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Incorta hires Wael Fakharany to lead international expansion
SAN MATEO, CA – Incorta, the real-time analytics platform has announced that it hired international sales executive Wael Fakharany as vice president and general manager of its operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
Fakharany will drive go-to-market strategies and operations in EMEA for Incorta, including development of the company’s first international channel sales model globally.
Prior to Incorta, Fakharany spent only six months with Careem as Managing Director Egypt, after nine years with Google EMEA, where he held several senior roles: regional lead for Google X, a semi-secret technology division dedicated to making the world a better place by developing radical solutions – such as driverless cars – to today’s huge problems; head of Google Middle East and Africa; and head of Google Egypt. Fakharany also previously held channel and sales management roles with Oracle Egypt, IBM Egypt, and 3Com Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
“Wael possesses exactly the right attitude, energy, and experience to lead our international expansion,” said OSAMA ELKADY, chief executive officer and co-founder of Incorta.”We were immediately impressed by his natural, seemingly effortless ability to architect deals that benefit everyone involved. That’s an incredibly rare, must-have skill when developing a channel sales model. Add to that his vast experience building successful go-to-market strategies for innovative new technologies, and you have a skillset that’s tough to beat.”
Incorta’s enterprise analytics technology lets organizations make faster, better-informed decisions that improve business results. With Incorta, analysts no longer struggle to manually analyze business data and are freed from using analytical tools that slow to a crawl when faced with billions of rows of data.
“Traditional enterprise analytic tools force end users to involve a developer, then a data architect, and then a data analyst every time they want to create or modify a report,” said Fakharany.
“By the time the report reaches the end user, information is outdated, and it’s likely the business need already has changed. Incorta turns this stunted model on its head. It lets business users immediately access and utilize their data on their own, in a self-service manner, in real-time. I’m excited to recruit and educate partners on this modern analytics platform, which allows them to help clients unleash hidden insights within their data in order to better improve operational performance and differentiate from competitors.”
Incorta’s Direct Data Mapping™ engine aggregates large, complex business data in real time, eliminating the need for costly join operations. This innovative approach is the first of its kind and the only one to deliver true “information freedom” by enabling ad-hoc, self-service analytics. Incorta customers who rely on Direct Data Mapping to gain secure, sub-second access to meaningful business insight include one of the three largest consumer electronics companies, a top 10 U.S. university, Broadcom, StitchFix, and Toast.
Fakharany concluded,
“Technology is something I’m passionate about and something that always fascinated me as a young boy growing up in a middle-class family in Egypt. It’s incredible what Incorta does — empowering any user on any device at any time to answer any business question. With its revolutionary approach, Incorta is well-positioned to meet any and all future expectations for enterprise analytics, which I expect to change drastically over the next few years.”
This news comes on the heels of several major announcements from Incorta. In the past five months, Incorta:
completed a $10 million Series A round of financing led by GV (formerly Google Ventures);
added three industry leaders to its advisory board — Google head of user growth and analytics Ken Rudin, former Oracle chief financial officer Jeff Epstein, and former Informatica executive vice president and chief marketing officer Margaret (Marge) Breya; and
hired former EMC/RSA and Ionic Security veteran Mike Rogers to lead global sales.
Fakharany holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronic Engineering from Cairo University.
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Putin, Obama war on social media starts with unfriend on Facebook
New stage of the cold war, is it?
The Social media war between Putin and Obama started with UnFriend, this is the action taken by Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the Facebook diplomacy with American president Barack Obama.
The unfriending comes after an official White House update about the possibility of a US-Syrian war. President Putin revealed that Obama’s updates about the Congressional debate on a possible war with Syria have annoyed him.
After unfriending, President Putin update status on profile “Something I should have done a long time ago”
Also, He said to Russia’s Pravda News Service “President Assad and I, we are the Facebook friends. We like the same pages, we share pictures of cute women and all that. Obama needs to lighten up on there, it’s not for serious stuff,”
President Obama’s latest posts about the possibility of the war in Syria have been reported by someone and he received a warning from Facebook that he will be prevented from posting on his profile for 24 hours.
He has also commented “Really, Putin needs to grow up. If he didn’t like that [post], he could have just hid it from his news feed instead of creating all this Facebook drama,”
JOE BIDEN “Vice President of the United States” announced to reports that President Obama has signed into his Twitter account to unfollow Putin.
