Acquired Tastes:
Consolidation in the Data Biz
AIR DATE FEBRUARY 24, 2020
Most data analysts expected some consolidation in 2019, but… whoa! Who would have thought we’d see all that?! Google bought Looker; Salesforce bought Tableau; Qlik bought Attunity; IDERA bought Wherescape. What does this all mean?
Check out this episode of Query This! to find out. Host, Eric Kavanagh, will interview several experts, including Anthony Brooks-Williams of HVR, Stephen Boyle of Aelius Consulting Corp, and Dick Morell, former Gartner CTO who now consults EU agencies.
Guests
Stephen Boyle
Managing Partner at Aelius. Stephen Boyle is a business leader for hi-tech companies with extensive experience in software, business applications and infrastructure sales across direct and indirect models. He specializes in recognizing and leading the case for change in driving new business models, and identifying new customer requirements to deliver improved performance through the adoption of leading-edge solutions to take advantage of the opportunities presented by digital transformation.
Anthony Brooks-Williams
CEO at HVR. Anthony brings with him a proven track record of scaling global enterprise software companies, including RainsStor, where, as SVP of Global Sales, he built field teams and drove the growth that ultimately lead to the company’s acquisition by Teradata. Before that, Anthony was founder and CEO of Coherent Software Corp, which offered auditing and recovery solutions based on SQL Server log-based capture. He remained with the company after it was acquired by GoldenGate in 2005, driving key partnerships and building its SQL Server replication team, and continued in his post after Oracle acquired GoldenGate in 2010.
