Steve Brooks

United Kingdom

Independent Consultant and analyst, IT advisory services and Telecommunications. MBA Student @Henleymba, Hobby Historian and dog walker

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Sigma appoints Fred Studer as CMO

6 days ago | enterprisetimes.co.uk | Steve Brooks

Sigma, a leading business intelligence platform, has appointed Fred Studer as its new CMO. An experienced CMO of other SaaS organisations, he will focus on helping the company expand its platform and customer base. He will focus on expanding the pipeline and bringing the Sigma story to life, with an emphasis on customer storytelling. This appears to be Sigma’s first appointment to a Chief Marketing Officer role.
Epicor adds more AI features to the Epicor Industry ERP Cloud

6 days ago | enterprisetimes.co.uk | Steve Brooks

At the Epicor Insights 2025 user conference, the company announced the general availability of its latest agentic AI capabilities of Epicor Prism and predictive ML of Epicor Grow AI. Epicor Grow is Epicor’s all-in-one cloud business intelligence solution. This provides both low-code and no-code features to support developers and business users to create stories using data visualisations. The Grow platform was originally purchased in 2022 and is fully integrated into the Epicor platform.
Pacvue announces three leadership changes

1 week ago | enterprisetimes.co.uk | Steve Brooks

Pacvue, a leading commerce acceleration platform, has appointed Ross McNab as its Chief Revenue Officer. He will be responsible for driving the overall growth strategy and leading the expansion. This is Rahul Choraria’s first significant hire since he was promoted to the role in September 2024. What isn’t clear from the announcement is whether Adam Bittner, SVP and head of Global Sales, retains his role and what departments report to McNab.
TOUGHBOOK invests in Cardiff and Hungary solutions and service centres

1 week ago | enterprisetimes.co.uk | Steve Brooks

Panasonic has announced that Panasonic TOUGHBOOK is to invest in expanding its services and solutions centres in Cardiff, Wales and Budapest, Hungary. The centres will both provide full lifecycle support from solution design and deployment to real-time servicing and innovation at the edge. The dual centre operation to support Europe was first mooted in 2022, when the company announced the opening of the Budapest Centre.
Makip launches 3D Avatar Fashion Recommendation Engine in UK and US

1 week ago | enterprisetimes.co.uk | Steve Brooks

Makip has announced a significant update to its Unisize clothing size recommendation engine. The update lets online shoppers see clothes on a 3D avatar of themselves, which is specific to their body shape. Already available in Japan, it is now available in the UK and the US. A demonstration of the new feature is available on YouTube. The 3D avatar engine has been available in Japan for some time.
Epicor Drives Sustainability with New Carbon Cost Rollup Feature

1 week ago | enterprisetimes.co.uk | Steve Brooks

At Epicor Insights, Epicor unveiled a new patent-pending Carbon Cost Rollup solution. It is available as part of the latest release of Epicor Kinetiq 2024.2. It will enable customers to build up the total carbon cost at a part number level for every product. It will also enable them to report carbon metrics to regulatory entities and authorities where required. The first version of this solution calculates the costs using standard costing functionality.
Why is a Risk Operations Centre important for an MSP

1 week ago | enterprisetimes.co.uk | Steve Brooks

Organisations, including MSPs, are very familiar with Security Operations Centres (SOC). They enable organisations to identify when a security incident has happened, enabling them to respond quickly on behalf of a customer. However, in this podcast, Matt Middleton-Leal, managing director of EMEA North and South at Qualys, explains the importance of the Risk Operations Centre (ROC). Qualys recently launched its cloud-based ROC.
West Brom Building Society to Transform With Deloitte and 10X Banking

1 week ago | enterprisetimes.co.uk | Steve Brooks

The West Brom Building Society has announced that it will work with Deloitte to help deploy the 10x Banking cloud-native meta core banking platform. The announcement coincided with the 250th anniversary of the first-ever Building Society in the UK. Ketley’s Building Society was founded in 1775 in Birmingham. The event is being celebrated at the Building Societies annual conference in Birmingham this week. The West Brom Building Society was founded in 1849.
FourKites partners with Chorus

1 week ago | enterprisetimes.co.uk | Steve Brooks

FourKites has announced a partnership with Chorus, a new company that emerged from Alphabet’s X, the moonshot factory. The strategic alliance will deliver FourKites access to the real-time data from Chorus. Recently independent, Chorus was founded to increase the visibility of and thereby improve efficiency, reduce waste, and enhance sustainability in a transformative way of individual assets.
Meet Ava the Unit4 Advanced Virtual Agent

1 week ago | enterprisetimes.co.uk | Steve Brooks

Unit4 has announced the launch of Ava, an Advanced Virtual Agent that connects users through Microsoft Teams to the Unit4 ERPx platform. The agent provides a natural language interface for users to ask questions and automate daily tasks. Ava is generally available today for ERPx; there is an inference that it may be available for other Unit4 solutions in the future as well. There was no information in the announcement about pricing. Enterprise Times asked Unit4 about it.