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Rent a tent: Camping gear marketplace startup aims to crack the code for outdoor equipment rental

GeekWire

The Seattle startup is gearing up to scale beyond its Western Washington roots, with plans to roll out its lend-to-own program and raise venture capital. The platform matches renters with lenders who have gear like tents, bikes, and stand-up paddleboards. The bootstrapped startup is gearing up to scale beyond Western Washington.

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GeekWire Awards: Community nominations now open, new categories added

GeekWire

We’re gearing up to celebrate the very best of the Pacific Northwest innovation community with the return of the GeekWire Awards , presented by Wave Business. But before we choose the winners across more than a dozen categories, we need your help. Community nominations open today, and run through April 2. Next Tech Titan.

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Sunny Gupta on Apptio’s lightbulb moment, and the key questions behind the tech company’s success

GeekWire

But it was that question, during a 2007 conversation with a CIO at a large financial firm, that got his entrepreneurial gears going again. ” Gupta set out to solve that problem with Apptio, which helped companies get a handle on their software spending and pioneered a new category called “Technology Business Management.”

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Analyze This! Cisco Spends $3.7B To Buy AppDynamics

Forrester IT

Current CEO Chuck Robbins shifted this strategy into high gear. Read more Categories: APM. · Cisco's strategy is to grow from being a networking vendor to an enabler of their customers' digital business, originally stated by ex-CEO John Chambers. IT Infrastructure & Operations. infrastructure & operations.

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What are decision support systems? Sifting data for better business decisions

CIO Business Intelligence

Whereas BI is a broad category of applications, services, and technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing, and accessing data for decision-making, DSS applications tend to be more purpose-built for supporting specific decisions. XLSTAT is an Excel data analysis add-on geared for corporate users and researchers. Data-driven DSS.

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Inside BrickCon 2023, where serious LEGO geeks have been building for this moment

GeekWire

Models are shown in a variety of categories, including Sci-Fi, Art, History, Fantasy, Town & Country, and Function. His own colorful take on the Disney theme parks boat ride “It’s a Small World” features several boats riding on “water” that is moving on LEGO train tracks, gears and other hidden mechanisms.

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How Student Performance Tracking Helps Teachers Provide Individualized Instruction

Kitaboo

Student Outcome Forecasting Student tracking systems are also geared to provide teachers with a fairly accurate forecast of student performance in the upcoming modules and lessons based on historical data. This data is kept organized based on the level, year, class, curriculum, or any other category that teachers specify.

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