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.)
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.
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.
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.