The turmoil generated between Putin and Obama over their dispute on the Syrian crisis. Expanded to reach the social networks
Putin and Obama on social Networks
The question now is, are we witnessing a new stage of the cold war between the two countries, will they continue the war online instead of the military tactics and old spy war?
It’s obvious that social media is really changing the game in everything, and now it’s taking over on a very high level.
Keep an eye on Digital Boom and we will keep you posted with more news and updates on the cold war and even more…
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Amr Diab Gets Hacked on Twitter
Amr Diab’s Facebook page has announced that his twitter account has been hijacked by anonymous and now tweeting political.
Update: Amr Diab’s Facebook Page announced that “Amr Diab’s Twitter account has been restored successfully and you can follow Amr’s tweets normally now”
Amr Diab got hacked on Twitter
On Thursday 9th of Jan, Amr Diab’s Facebook page announced that Amr Diab’s Twitter account has been hacked by anonymous and now tweeting politics!
Amr Abdul-Basset Abdul-Azeez Diab (born 11 October 1961) is an Egyptian singer and composer of pop music. He was awarded the World Music Award for Best Selling Middle East Artist, three times: 1998 for the album “Nour El Ain”, 2002 for the album “Aktrr Wahid Byhbak 2001” and 2007 for the album “El Lillady”. Amr Diab also won The African Music Awards 2009, Big Apple Music Awards; Life Achievements Awards: Best Singer of The Year in 2009, and Best Male Act in African Music Awards 2010.
He is known as the Father of Mediterranean Music He has created his own style which is often termed “Mediterranean Music” or “Mediterranean Sound”, a blend of Western and Egyptian rhythms.
In The Mediterranean in Music, David Cooper and Kevin Dawe referred to his music as “the new breed of Mediterranean music”.According to author Michael Frishkopf, Amr Diab has produced a new concept of Mediterranean music, especially in his international hit, “Nour El Ain”.
In his analysis of The Very Best of Amr Diab album, Victor W. Valdivia of All music said: “His music melded traditional Arabic sounds and textures with Western rhythms and instruments. The mesh was dubbed Mediterranean music, and The Very Best of Amr Diab displays Diab’s superb skill in creating it.”
In 1997, he won three awards at the Annual Arabic Festival: one for Best Video, for Best Song, and for Best Artist of the Year. Diab received a Triple Platinum Award for the sales of Nour El Ain and a World Music Award in Monaco.
After the success of the previously shared overall analysis of Sherine’s new album “Ana Keter” and her social media presence, we decided to fulfill your requests with more details and additional insights.
The report is from Jan 15 through Jan 31, 2014; however, starting Feb, we noticed that Sherine’s team has enhanced and developed how they engage with fans on Facebook.
Still, there’s more to do; please review the slides below to know what exactly they are missing with recommendations.
Check out the report:
Key take-outs in 15 days after the launch:
- Album gained 11 million views in 2 weeks on YouTube
- YouTube Channel subscribers boosted by 90K subscribers in 15 days out of 127K total subscribers overtime
- Buzz reached 15K tweets/RTs since the launch on Twitter
- How do people talk about the album/Sherine on Twitter?
- People are sharing songs from YouTube & SoundCloud
- +90% positive sentiment on Twitter
- Sherine’s Twitter account is excellent at spreading the news about the album’s success.
- People are tweeting the song’s lyrics.
- Sarcastic tweets about Sherine & few songs (regular) - Almost zero negativity about the album
- Album teasers on Facebook created credibility for Sherine’s page, reflected in the page results after the album’s launch in the next 15 days with 92K Interactions & 312K New Likes.
- The album received tremendous engagement on the launching date of Jan 15. However, no posts for four days after the launch negatively affected the interactions.
Recommendations:
Sherine Abdel Wahab’s Facebook page would have received double or maybe triple new likes and interactions if the improved posts’ quality; please find below the points taken:
- Long updates with no extra value-added will lead to losing your fans’ interest
- The text-only format isn’t preferred, as it is well-known that they generate less reach than other content (Facebook announcement)
- A call to action is essential to generate leads & increase engagement
- Each post has to have its visual, audio, or video so you can attract/engage your audiences
- Understand the situation and act upon it, always be relevant to the time and avoid posting irrelevant content at the wrong time.
- Revise the tone of voice in future activities.
To recap - Overall performance is average to good - Enhance your content formatting - Improve the tone of voice on all networks - Be creative to engage your fans better - Be Consistent - Start your SoundCloud account.
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