FSN - CEO Interviews

Charles Phillips, Infor CEO gives first face to face interview to FSN editor Gary Simon

Charles Phillips, CEO of Infor, the world’s third largest ERP vendor with around $2,0b turnover and 70,000 customers has been in post almost a year. With a new management team on board and a fresh strategy Phillips took time out to explain to Gary Simon, FSN’s managing editor, how the business is going head- to-head with Oracle and SAP, armed with a clearly differentiated position around deep industry specialisation, a more innovative culture and a determination to reverse the software industry’s mistakes of the past.

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FSN interviews Paul Byrne, CEO Trintech

Trintech is one of a small clutch of companies setting the pace in the rapidly moving financial reporting and compliance market. In recent years it has established itself as a specialist in the ‘Last Mile’ of finance, i.e. providing process automation around the tasks necessary to deliver management, statutory, regulatory reporting and filings post-consolidation as well as electronic filings in XBRL. Its CEO Paul Byrne talks to Gary Simon, FSN’s managing editor about the company’s move back into private hands last year and its ambitions for the future.

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FSN interviews Guy Haddleton, CEO Anaplan

It was the opportunity to do things better which tempted Adaytum founder and industry veteran Guy Haddleton back into the Business Intelligence market. Interviewed last week by FSN’s managing editor, Gary Simon, Guy talked about the excitement generated around his latest venture Anaplan, a new cloud-based BI platform designed for business analysis, budgeting, planning and forecasting.

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Runbook CEO, Herman Heller, says automation of close processes is set to change the annual audit

On a recent visit to London, Runbook CEO, Herman Heller, took time out to explain how the company’s innovative thinking around the financial close process could significantly change the audit process. Runbook a specialist in financial process automation, compliance and control in SAP ERP environments told FSN’s managing editor, Gary Simon, that, “changes to the audit are inevitable as automation increases the dependability of the close process”.

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John Schwarz, SAP BusinessObjects chief talks to in an exclusive interview

Alongside IBM and Oracle, SAP BusinessObjects has emerged as one of the big three survivors of the massive shake-up in the Business Intelligence and Performance Management marketplace. Now that the dust has settled on the acquisitions of Armstrong Laing, Cartesis and Outlooksoft what sort of business has emerged and how is it positioned on the global stage? To answer these questions, Gary Simon, FSN’s managing editor met in London with John Schwarz, a member of SAP’s Executive Board, who counts among his many responsibilities the management of the BusinessObjects division.

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Tagetik CEO and President, Pierluigi Pierallini, talks to FSN

Tagetik is one of a new breed of specialist corporate performance management (CPM) and Financial Governance vendors that has stepped in to fill the void left by the rapid consolidation of performance management marketplace. Tagetik 3.0, its latest product release, is designed to simplify the complexity in the day to day business life of CFO’s and CIO’s through a combination of unified database, built-in know-how and support for popular technology platforms. Gary Simon, FSN’s managing editor, met with the company’s CEO and founder, Pierluigi Pierallini, in the company’s Global headquarters based in Lucca (the regional ones are in Stamford Connecticut, Paris, France and London, UK ) during the recent Tagetik User Conference.

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Interview with Bernard Liautaud - Chairman Business Objects

Following a substantial period as a leader in the Business Intelligence sector, Business Objects has burst onto the scene in performance management by snapping up SRC, ALG and Cartesis in quick succession. Bernard Liautaud, Business Objects' Chairman talks to Gary Simon , FSN's managing editor about the recent market turmoil and how Business Objects is positioning itself to become the leading independent performance management provider.

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Interview - Paul White, Director of Microsoft Dynamics (UK)

Microsoft took the market by storm when it made the decision to enter the business applications space a few years ago. Snapping up some of the most prominent mid-market ERP vendors of the day, Microsoft has continued to build its presence based on its broader technology offerings and a willingness to challenge the way that ERP has developed. In this interview with Paul White, Direct or of Microsoft Dynamics (UK), Gary Simon , FSN\\\'s managing editor, discusses Microsoft\\\'s progress, the challenges and surprises it has faced.

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Interview with Martin Leuw - CEO Iris Group

The IRIS Group is something of an oddity in the world of financial systems. Its product portfolio is unconventional, its CEO hails from the Healthcare industry and it is headquartered in a rather quaint country house to the West of London, far removed from the shiny glass buildings favoured by the rest of the IT industry along the M4 corridor. But within this seemingly incongruous mix are a solid strategy and a corporate culture that lets employees thrive and apparently leaves customers highly satisfied. Martin Leuw, CEO Iris Group shares his unique perspective of the mid-market with Gary Simon, FSN\'s managing editor.

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Interview with Jeremy Roche - CEO CODA plc

In a rapidly consolidating marketplace CODA plc, an AIM listed company, stands out as a beacon of stability. The key to its success has been the strength of it international financial applications, its track record in developing a loyal customer base through organic growth and its ability to create innovative solutions focussed on the finance function. These traits combined with well timed acquisitions and measured expansion into other geographies has positioned CODA very well to take advantage of the rapidly changing dynamics of the marketplace. For example, in recent weeks CODA has made headlines by targeting users of SunSystems, the package developed by Systems Union Group, a business bought by the very acquisitive Infor group in 2006.

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