Enterprise Times

Enterprise Times dropped in to see Cloudtenna who recently launched their AI solution for the enterprise file search market. We managed to get some time with Cloudtenna co-founder, Aaron Ganek to talk about the wider AI market and what his company is up to. Cloudtenna is targeting the problem of file sprawl across on premise, […]

GridGain is holding its In-Memory Computing Summit Europe 2018 in London this week. A few weeks ago, Enterprise Times went to see Terry Erisman, VP of Marketing at GridGain Systems. ET was interested in what is happening in the in-memory space. For most people, the technology is associated with speeding up databases. ET wanted to […]

Enterprise Times spoke to Mark Brandau Vice President Solution Management, SAP SuccessFactors at SuccessConnect this week. In a wide-ranging discussion, we covered a gamut of subjects with the exception of blockchain. The recently launched Candidate Relationship Management functionality was the first topic covered. ET asked why SAP SuccessFactors is launching it now. We also discussed […]

Enterprise Times had the opportunity to talk to Himanshu Palsule, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Epicor at the recent Epicor Insights event in Nashville. We asked him about the decision to move to Microsoft Azure for the Epicor Manufacturing and Distribution products. It boiled down to three things, although Palsule was careful in the language […]

Enterprise Times spoke to Sanj Bhayro, SVP – EMEA Commercial Sales at Salesforce at the recent Salesforce World Tour event in London.  Sanj Bhayro spoke about how small businesses are finding that their challenges are being met. CRM has moved on from ten years ago according to Bhayro when it was more about managing customer contacts. […]

At PegaWorld 2018 in Las Vegas, Enterprise Times sat down with Dr Rob Walker, Vice President Decisioning and Analytics at Pegasystems. We talked about what was happening with AI at Pega especially given its announcement of one-to-one marketing. Walker said: “We are nowhere near an artificial general intelligence or anything like that. But on the other […]

At PegaWorld 2018, Kerim Akgonul, Senior Vice President Products, Pegasystems, announced Pega Infinity. Enterprise Times was interested in why Pega had moved away from its history of products to a single suite. Akgonul says that it is about helping customers be more effective in how they engage with their customers, the end consumers, across the […]

At PegaWorld 2018, Pegasystems introduced the Pega Blockchain Innovation Kit. Unlike many other companies, it isn’t expecting its customers to work out blockchain on their own. In the Blockchain Innovation Kit it has provided templates and a sample smart contract. These are aimed at its banking and finance customers doing KYC and CLM. The goal […]

Enterprise Times spoke to Bas de Vos, Director of IFS Labs. He has been in charge of IFS Labs at arguably one of the most exciting times for technology research and development. The conversation was animated and full of information about what the Labs has achieved, what it is working on now and where de […]

Enterprise Times spoke to Jussi Ylinen, managing Director at Anticimex, Finland.  Anticimex has rolled out a major IoT project for controlling rats in Finland. We spoke about the challenges the project faced and the problem it solves. Before they implemented IFS, the rat traps communicated with a contact centre via email. Each trap sends an […]

Vice President of Engineering at Liferay, Jorge Ferrer, talks to Enterprise Times about managing open source relationships and UX. Many companies are looking at the benefits of open source but struggle to know how best to approach it. At many conferences, the message seems to be that open source is free. But that’s not the […]

Oded Vanunu is the Head of Product Vulnerability Research at Check Point Software Technologies. He sat down with Enterprise Times recently to talk about what he does and what organisations could do to improve security. The rise of cybercrime and nation state hacking groups has brought with it very sophisticated attacks. This is why Check Point […]

Enterprise Times caught up with Liz Rice, Technology Evangelist, Aqua Security and Sugu Sougoumarane, CTO, PlanetScale Data at the Cloud Native Computing Conference and KubeCon in Copenhagen. We talked about Vitess, the open source database clustering system which is now a CNCF project. At the same time we talked about the challenge of container security, […]

At the Cloud Native Computing Conference and KubeCon 18 in Copenhagen, Enterprise Times was fortunate to catch Aparna Sinha, Product Management Lead for Kubernetes at Google. It’s a very busy time for Kubernetes. It has just graduated from the CNCF and is now a fully fledged project in its own right. It has also seen substantial […]

Earlier this year, Enterprise Times talked with Orli Gan, Head of Products for Threat Detection at Checkpoint. Gan had just given a keynote where she told the audience that AI was not a silver bullet for cyber security. It’s an interesting view that is aimed at resetting expectations of what the technology is able to […]

At Apttus Accelerate in San Francisco, Raj Verma, COO, Apttus sat with Enterprise Times to talk about where the business is going. Apttus is growing fast, both in terms of customer numbers and the new technology it is introducing. The challenge for Apttus is making sure it can match the two growth vectors without impacting […]

At the CNCF and KubeCon 18 conference Enterprise Times cornered James Strachan, Senior Architect at Cloudbees for a chat. We talked about the need to optimise CI/CD for Kubernetes. Strachan is excited about what Kubernetes brings to the DevOps process. For Strachan, Kubernetes brings a lot of excitement in how we build, test, deploy, release and […]

This week Unit4 held its Connect Ambassadors conference in Amsterdam. Enterprise Times attended the event and had the opportunity to sit down with Jeremy Roche to discuss the weeks news and its strategy.  The key message from the event was around the message “We create space for people to do more work that really matters”.  […]

At the recent Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and KubeCon conference in Copenhagen, Enterprise Times caught up with Alexis Richardson. In addition to being the CEO of Weaveworks, Richardson is also the Chair of the TOC at the CNCF. Richardson started by giving us an update on where all the projects are within the CNCF. […]

Enterprise Times flew into Gothenburg to visit the NTT Security, Security Operations Centre (SOC). While there we were able to catch up with Fredrik Westerdahl, Senior Director of Threat Detection in the Managed Security Services organisation. Westerdahl heads a team that spends its time looking at traffic from customers, identifying threats and advising customers on […]

At SuiteWorld, Enterprise Times caught up with Chris Tamucci, Director of Operations at Big Agnes & Honey Stinger. Tamucci talked about how the company has grown to become a multinational wholesale distributor of sports and camping goods. Since its founding it has used a combination of Excel and QuickBooks to run the business. However, at […]

At the KubeCon and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) European conference last week, Abby Kearns took time out of her hectic schedule to talk to Enterprise Times. Kearns talked about the recent Cloud Foundry Summit in Boston. Cloud Foundry, like many other open source conferences, is seeing record numbers of attendees at conferences. Importantly, these […]

Brandon Philips, CTO, CoreOS was at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation conference in Copenhagen last week. Enterprise Times tracked him down to find out what he has been up to since Red Hat acquired CoreOS in January. Philips said that the alignment between Red Hat and CoreOS was making life easy. One project, Operators, something […]

Craig Fulton is the Chief Product Officer at ConnectWise. Enterprise Times sat down with him after the keynote at ConnectWise where it launched ConnectWise Unite. We spoke about what other software ConnectWise will add to that solution. We also discussed the challenge for ConnectWise as it adds functionality to its own platform, it can potentially […]

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is holding its annual European conference in Copenhagen. Enterprise Times got the chance to sit down with Dan Kohn, Executive Director to talk about the significant growth in members and where the CNCF is going. Last year there were just 1,500 attendees in Berlin. This year there are 4,300 […]