Enterprise Times

Organisations like to talk about innovation and how they are spending money on R&D to create new products for their customers. Many companies, however, confuse new features to a product with real innovation. Enterprise Times met with CEO of NTT Security, Matt Gyde, in San Francisco recently to ask what innovation meant to NTT Ltd. […]

In our second of three podcasts recorded after Appian World was cancelled, Enterprise Times talked to Michael Beckley, Chief Technology Officer and co-founder, Appian. Beckley started coding at age six using the BASIC programming language. Those coding skills that he learned as he grew up have helped grow Appian to a company valued at over […]

Enterprise Times sat down with Bharath Gowda, VP Product Marketing, Databricks to discuss their latest announcement, Databricks Ingest. As organisations look to create massive data lakes from which they can do analytics and build their machine learning, getting access to the data is a non-trivial task. Gowda said: “The path towards data science and machine […]

Andrew Dalziel VP industry and solution strategy recently talked to Enterprise Times about how manufacturers should approach moving to the cloud. He says that manufacturers are no longer asking what, why, how questions. What are they buying? The business case determines the why. How is how will they do it. He argues that today buyers are […]

Just before Covid-19 caused the mass cancellation of conferences, Enterprise Times visited Appian to meet with Matt Calkins, CEO and other senior members of his team. Appian has just made its first acquisition of a company and launched its RPA offering. In this first of three podcasts, Calkin talks about Robotic Process Automation (RPA). Calkins […]

Gretchen Alarcon is the Group Vice President for Human Capital Management strategy at Oracle. At Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle published a study looking at the impact of five emerging technologies on Supply chain and Finance. Enterprise Times discussed whether the five would also have an impact on HR in the future. The five technologies were: AI, […]

Software quality affects software vendors as much as it affects end-user organisations. The question is, how do we improve software? It has to be done. Organisations are castigated when they don’t apply patches but with so many software vendors now having to issue patches due to issues in their code, it can be a battle […]

At Dreamforce, Enterprise Times spoke to Dan Rogers, Co-Founder and CMO, Peakon. Peakon delivers an employee engagement platform. Its customers include Capgemeni, Easyjet and Pret-a-manger. Rogers has used Salesforce in the organisation from nearly the first day. A deliberate strategy that saw him chose Salesforce over other solutions. Rogers commented:”We made an investment in Sales [&#8230...

At the RSA Conference 2020, Brittany O’Shea, Senior Product Manager, Veracode presented Veracode’s findings when it came to securing open source code. O’Shea talked with Enterprise Times to give more details about the problem. One of the challenges of open source is dealing with myths. We have moved away from the belief that all open source […]

Every DevOps conference likes to talk about the benefits from DevSecOps, shifting security left. The challenge for most organisations is how to do it. Part of the problem is breaking down cultural barriers and success there is patchy. A more important issue is working out where security integrates with DevOps. The stock answer is shift-left […]

Chris Wysopal is the founder and CTO of Veracode. Unlike many CTOs in the cybersecurity business, Wysopal has a long history of actually doing security and was one of the founders of L0pht Heavy Industries, one of the original hacker collectives. It gives him a unique insight into application security and is one of the […]

At Openworld London, Enterprise Times spoke to Debbie Green, Vice President Applications at Oracle. Green has seen the evolution of Oracle at first hand as it has transformed itself into a cloud vendor. Over the last few years she has worked with companies to help them to digitally transform their businesses. This is not a […]

At NIC 20/20 Vision in Oslo, Enterprise Times talked with Jason Zander, Executive Vice President, Microsoft Azure and Rune Syversen, Founder and CEO, Crayon. Zander had just completed his keynote coverage where he laid out the breadth of Azure. He also touched on the potential of AI and the challenges in dealing with data. Enterprise […]

Enterprise sat down with Patrick Morrisey GM Revenue Optimization Business Unit and Nigel Cullington, VP Product Marketing at Upland Altify at Dreamforce. Cullington reveals that CRM is not enough today. “CRM does not add the value that customer needs. It doesn’t add the strategy and the methodology.” Cullington explains the Altify approach to Customer Revenue […]

When Sage Intacct announced an integration with Sage People, Enterprise Times spoke with Kathy Lord, SVP, Sage People and Paul Burrin, VP Product and Marketing – Sage People. Lord previously worked within Sage Intacct and knows the ERP vendor well. Sage had also just released Sage People Winter 20 People and ET asked Burrin why […]

At Dreamforce Enterprise Times sat down with David Stephans CRO, Rootstock to talk about sales and operations planning in Manufacturing. Stephans had just completed a well-attended and informational talk about the subject. Enhancing this often disconnected function can bring significant benefits to customers and increase customer satisfaction. He noted that there are several challenges with [&#823...

At Dreamforce this year Enterprise Times spoke to Chet Patel, MD Commercial, BT Global about their journey with Salesforce. He talks about how the company moved from a “reasonably inflexible” CRM system to Salesforce. Patel noted: “We quite liked the processes, the tools and the simplicity of Salesforce”. It is now used across BT Global […]

One of the challenges for cyber security teams is getting true engagement at a board level. Part of this is that lack of anyone on the board with any direct responsibility for the issue. But a larger part is the language used when talking with the board. It doesn’t matter if it is internal teams […]

Deception technology is about fooling attackers into going after the wrong parts of your network. It gives defenders an opportunity to stop attacks before they have any impact on real systems or data. It is something that is growing in popularity as defenders look for any edge in the daily fight against cyber attacks. Carolyn […]

Aphria is a fast growing multinational cannabusiness in Canada. It recently deployed a combination of Salesforce, Rootstock and ComplianceQuest to replace a multitude of legacy systems in an organisation built through acquisition. At Dreamforce this year Enterprise Times sat down with Tim Purdie, CIO and CISO Aphria as well as Prashanth Rajendran CEO, ComplianceQuest and […]

Smart Cities are all the rage. Everyone wants to talk about the benefits that they can bring to citizens and to cities. The problem is, once you start to ask about implementation and its challenges, vendors are less forthcoming. It was refreshing, therefore, to talk with Stefaan Hinderyckx, Senior Vice President for Security at NTT […]

Matouk is 90 year old manufacturer and distributor of luxury textiles. At Dreamforce, Stuart Kiely, VP Digital Strategy at Matouk gave a presentation on how the company modernised its operations with Salesforce and Rootstock. Enterprise Times sat down with Kiely to learn more about how the company had transformed itself using technology. Key to the […]

Is your cyber hygiene good enough? Do you know what devices are on your network? Can you determine between IT, IoT and OT devices? The latter is far more complicated than it sounds, especially if you have no visibility or understanding of all the protocols on your network. But without good cyber hygiene policies, including […]

At Alteryx Inspire, Enterprise Times spoke to Brian Millrine, Group Strategy Director at Brookson and Andrew Bate, Advanced analytics manager at Brookson. Brookson offers a digital platform for the professional contracting market. The company uses Alteryx to underpin its platform and assist it through its digital transformation. Millrine explains how Alteryx helps by binding their […]

At Appian Europe, Enterprise Times caught up with Sathya Srinivasan to talk about how he is growing the Appian partner ecosystem. Srinivasan is Vice President, Solutions Consulting for Partners at Appian and also the Principal Solutions Architect. This gives him a different insight into working with partners compared to his peers in other companies. In […]