Welcome to the Enterprise Irregulars. We are a diverse group of practitioners, consultants, investors, journalists, analysts and full time bloggers who share a common passion - enterprise technology and its application to business in the 21st century.
(Please note that after a recent platform change this site is still under construction – the list below is incomplete, for now.)
Josh Greenbaum
Industry Analyst, Consultant and author, former programmer, systems analyst with 25 years experince. Spent three years in Europe as an industry analyst and as Correspondent for Information Week and other industry publications. Regularly consults with leading public and private enterprise software, database, and infrastructure companies. An award-winning columnist for leading IT and business magazines, Josh is widely quoted in the trade and business press and he blogs at Enterprise Matters.
Sandy Kemsley
Independent analyst and systems architect specializing in business process management and Enterprise 2.0. Previously founded two successful product and service companies focusing on content management, BPM and e-commerce. Featured conference speaker on BPM and its impact on business, and writes the Column 2 blog on BPM and Enterprise 2.0. 
Michael Krigsman
Well-known expert on why IT projects fail, CEO of Asuret, a Brookline, MA consultancy that uses specialized tools to measure and detect potential vulnerabilities in projects, programs, and initiatives. Also a popular and prolific blogger, writing the IT Project Failures blog for ZDNet. Frequently quoted by the press on topics related to IT management.
Susan Scrupski
Founder and CEO of SoCo Partners, a consultancy based in Austin, TX specializing in introducing 2.0 philosophies and practices to large enterprises. She has been conducting research and chronicling trends on Enterprise 2.0 since 2006 on her ITSinsider blog. Susan was a leading industry observer, researcher, consultant, and writer on the IT Services and Outsourcing market throughout the 90s, including dotcom coverage of leading Internet Professional Services providers.
Ross Mayfield
Chairman, President & Co-founder of Socialtext, a leading Enterprise Social Software provider. Previously VP of Marketing for a Fujitsu spinout and CEO of an enterprise risk management software company. Co-founded RateXchange (AMEX:RTX), the leading B2B commodity exchange for telecom, founded an ISP, a web-design company, and has served on a number of Advisory Boards of high tech startups. Mayfield is a former advisor to the Office of the President of Estonia and began his career in the non-profit sector. He is a noted blogger, industry expert, conference speaker.
Tom Foydel
Spent several years with ADP where I learned Oracle, and then 9 years subsequently with Oracle as an ERP consultant and Project Manager. Founded SightLines Consulting 5 years ago as a NetSuite VAR and consultancy. Committed early on to the idea of software as a service and happily the wider world seems to be getting the idea.
Sig Rinde
Born in Norway, lived in Switzerland and Spain, now living in the south of France. Educated at ETH Zürich, Switzerland and INSEAD, France.
Done multiple LBOs, founded a few companies and advised on Mergers & Acquisitions world wide.
Now entirely focused on Enterprise Software and a radical break with all former how-to-run-your-business assumptions and systems architecture - distilled into a new solution named Thingamy.
Spending time off running orienteering races, cycling, skiing and snowboarding.
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Dennis Moore
Enterprise Software veteran, with over twenty years' experience on every side of of business, from user and buyer to VP, CEO and Board Member roles; from Procter & Gamble to Oracle, SAP and OQO. Founder of the OracAlumni Network.
Aactively tracks the trends and strategies of the enterprise software world, shares his news digest and analysis at Next Gen Enterprise.
Zoli Erdos
Industry Observer, Blogger, Startup Advisor, Program Chair @ SVASE (Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs). In his "prior life" spent 15 years immersed in the business of Enterprise Software, at management positions with SAP, IBM, Deloitte, KPMG and the like.
Currently Editor-in-Chief, CloudAve and also editing the Enterprise Irregulars blog.
Charlie Wood
One of the founders and developers of Spanning Sync, a married father of two, a native Texan and Austinite, and a recently-readmitted student at the University of Texas, where he's adding an economics major to his computer science degree. He blogs @ Moonwatcher and The 40-Year-Old Freshman.
Michael Coté
I’m Coté, a software Industry Analyst with RedMonk. Generally, I cover software: making it, using it, and living with it.
Typically, I cover a wide range of topics in the software and technology world: primarily enterprise software, open source, IT management & cloud, software development, collaborative, the web, emerging technologies, and social/collaborative software. I'm RedMonk’s IT Management Lead. My blog is available at http://www.PeopleOverProcess.com and I producs the RedMonk podcasts as well as the video podcast RedMonkTV.
Tom Raftery
Tom Raftery is the lead analyst of GreenMonk , the Energy and Sustainability practice of industry analyst form RedMonk.
Tom has a very strong background in social media, is the former co-founder of a software firm and is co-founder and director of hyper energy-efficient data center Cork Internet eXchange.
Jason Busch
Obsessed with how companies manage, spend and save money, Jason writes about procurement, trade and supply chain issues @ Spend Matters. He has significant first hand experience developing and marketing technology and services products, has advised numerous companies on sourcing and related techniques as well as M&A pursuits. In previous lives before tech, he was a management consultant and merchant banking analyst.
David Terrar
David heads up D2C, a consulting firm which provides social media consulting and Cloud based solutions for content, collaboration, web publishing, and online accounting as well as representing Web 2.0 University™ in the UK. In addition he is Executive Director of ITBrix LLC, the software company that creates WordFrame, the web publishing and collaboration platform for building better web communities, and PageTypes their CMS.
Jason Corsello
Jason Corsello is Vice President at Knowledge Infusion, a leading HR consulting firm. Jason leads the company’s newest service offering, providing thought leadership, intelligence, and best practices to the HCM community. His expertise in enterprise software and service delivery strategies augments existing consulting services and brings Knowledge Infusion clients a new level of value.
