Enterprise Times

Luke Behnke is VP Product at Zendesk. Enterprise Times had the opportunity to discuss the Zendesk Sunshine platform with him at the recent Zendesk Showcase event in London. Zendesk alternately describe Sunshine as a platform and an unplatform. Behnke explains this and how Sunshine aims to fulfil the ‘beautifully simple’ principle that Zendesk has. At […]

Just before Benjamin Poernomo left IBM, he was in charge of the X-Force Cyber Tactical Operations Centre. This is a mobile unit that IBM created to help customers rehearse and test their disaster recovery plans. The mobile unit also doubles up as an on-site response unit that IBM can deploy when customer are dealing with […]

Getting any insight into the quality of code is challenging. Doing that in a world where everybody wants code yesterday is seen by many as almost impossible. Despite the increasing adoption of DevOps, Agile and phrases such as Shift-Left, faster code does not, necessarily, mean better code. Enterprise Times talked with Francesc Campoy, VP of […]

Dave Van Everen, Senior Vice President of Product Marketing, Mirantis talked to Enterprise Times at the Open Infrastructure conference about their latest announcements. One challenge that organisations face is how to get their cloud environments right. Before speaking to ET, Van Everen had just announced the Model Designer for Mirantis Cloud Platform at Open Infrastructure. […]

Enterprise Times recently talked with Aleksander Gorkowienko, Managing Consultant for Spirent Communications and part of the security labs. We talked about the problems of Industrial IoT (IIoT) and Operational Technology (OT). Many of the older systems sit alongside new system but they are often not managed by IT. Instead they are looked after by engineers […]

One of the downsides of companies gathering vast volumes of data is making sense of what it is and what it can do for you. Part of the problem is knowing what tool or tools you need. Do you need a better database? SQL or NoSQL? Relational database, object orientated (OO) database or distributed database? […]

At Pegaworld, Enterprise Times spoke to Melissa Harris, IT delivery director at Unum. Harris was tasked with deploying, or rather re-deploying RPA at the benefits provider Unum. She selected Pega for the second time in her career. She acknowledges though that different RPA solutions will suit different companies. Unum first looked at RPA to deliver […]

NTT Security recently published its Risk:Value 2019 report. It is the most extensive survey the company has conducted and, importantly, it focused on users not on the IT department. The goal was to get a business view on cyber security. The report certainly achieved its aim and shows that there is a significant disconnect between […]

A cyber security strategy has to encompass the entire company. For many businesses, it is a fragmented set of policies, procedures and approaches that are inconsistent across the company. It is also, far too often, something that is driven by IT or from different teams. At the NTT Security ISW event in Frankfurt, Mihoko Matsubara, […]

Peter van der Putten is the Director of Decisioning Systems at Pegasystems. Enterprise Times spoke to him during the PegaWorld conference where the company had announced the opening up of its platform to other AI engines. Some of the keynote was also dedicated to the rise of empathic AI. It is a concept that is […]

Penetration testing, ethical hacking and writing secure code are not new concepts, they’ve been around for decades. Despite this, the rate at which code vulnerabilities are reported continues to increase. Enterprise Times asked Rene Bader, Manager for Critical Business Applications & Big Data, NTT Ltd why this was. Bader believes that one of the problems […]

The Managed Security Services (MSS) market has seen significant growth over the last few years. As organisations struggle to find, retain and even afford cyber security staff, MSS providers are facing boom years. However, buying and selling MSS is very different to most technology solutions. To understand more about where MSS is and what makes […]

NTT Security has released its fifth annual Risk:Value report. The report focused on people outside of the IT function in order to understand how the business viewed cyber security. The results should send a sharp message to the C-Suite. While the IT function believes it has control over the problem, the business is far less […]

Developing a storage standard has always been a long, arduous and contentious process. It is the same for most standards. However, with the speed that technology is changing, that approach is no longer sustainable, and not just for storage. To understand what change means for the storage industry, Enterprise Times talked with Richelle Ahlvers. Ahlvers […]

There are several flavours of Salesforce Einstein and this podcast aims to demystify the different aspects of the Salesforce AI platform. Enterprise Times spoke to Julien Sauvage, Director of Product Marketing for Einstein at Salesforce and Leo Tenenblat, Product Manager for Einstein Platform at Salesforce at Salesforce World Tour London. Before the recording started ET […]

Recorded at PegaWorld this week, Kerim Akgonul, Senior Vice President, Products at Pega talks about the new Pega Low Code Factory. He reveals the three elements of the solution which are education, guidelines and tools. The Low Code factory delivers the ability for organisations to enable their employees to create applications than automate processes across […]

Josu Franco is the Strategy and Technology Advisor for Panda Security. His role is to look up to two years ahead to see what technologies and products Panda Security should be offering. At iPass 2019, Franco told the audience: “Malware is totally under control.” Franco agreed to talk to Enterprise Times in order to explain […]

Sage recently released a report into British manufacturing titled: Riding the wave of uncertainty. Rob Sinfield, VP, Enterprise Management, Sage talked to Enterprise Times about the report’s findings and what he believes is needed to make British manufacturing great again. The conversation looked at a wide range of issues. One area where Sinfield is seeing […]

At the itelligence annual conference, itelli2019 Enterprise Times spoke to Andy Steer, VP and Chief Technology Officer, itelligence Business Solutions UK Ltd. The conversation started with the question “Has SAP lost the battle of CRM with Salesforce”. Steer then talks about the recent acquisition by SAP of Qualtrics and how by enabling it to bring […]

The Apache Kafka summit was held in London last week. Kafka was originally designed to solve the problem of high volume and throughput at LinkedIn. This means that it is capable of scaling and dealing with asynchronous and message-driven environments. Enterprise Times went along and caught up with Kai Waehner, Technology Evangelist, Confluent. Waehner talked […]

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation is holding its annual European conference in Barcelona this week. Alongside the CNCF conference is KubeCon, a project that is part of the CNCF. Over 9,000 people are expected to attend making it the biggest conference CNCF and KubeCon has held. Enterprise Times got a chance to talk with Alexis […]

In this podcast, recorded at Epicor Insights, Himansu Palsule, CTO Epicor talks about the focus for Epicor looking forward and how UX and Artificial Intelligence are key to enhancing its different products. He also says that the horizontal applications such as EDI and DocStar are products in their own right. Palsule reveals how Epicor is […]

A10 Networks have published the findings of a survey into the deployment of 5G technology across the globe. Enterprise Times spoke to Gunter Reiss, Vice President of A10 Networks about the research report. He gave three reasons why it commissioned the survey. Reiss explained the first two saying. “What are these cases for 5G and […]

The OpenStack Foundation (OSF) has decided to make its own development tools available to a wider range of developers. These are all open source tools that have been used to build OpenStack and other projects. To date, they have only really been used by those close to OpenStack. The goal now is to widen the […]

Enterprise Times took the opportunity of talking to Vijay Sundaram, Chief Strategy Officer at Zoho about the strategy for Zoho and Zoho One specifically. Zoho has developed more than 45 different applications, in many cases market leading. At Zoholics in Austin, analysts questioned whether Zoho One is actually an ERP solution in disguise. It was […]