Enterprise Times

The world of passenger transportation is changing. ET spoke to Ian McDonald, Senior Business Analyst of iCabbi at Oracle OpenWorld. iCabbi is a software company for taxi firms that you might use but haven’t heard of. It is a fast growing startup that develops booking and dispatch software for the Taxi and Private Hire industry. From […]

At Workday Rising in Barcelona, ET spoke to Karen Minicozzi, Vice President, Pre-sales, Workday. Workday had just completed its annual survey and revealed a 98% customer satisfaction rating. We talked about how Workday looks at engagement with customers from pre-sales through to the in-life experience. Minicozzi gives some insights about how Workday manages that lifecycle and how […]

Enterprise Times caught up with Praveen Asthana, CMO at Forcepoint on his 100th day at the company.  We spoke about what brought him to Forcepoint and in what direction he will take their marketing. He also revealed where Forcepoint are finding their new talent from.  He talked about the challenges of being a CMO and […]

Julian Meyrick is Vice President for Security, IBM Europe. IBM has been sponsoring cybersecurity training courses for military veterans. It is part of their Corporate Social Responsibility programmes. It started in the US where 1,000 people have been trained and has now reached the UK. Every month, Salute My Job selects 10 military veterans, IBM […]

Earlier this year, Enterprise Times spent some time with the Corsham Institute looking at the work it was doing with retraining military veterans into cybersecurity roles. During the day, ET was able to sit down with Rachel Neaman, CEO of the Corsham Institute. During the discussion Neaman talked about the challenges of skills gaps across […]

John Petrie is the Global CISO of NTT Security. On a recent trip to London to meet with all the CISO’s across the NTT group of companies, Petrie sat down with Enterprise Times to talk about the challenges of the role. Petrie faces some unique challenges. NTT Security is just one year old and is […]

ET spoke to Craig Sullivan, Group Vice President, Product Management, NetSuite at NetSuite Next Ready Business Tour in London. He talks about the challenges of internationalisation in his role at NetSuite and for other organisations. He retells an anecdote about how watching TV in a new country gives him an initial understanding of the culture. He also […]

Enterprise Times spoke to Dermot O’Kelly, Senior Vice President and Country Leader, UK, Ireland and Israel, Oracle at Oracle Openworld. In this brief podcast he shares his views on how different the UK market is to the US market, or isn’t. O’Kelly also talks about a “hell of a proposition” when explaining the autonomous database. He also […]

At SuiteConnect in Oracle Openworld Enterprise Times spoke to Evan Goldberg, founder of NetSuite and EVP, Development, Oracle NetSuite. Fresh from his keynote he spoke about the direction that NetSuite is now taking as part of the larger company. Goldberg also spoke about the autonomous database that Larry Ellison announced, security and blockchain. Specifically how […]

Mridula Sori, Principal Analyst, development lead at NHS Improvement talks about how Alteryx has helped the NHS deliver an award winning solution in the NHS. Many of the challenges faced by the NHS are similar to those in complex businesses. There are disparate data sets and an array of external factors that can determine how […]

Peter Janssens, Global FP&A Director Operations & Supply Chain at Cargill talks about how Alteryx has made a difference. Cargill is a global privately-owned corporation. It operates in the food, agriculture, nutrition and risk management businesses. In this podcast Janssens discusses how he introduced a strategy he calls FBI – for Finance Business Intelligence. Cargill […]

Dan Jeavons, General Manager, Advanced Analytics Centre of Excellence, Shell talks about how analytics is changing the company. We spoke to Jeavons at Alteryx Inspire after he gave a presentation the deployment of the analytics platform at Shell (see image above). Jeavons spoke about how analytics is now becoming embedded within Shell. He also spoke how the […]

Enterprise Times caught up with Fred Studer at the FinancialForce offices in London. Studer joined FinancialForce just over six months ago. So what are the challenges he now faces? They include authenticity, brand and how inbound and outbound marketing has changed. He also revealed the tools that he uses as a modern marketer working in […]

At the Jenkins World 2017 conference, Sacha Labourey, CEO, CloudBees took time out to talk to Enterprise Times about some of their announcements and what was happening in DevOps. He talked about the new DevOptics release and the forthcoming Jenkins Advisor product. The goal is to deliver best practice and analytics to improve how DevOps […]

On a recent visit to New York, Enterprise Times caught up with Brian Berns, CEO, Knoa Software. The conversation focused on the use of user analytics as it applies to the use of enterprise software. This is not a new topic and one that has been around for several decades. However, it is fair to […]

Enterprise Times recently caught up with Brian Kuhn, Chief Digital Officer, OVH USA when he visited the UK VMware vCloud Air offices. While OVH has been talking about its US company for over a year, Kuhn pointed out that nothing really started until earlier this year. That means that the entire Go To Market (GTM) […]

Enterprise Times sat down with JR Rivers, Co-Founder and CTO of Cumulus Networks to talk about networking. It’s a challenging part of the IT stack that has probably evolved far more than any other area. It is also an area that is constantly being redefined as companies move more and more data around and look to […]

On a recent visit to Boston in the USA, Enterprise Times spent time with Tatu Ylonen, founder of SSH and inventor of the SSH protocol. We sat and talked about the state of enterprise security, the need for encryption and the way that encryption security keys are handled. What is interesting is that the conversation […]

As part of Enterprise Times’ recent road trip across the USA we stopped off in Minneapolis to visit Code42. We sat down and talked with John Durant, Chief Technology Office and SVP. Durant talked about the challenges organisations face when scaling up their patching processes. It is a major headache for many organisations. Recent malware and […]

During a recent visit to San Antonio, Enterprise Times was lucky enough to catch up with Major Hayden, Principal Architect, Rackspace. We were interested in what he thought about the current state of cloud security and in particular how mature customers were. It was a very interesting conversation especially when it came to the expectations […]

At Epicor Insights, Enterprise Times caught up with Lisa Pope, Executive Vice President, Digital Transformation and Cloud Evangelist. Having moved from Infor, we were keen to find out what Pope was bringing to Epicor. One area in particular was of interest to us and that was cloud, especially given Pope’s experience of bringing cloud computing to several […]

DevOps has become a hot topic over the last two years. The challenge for many organisations is how to implement it. There are several options but choosing the right one is not simple. Many organisations start out trying to just smooth the friction between their developers and operations teams. This might sound a good compromise […]

Enterprise Times sat down with Andy Fawcett at the FinancialForce Community Live event in Las Vegas recently.  We spoke about the importance of API’s to FinancialForce. He also spoke about the new era of Wave analytics that FinancialForce is about to bring to the market along with Einstein and Watson. With the news about ADP […]

At IBM InterConnect in Las Vegas, Enterprise TImes had an opportunity to catch up with Sebastian Krause, General Manager, IBM Cloud Europe. Over the last two years, IBM has been moving its messaging to position Hybrid Cloud as its key cloud offering. At IBM InterConnect, it changed the definition of hybrid cloud. This, it claims, has […]

Enterprise Times recently visited Forcepoint’s HQ in Austin, Texas where we got to sit down with Chief Scientist, Dr Richard Ford and talk cybersecurity. It was an interesting conversation that looked at WannaCry and the failure of many companies to stop thinking of a physical perimeter around their network. We talked about a range of […]