide cloud-based analytics offerings to an unnamed mobile communications provider. The new client will subscribe to RazorInsights for Marketing applications for predictive analytics, Razorsight said Monday. The mobile services firm provides offers data, voice, video and Internet services.

Razorsight has appointed four communications industry veterans to its board of advisers as the company looks to grow its cloud analytics offerings in the communications and media market. Geoffrey Axton, Norman Fekrat, Patricia Gottesman and Don Upson are the newest members of Razorsight’s advisory board, the company announced Tuesday. Axton …

Razorsight has launched a real-time predictive analytics mobile application for communications and media customers that is designed to help gain insights into customer experience. The app works to help business executives view and predict trends for potential churn and disruptions across markets, as well as to identify customer sentiment and upsell …

Razorsight has been named to the CIO Data Analytics 20, an award given annually by CIO Review Magazine to the “top 20 most promising data analytics companies” in the U.S. Winners of the award are chosen by the CIO Review editorial board and a panel of CEOs, CIOs, VCs, and analysts, according …

Chris Checco serves as president and chief analytics officer at Razorsight, the maker of cloud computing-based analytics tools for providers and other customers in the telecommunications industry with headquarters in Reston, Va. The more-than-16-year senior level executive joined Razorsight in 2012 after serving as lead management scientist for public sector …

This is the second part of an original post by Chris Checco, president and chief analytics officer at Razorsight, entitled: “Put Your Big Data to Work” Click here to read the first section of Checco’s post.       Do Your Homework Before you dive in, recognize that finding the right …

For close to the past nine years, Charlie Thomas has led Razorsight, the producer of cloud computing-based big data and predictive analytics tools for telecommunication firms, as the Reston, Va.-based firm’s CEO. Over that time, Thomas has grown Razorsight into an international firm with offices in Tokyo; Bangalore, India; and …

Publicly traded venture capital lender Horizon Technology Finance first established an office in the Washington area around a year ago and six deals later, Mid-Atlantic firms represent around 10 percent of its venture debt portfolio, Steven Overly wrote Aug. 11 in the Washington Post. Farmington, Conn.-based Horizon, which was founded …