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 […]