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 experience. 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.
Craig Cmehil
Senior Product Specialist with SAP AG in Germany whose broad-based expertise includes not only the development of desktop applications but also Web services – from backend integration through to GUI design. His recent work has seen a change in primary focus, now concentrating on the users – the knowledge workers – who work with the tools that he and others have developed.
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 Executive Director of The 2.0 Adoption Council, a user group focused on introducing 2.0 philosophies and practices to large enterprises. The Council is now a division of Dachis Group, a global consultancy specializing in social business headquartered in Austin, TX. Susan 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.
Maggie Fox
Maggie Fox is the founder and CEO of Social Media Group, one of the world’s largest independent
agencies helping business navigate the new socially engaged Web.
Pioneers in their field, Social Media Group has developed social media
strategies for some of the best-known brands in Europe and North
America, including; Ford Motor Company, SAP Global Marketing, Yamaha
Motor, ING Bank and Harlequin Publishing. SMG has been Ford’s social
media agency since 2007.
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 firm 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
Vice President of Force.com platform product management at salesforce.com – leading Force.com server techonologies, Force.com Sites and VMforce (the Enterprise Java Cloud). 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.
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 consultant, business strategist, enterprise architect, and frequent keynote speaker. He is currently Senior Vice President of Client Engagement at Dachis Group. Dion focuses on the topics of Enterprise 2.0, Web 2.0, Social Business, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), 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.hinchcliffe@dachisgroup.com.
Nenshad Bardoliwalla
Nenshad Bardoliwalla is Co-Author of Driven to Perform: Risk-Aware Performance Management From Strategy Through Execution (Evolved Technologist Press, New York, NY, 2009), and an Enterprise Irregular. He has played critical leadership roles in the market success of many 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 founding partner of Altimeter Group and leads the Enterprise Strategy team. He’s also 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.
Niel Robertson
Niel Robertson is a technology entrepreneur. He is the CEO of Trada, a paid search marketplace, and currently serves on the board of VigLink, an affiliate technology company.
Blog: www.trada.com/blog
Steve Mann
Founder and CEO of AbleBrains, a firm that specializes in helping companies “get their juice back” so that they can go to market in a compelling, innovative and profitable fashion.
Prior to AbleBrains, Steve was a senior executive with SAP, leading some of the companies efforts in the mid-market, as well as leading their Customer Experience, Oracle Competitive Strategy, Social Media, Services Marketing & the Global Competitive and Market Intelligence teams.
He has been an EIR for BRM Capital as well as CA’s product strategy lead for its Unicenter product line. He’s held numerous technology and marketing positions throughout his career.
Phil Fersht
Phil Fersht is a serial analyst and consultant with 15 years’ invested in the analyst and management consulting industry. He founded the famous Horses for Sources blog (horsesforsources.com), focused on all issues outsourcing, on a dreary evening back in early 2007. 500 posts, 3 millions visits and 3,000 comments later, he’s finally doing what he’s always threatened: starting a research firm focused purely on outsourcing, aptly named “HfS Research”.
Prior to running HfS Research, Phil’s previous experience was built up in lead analyst roles for AMR Research (Gartner) and IDC Asia/Pacific; he also led many outsourcing, offshoring and shared services engagements for enterprise clients during his years with Deloitte Consulting and Everest Group.
Merv Adrian
Founded IT Market Strategy after three decades in the IT industry. Left Forrester Research after 6 years as Senior Vice President, during which I helped restructure the research organization after its acquisition of Giga Information Group. Analyst, research manager, executive editor of monthly Research Digest and weekly GigaFlash, chair of the GigaWorld conference (later Forrester IT Forum.) Now following the software markets as an independent analyst, specializing in the emerging ADBMS, BI, data integration and other data management disciplines.
Stewart Mader
Stewart Mader is an experienced content strategist and project manager, dynamic speaker to corporate audiences and conferences, author of two books, and editor of Future Changes, a widely-read weblog on information design, content strategy, wikis, and collaboration that has been cited by The New Yorker, The Guardian (UK), CIO Magazine, Fast Company, InfoWorld, InformationWeek, and The New York Times. He has helped organizations around the world develop content strategies and build products that increase information value, collaboration, and employee & customer engagement.
Evangelos Simoudis
Managing Director at Trident Capital focusing on investments in Internet and software businesses.
Prior to entering venture capital, Evangelos had more than 20 years experience in high-technology industries, in executive roles spanning operations, marketing, sales and engineering.
Evangelos earned a PhD in computer science from Brandeis University and a BS in electrical engineering from Caltech.
