Enterprise Times

At Appian Europe 2019, Enterprise Times talked with Siter Ali, Area Vice President for Solutions Consulting, EMEA and APAC at Appian. The Appian platform is a wide offering from AI and RPA to low-code. Ali sees it as fundamentally allowing customers to bring together people, technology and data. The latter drives some of the technology […]

Alteryx talk about the Chief Data Officer and its evolution to the Chief Transformation Officer. It is a subject that Enterprise Times spoke to Alan Jacobson, Chief data and Analytics Officer at Alteryx about. Jacobson has both an internal and externally facing role at the company ET asked Jacobson what changes the Alteryx has made […]

There is growing concern around the mental health issues faced by those in cybersecurity. It is a subject that is beginning to get an increasing amount of attention at cybersecurity conferences. One reason it has worked its way up the agenda is due to the increase in military veterans employed in the industry. While cybersecurity […]

At QSC19, Enterprise Times caught up with Asif Awan, CTO of Container Security at Qualys. Awan has a long history in building security solutions and he sold his last start-up to Qualys a year ago. There is a lot of interest in how to move to containers with many organisations not quite sure what the […]

At Inforum 2019, Enterprise Times had the chance to sit down with Nunzio Esposito, VP Head of Experience at Infor. Esposito heads up the Infor Hook & Loop design team and is a adjunct professor at NYU and entrepreneur. Hook & Loop has a design philosophy of: “Always only exactly what the user needs right […]

At Sumo Logic Illuminate, Enterprise Times talked with Dave Frampton, Director of Cloud Solutions, Sumo Logic. In the press conference the day before the podcast, Frampton had talked about context, cloud-based SIEM and SOC-less solutions. ET asked what this meant for customers. Frampton said: “As with modern applications, SOC-less was about cloud native. It was […]

At the Qualys QSC19 conference in Las Vegas, Enterprise Times met with Sumedh Thakar, President and Chief Product Officer, Qualys. A major challenge for organisations is deciding what security tools they need. ET asked Thakar is it point solutions, platforms or is it more complicated than that. Thakar thinks the underlying driver is simple. “It […]

On the eve of Qualys’ QSC 19 in Las Vegas, Enterprise Times talked with Philippe Courtot, CEO, Qualys about the state of cyber security. One of the biggest challenges for many organisations is knowing what they need to secure. Courtot believes that the start point is asset management. “You cannot secure what you can’t see.” […]

Sam Woodcock is the Senior Director of Cloud Strategy and Enablement at iland. His job is to help customers get from their existing environments to the cloud whether that be a single cloud or multi-cloud. Woodcock recently talked with Enterprise Times about the challenges that brings and how customers are approaching the cloud. One of […]

Ettienne Reinicke is the CTO of NTT Ltd, the company created by the merging of 28 different NTT brands. His challenge is extreme – merge the technology and assets of all those businesses without impacting customers. It’s a daunting challlenge. Reinicke spoke with Enterprise Times about the challenges he faces and how is dealing with […]

Stas Zvinyatskovsky, Managing Director, Accenture works with companies around the world. His focus is on software engineering from architecture to processes, to organisation and to culture. It’s a space that is changing rapidly. At DevOps World earlier this year, Enterprise Times sat down with Zvinyatskovsky to talk about software engineering. ET was interested in how […]

Enterprise Times spoke to Steve Treagust, Global Industry Director, Finance, HCM and Strategy at the IFS World Conference in Boston. Enterprise Times asked Treagust about how organisations should approach AI? What strategy should they take? Treagust believes they do not always look to answer the right question. He commented: “Not enough people have thought hard […]

At Inforum Enterprise Times sat down with Rick Rider Senior Director of Product Management at Infor and Mike Kalinowski, Senior Product Manager at Infor to talk about Coleman, the Infor AI platform. They revealed what has happened in the two years since it was first announced. From just an idea two years ago Infor is […]

Is Brexit just around the corner or not? Regardless, Enterprise Times wanted to ask Craig Sullivan, Senior Vice President of Enterprise and International Products what NetSuite is doing to prepare for it. Sullivan has a deep experience of internationalising the NetSuite software. He is the individual who would know what the impact might be. Sullivan […]

Enterprise Times sat down to talk with Christian Beedgen, Co-Founder and CTO, Sumo Logic just after his keynote at Illuminate. The focus of Beedgen’s keynote was around reliability and how do we, as IT Ops, know what is really going on inside the data centre. According to Beedgen: “The definitions of what you should monitor […]

This week is the inaugural OmniSci Converge user conference held at the Computer History Museum in Palo Alto. OmniSci, previously known as MapD, is a big data and analytics player. Its primary focus is on ultra large data sets which is a growing challenge for a number of industry verticals from oil & gas to […]

At the Spark+AI Summit, Europe, Enterprise Times sat with Ali Ghodsi, CEO and co-founder, Databricks to talk AI and big data. Ghodsi started as an AI researcher and took that knowledge and experience into Databricks when it was founded. It gives him an interesting perspective on the state of the, often overhyped, AI market. For […]

At Spark+AI Summit Europe 2019, Databricks announced it was giving its Delta Lake technology to the Linux Foundation. It’s a significant move for a company that only earlier this year made that technology open source. The question for many Databricks customers is why do this? What does it mean for us? For those companies that […]

Enterprise Times recently spoke to Dr Jill Strange, Vice President, HCM, Science applications, Infor to discuss the latest product to emerge from the Talent Science, Team Insights. Talent Science has a reputation of predicting the right people in the right role for customers. It is now looking at how customers can build the best teams […]

As Open Source continues to grow its share of the software market, there are increasing questions being asked about the state of licensing. At Percona Live in Amsterdam, CEO Peter Zaitsev opened his keynote and talked about what is happening in this space. Enterprise Times caught up with him to ask a few more questions […]

At Percona Live, Enterprise Times talked with Matt Yonkovit, Chief Experience Officer, Percona about their latest survey. It has thrown up some interesting results not least the extraordinary numbers of database instances some customers are running. Yonkovit believes that this is being driven by the move to containerisation with organisations deploying databases to support each […]

Fortude announced a new implementation accelerator at Inforum recently. Enterprise Times spoke to Bob McKee, SVP Americas at the event to talk about Fashion Retail-in-a-box and the state of Retail. McKee has a spent many years working with Retail brands and talks about the specific challenges that the industry faces. He argues that organisations need […]

Alongside Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle NetSuite ran a one-day SuiteConnect event. Enterprise Times caught up with Brian Chess, GVP Cloud Operations at Oracle NetSuite and Craig Sullivan, GVP Product Management at NetSuite. We talked about the new announcements in NetSuite 19.2 and, in particular, the move to sit on Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure. This means that NetSuite […]

Unit4 ERP is underpinned by an innovative microservices architecture. Holger Mueller, Vice President and Principal Analyst at Constellation Research described by saying: “Unit4 has one of the most innovative ERP platforms in the market”. Enterprise Times spoke to Claus Jepsen, Deputy CTO at Unit4 to discuss the architecture and why it is so different and […]

At Oracle OpenWorld, Enterprise Times talked with John Bolger and Nic Woods from Version 1. Version 1 is an Ireland-based IT services and solution company with a lot of experience in ERP systems. ERP is a sector that is still seemingly divided on cloud. Some companies, such as Oracle NetSuite and Sage Intacct describe themselves […]