Enterprise Times

Co-founder and Vice President of Product at Datical, Pete Pickerill talked with Enterprise Times about DevOps and data. Everything we do in IT revolves around data yet when it comes to including it into the development process, people get wary. Part of the problem is that we are still using approaches from 10 years, 20 […]

Evan Goldberg is the founder and EVP of Development at Oracle NetSuite. Enterprise Times spoke to him at Suiteworld about a variety of subjects. These included how NetSuite will look to spend the additional funds that Oracle has pushed its way. Will they continue to invest in developers or will they look to acquire other […]

At Oracle Modern Business Experience 2018, Enterprise Times caught up with Dominic Regan, Senior Director, Oracle. Regan has spent the last 30 years working in the supply chain. He is currently responsible for Oracle’s logistics applications such as transportation, global trade and warehouse management. Regan has seen significant change over that 30 years. The impact […]

On a recent visit to the UK, Jason Cohen, Founder and CTO of WP Engine sat down with Enterprise Times to talk about the challenges of WordPress, hosting and website management. WP Engine offers WordPress management services. It helps create, build, secure and manage WordPress installations. It’s success recently saw it win a $250 million […]

Enterprise Times sat down with Damon Anderson, Xero, to talk about partners. Xero is focused on helping accountants move beyond the boundaries of ledgers. It sees them as being the trusted partner many small businesses lack. In the research Xero has carried out, they continually see accountancy firms listed as the number one trusted business […]

At CYBERUK 2018, Enterprise Times caught up with Jonathan Bathurst, Business Development, Cyber Solutions, Lockheed Martin UK. Many people know Lockheed Martin as a defence contractor delivering aircraft and weapons systems. However, like all defence contractors, Lockheed Martin has highly skilled IT and cyber security teams. That should come as no surprise to many people […]

Enterprise Times spoke to Maja Luckos, Head of People Analytics at Capgemini at UNLEASH 2018 in London.  The discussion covered how Capgemini are leveraging Peakon software to deliver employee listening in a pilot project across several thousand employees from around the globe. Capgemini has found the pilot transformational for the role of both the manager […]

Enterprise Times talked with Patrick Johnston of Savvius about improving network performance. After 25 years of focusing on enterprise networks it is now looking at cloud computing and branch networks. The rise of SD-WAN technologies and VLANs is being used by companies to improve network performance. They allow network teams to shape traffic to improve […]

Enterprise Times spoke to Amy Wilson, SVP Products at SAP SuccessFactors at Unleash in London recently. She spoke about the move to delivering an omni-channel workforce experience to employees. SAP SuccessFactors aims to treat employees as customers, delivering a modern omni-channel experience. She also spoke about the employee engagement and how feedback is shaping how employees […]

As the fight to own the DevOps space hots up, one vendor in particular, CloudBees has a substantial lead. It is the commercial face of the open source Jenkins project. It has successfully brought together the commercial open source community users of Jenkins. Last year Enterprise Times sat with James Dumay, Director of Product Management, […]

Last year, Enterprise Times sat down with Nigel Harrison, Co-founder & Executive Director at Cyber Security Challenge UK. At the time we talked with Harrison, he had taken over the reins and was acting CEO of the Cyber Security Challenge. We were interested in how the challenge was approaching a wider and younger audience. One […]

Enterprise Times spoke to Chris Wade, Vice President of Product at Sage at the London Sage Session event. The discussion focused on why Sage launched Sage Business Cloud and how he sees it evolving. Wade commented that “Sage Business Cloud” gives the customer a framework to understand what their journey could look like with Sage. […]

Enterprise Times caught up with Chip Childers, CTO, Cloud Foundry Foundation at a recent Cloud Foundry event to talk about what the foundation is doing. Childers was unsurprisingly bullish about how Cloud Foundry was expanding and its future. ET asked Childers about the trust challenge that open source faces. The open source software industry likes […]

At the end of 2017, Enterprise Times spoke to Octave Klaba, CEO and Chairman of OVH about his goals for the company. Klaba has been very clear about wanting to make OVH a tier one Internet player. The company has raised  significant amount of capital over the last 18 months in order to build out […]

Enterprise Times sat down with Stuart Coulson, Business Engagement Manager for the Cyber Security Challenge to talk about recruitment. There is a significant shortage of trained cyber security staff at the moment. This means that many HR departments are struggling to find the right talent to recruit. Coulson believes that part of the problem is that […]

Enterprise Times recently spoke with Meerah Rajavel, CIO, Forcepoint about the human centric approach to cyber security. One of the challenges of a human centric approach is ensuring that you have a diverse workforce. According to Rajavel, while 56% of the global workforce is women, only 28% work in technology. The number drops further when […]

ET caught up with Nick Williams, Head of Business Development, Intuit at QBConnect in London. He talks about the challenges faced by Accountants. He comments: “Number one GDPR round the corner in May and then Making Tax Digital as we are in the run up to that in 13 months.” He also talks about whether Accountants […]

Enterprise Times recently caught up with Joe Baguley, VP and CTO EMEA, VMware. Baguley describes himself as both Chief Technology Officer and Chief Talking Officer and is a hard man to pin down. He arrived at VMware after spending 10 years at Quest Software much of it as CTO. Baguley was in typically ebullient mood […]

Oracle OpenWorld is a huge event, over 60,000 partners, customers and employees attend the annual event in San Francisco. This year ET spoke to Mike Turner product lead at Zenotech Ltd. Its solutions allow clients to run complex fluid mechanical engineering problems on high performance computing environment that are matched against the requirements. One of the […]

Enterprise Times sat down with Dan Brown, Chief Product Officer at FinancialForce to discover where the company and its products are headed in the future. Brown is the fourth senior member of the leadership team joining Tod Nielsen, Fred Studer and Joe Fuca as it looks to scale.  Brown reveals the three reasons why he […]

Aaron Higbee, CTO and co-founder at PhishMe recently flew into London to talk about their recent report on Phishing. While he was in town Enterprise Times sat down with Higbee to talk about the challenges organisations face and what they can do about the epidemic of phishing. Higbee talked about how companies need to help […]

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 […]