Anshu Sharma
Senior director of Force.com platform product management at salesforce.com. Previously founded and led Oracle SaaS Platform, and held engineering and product management roles in SOA and Identity Management. Anshu has a B. Tech. (Honors) and M.S. in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill respectively. Read his blog here.
Sadagopan
Sadagopan, heads satyam's NA consulting & enterprise solution based out of the Valley. A dynamic, visionary, and senior executive with many years of experience in the successful start up,growth, and leadership of global consulting ,sales and deal pursuit teams with focus on enterprise software & services. He has an impressive track record of building leading edge practices, steering high performance teams and in pursuing programs and instituting processes for dynamic growth environments. He has led international teams and initiatives throughout the US, Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa. Sadagopan has consummate skills at understanding complex business and technical environments, strategic relationship building with key stakeholders, and ability to manage difficult negotiations and pursue innovative ideas focused on generating business value. His blog focus is on business, enterprise software, IT services & web presence.
Eddie Herrmann
Solution Architect at Colgate-Palmolive designing and developing custom end-to-end SAP applications. Ed has been working with SAP technologies for over 8 years and is an SAP Mentor, winner of the 2007 demo jam in both US and EMEA SAP TechEd, and was invited to work at SAP Labs in Palo Alto, CA as part of the SAP Imagineering Fellowship Program.
Brad Feld
Early stage investor and entrepreneur for over 20 years. Prior to co-founding Foundry Group, he co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and, prior to that, founded Intensity Ventures. Currently serves on the board of directors of Gist, Gnip, Oblong, Standing Cloud, and Zynga for Foundry Group. Previously, Brad served as chief technology officer of AmeriData Technologies. Active with several non-profit organizations, Chairman of the National Center for Women & Information Technology and Co-Chairman of the Colorado Governor’s Innovation Council. Nationally recognized speaker, widely read and well respected blogger at Feld Thoughts .com and Ask the VC.
Chris Selland
Technology Business Development and Marketing Executive with deep domain expertise in the areas of alliance strategies, corporate development/M&A, content and CRM strategy. Spent many years as a technology industry analyst at the Yankee Group, Reservoir Partners, and Aberdeen Group. Currently a Focus Research expert in the areas of Sales, Marketing, and Customer Service, and frequently blogs at SiliconANGLE and StockTwitsTech.
Jeff Nolan
Jeff is a former venture capitalist and software company executive with wide ranging experience in enterprise software, consumer applications, and media markets. He writes extensively on these topics, and public policy, clean tech, and entrepreneurship on his own blog and here on Enterprise Irregulars.
Ramana Rao
Beyond search entrepreneur. Started out at Xerox PARC, spun out Inxight, a pioneering company on text analytics and information visualization, his path took him through building products for governments, publishers, enterprises and end users. He's now taking his shot at iCurrent to deliver personalized news for the mainstream audience.
Dion Hinchcliffe
Dion Hinchcliffe is a well-known enterprise architect and business strategist as well as president and CTO of the premier consulting firm Hinchcliffe & Company. Dion focuses on the topics of Enterprise 2.0, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web 2.0, open business models, and next-generation enterprises. His thought leadership can be found on ZDNet, ebizQ, Social Computing Journal, and Musings and Ruminations on Building Great Systems. He co-authored Web 2.0 Architectures for O'Reilly and operates Web 2.0 University. You can also reach Dion at dion@hinchcliffeandco.com.
Nenshad Bardoliwalla
Nenshad Bardoliwalla is the co-author of Driven to Perform: Risk-Aware Performance Management From Strategy Through Execution and an enterprise software executive with deep expertise in Analytics, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Performance Management, and Governance, Risk, and Compliance. He has played critical leadership roles in the market success of the products that now comprise the Oracle and SAP EPM and BI suites. Nenshad holds a BA from Cornell University and an MA from New York University.
Naomi Bloom
Leading independent voice, analyst, end-user HRM business/delivery system strategyconsultant, vendor HR technology/HRO business strategy/platform architecture/object model consultant, and thought leader across the HRM/HR technology/HR outsourcing industry now is the 23rd year of her solo practice, Bloom & Wallace. You can learn more about Naomi's work and thinking at In Full Bloom.
R "Ray" Wang
R “Ray” Wang is a Partner for Enterprise Strategy at Altimeter Group and the author of the popular enterprise software blog "A Software Insider's Point of View". With viewership in the millions of page views a year, his blog provides insight into how disruptive technologies and business models impact the CXO, enterprise apps strategy, vendor selection, software contract negotiations, and emerging business and technology trends. Research topics often focus on business process transformation, next generation ERP, social CRM, Project Based Solutions, Order Management, Master Data Management, analytics, and SaaS/Cloud solutions.
For software vendors, he provides strategic guidance in go-to-market strategies; reviews and designs software licensing, pricing, support, and maintenance policies; delivers competitive assessments; evaluates software partner ecosystems, and researches business processes such as the perfect order and continuous customer management for the enterprise and SMB markets.
Publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Fortune, Inc., The Associated Press, CIO Magazine, Information Week, ComputerWorld, Financial Times, eWeek, CRM Magazine, IDG News, ZDNet, TechTarget, and Managing Automation frequently seek his point of view. An energetic and passionate keynote speaker, Ray's appeared on several video outlets including CNBC. In both 2008 and 2009, Ray was recognized by the prestigious Institute of Industry Analyst Relations (IIAR) as the Analyst of the Year and in 2009 he was recognized as one of the most important analysts for Enteprise, SMB, and Software. In 2009, A Software Insider's POV was listed in the top 25 of Jonny Bentwood's Technobabble 2.0 Top Industry Analyst Blogs.
