Company Stories

A great hotel experience comes as a result of the hard work of the hotel employees. These hospitality heroes work around the clock to make sure that accommodations are fully prepared to meet the needs of their guests, always aiming to have their service and facilities exceed expected industry norms. That said, in the hotel […]

In 1991, entrepreneur Mark J. Williams was operating Professional Services, Inc. This company specialized in call center outsourcing and consulting services.  Customers would call, and—because of the lengthy wait—would be put on hold. In response to this, Mark wanted to create a virtual call queue so that customers didn’t have to be glued to their […]

The dream of tech startups is to achieve a legendary level of success. The term “unicorn” has been used in the last decade to describe this level of achievement. When a business has earned a valuation over $1B, it reaches a status beyond its founder’s wildest imagination.  Not unlike the appearance of the mythical, horned […]

HCA Healthcare is a Fortune 100, investor-owned healthcare system that was founded by physicians more than 50 years ago. The company is one of the nation’s leading providers of healthcare services, comprising 187 hospitals and approximately 2,000 sites of care. This includes surgery centers, freestanding ERs, urgent care centers, and physician clinics in 20 states […]

Data science techniques applied in healthcare can zoom in and help medical experts predict individual patient journeys or zoom out to illuminate health risk across large populations.  Firing on all cylinders, Nashville’s Decode Health (Decode) is a data analytics company that sells access to custom-built AI and predictive intelligence. Decode uses these tools to capture […]

Large scale decisions for hospitals require tremendous strategic planning. This ensures not only the financial prosperity of the hospital, but improved quality of life for patients. The hospital corporations making these decisions need agile technology partners. In this case, “agility” means that these partners must be able to process data and make sense of what’s […]

Technology work is attracting all sorts of people to Nashville.  One of them is Lerry Wilson, who spent almost 30 years in Silicon Valley. Lerry works for Splunk, a leading cloud data platform provider serving more than 90 of the Fortune 100 with thousands of employees. He explains, “We are the industry leader in taking […]

Ideally, investing for retirement would provide high yields with a painless process. However, the many regulatory requirements, less-than-stellar investments, and processes that are unnecessarily complicated can hinder and confuse those planning for their golden years.  Disrupting the retirement investment space, Alto IRA (Alto) was founded in 2015 and launched its initial service in April 2018. […]

Many standalone healthcare facilities go without the luxury of having an in-house data science team. How then, can they take advantage of all of the data produced by the electronic medical records (EMR) of a patient?  Founded in 2013, XSOLIS is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider. A technology partner of Humana, the company offers real-time medical […]

According to MTSU’s State of Middle Tennessee Tech 2020 Report, Black employees make up 11 percent of the region’s tech workers. Given the demand for and desirability of these jobs, it seems that work in tech may be what makes Nashville an appealing place to live and work for Black Americans searching for a new […]