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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Articles

Alteryx reunites leaders with appointment of new CMO

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

Alteryx has appointed Michelle Huffas as its new Chief Marketing Officer. The appointment follows the departure of Keith Pearce in December 2023. It reunites Huff with CEO Andy MacMillan, who joined the company in December 2024. At UserTesting, Huff served as CMO while MacMillan was CEO. They also worked together in the same roles at Act-On Software and also served together at both Salesforce, Oracle and Stellent before that.
Boers & Co keeps the faith with Epicor

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

At Epicor Insights Europe, Enterprise Times spoke to Jos Greeve, Manager of ICT at Boers & Co Precision Solutions. Boers has used Epicor for a long time. In fact, Enterprise Times spoke to Greeve in 2018 at Epicor Insights about their move to Epicor ERP. When we last spoke Greeve was using Epicor on-premise but using the cloud version that enabled him to update versions regularly. He has continued to roll out every update from Epicor, fourteen over the last seven years.
News from the week beginning June 16 2025

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

We published several interviews and podcasts with industry leaders last week. Darren Cran, CEO of AccountsIQ, talked about his ambitions for the company, including international expansion. Fred Laluyaux, CEO at Aera Technology, explored how AI is remaking decision-making systems and talked about how “born in digital” has changed the way we make decisions in this podcast.
Monta launches Charging Point Benchmark

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

Monta, the company behind a rapidly expanding software platform that manages electric vehicle charging infrastructure for both individual and corporate users, has launched a new industry benchmark. The benchmark measures the real-world performance of EV Chargers across Europe, including the UK. There are two separate indexes, the top fifty DC charge points and the top fifty AC charge points by performance data in Q1 2025.
A Conversation with AccountsIQ

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

AccountsIQ is a rapidly growing financial Management software vendor. Darren Cran was named CEO in October 2024 and now leads the company he joined 13 years ago, following several years as a CFO for Kefron and then as a portfolio CFO. I spoke to Cran a few weeks ago. Cran first joined the company after a conversation with the founder and now Executive Chairman, Tony Connolly. He could see the digitisation wave that was coming to Finance and wanted to work closer to the technology.
Safe Software expands to Europe to support customers and partners

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

Safe Software has announced a major expansion into Europe. It is planning to expand its footprint in Ireland and the UK. The strategic expansion follows a successful 2024. Which saw it expand its partner network in Europe and add a total of 345 new customers. Earlier this year, it also announced multilingual capability for its platform. With additional support initially for German, Dutch, and French to support the expansion into Europe. It has already set up a legal entity in Ireland.
Zia Hubs - a new way to extract insights from your content

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

Zoho has launched Zia Hubs. US-based customers already using Zoho WorkDrive can gain early access to a new AI-powered feature. This feature creates an interface to help them organise and extract insights from their stored data, both unstructured and structured. There are already some advanced features enabled; for example, it is possible to automatically move a service ticket into a Hub. It would mean that a user could create a Hub for a specific product and another for a specific customer.
WSO2 appoints Red Hat veteran to lead UK&I

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

WSO2 has announced the appointment of Richard Evans as its UK and Ireland Country Manager. Evans will be responsible for leading strategic growth initiatives in the region and fostering key partnerships locally. He will bring two decades of open-source experience to help accelerate the adoption of WSO2’s open-source AI-native developer and integration platforms for API management, integration, and identity and access management (IAM) across the UK.
Rocketlane rolls out PSA to Sprinklr

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

Sprinklr, the unified customer experience platform, has selected Rocketlane’s professional services automation platform to manage its projects. The decision to move to the Rocketlane platform will come as a blow to Certinia, who revealed in 2019 that the CX company was using its PSA solution. The decision followed a rigourous evaluation that was led by the Sprinklr services leadership. It is not known why Sprinklr decided to drop Certinia.
PwC UK partners with Agiloft

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

Agiloft has announced a collaboration with PwC UK that will see the consulting firm help transform contract lifecycle management in Enterprise clients. The Agiloft platform, combined with PwC contract lifecycle management expertise, will improve the contracting processes and compliance within UK firms. The announcement extends Agiloft’s relationship with PwC in the US. Eric Laughlin, CEO, mentioned that the initial partnership was discussed during an interview last year with Enterprise Times.