The Software Intelligence Podcast: Recent Episodes
Dave Anderson
Hear first-hand from the people behind some of the most important digital services on the planet. The software that runs the world, is highly complex, from the interconnections of banks, to healthcare, autonomous vehicles, ecommerce, and the apps that help us stay connected.
Whilst machines and AI play an increasingly important role in helping us maintain application performance, it's the humans that are innovating, dreaming, optimizing so we all can once again, be spoilt with digital services that makes our lives easy.
Dave Anderson, a digital experience evangelist and keynote speaker, talks with those at the forefront of cloud transformation, devops and delivering customer experience
In this episode, we hear from Sean Mack, CIO & CISO at Wiley. He talks about how Wiley has transformed into a technology enabled company and delves into topics like cloud transformation and DevOps. We hear how shared data models aid collaboration, and enable Wiley to deliver amazing product experiences to researchers, educators, and learners around the world.
In this episode, we hear from Christian Heckelmann, Senior DevOps Engineer and Simon Pilar, Director, IT Service Operations, at ERT. They talk about the complexity of technology today, the importance of software to clinical trials and operations transformation. We also hear about ERT’s adoption of Keptn, Dynatrace’s open source control plane for cloud automation, and how this is enabling ERT to deploy better quality software faster.
In this episode, we hear from Kailey Smith, Application Architect at the State of Minnesota about how her team kept essential unemployment services available for citizens when there was an unprecedented surge in demand during the pandemic. She also discusses innovation, the women that influenced her life, the similarities between archaeology and ITOps, and why Davis would make for an excellent assistant archaeologist.
In this episode, we hear from Jared Vils, Director of IT Operations at Schneider National, who discusses how this $5 bn dollar transportation business juggles the pick-up and drop-off of 17,000 trailers and containers per day and relies on technology to make this possible. Jared also outlines the move to APIs and how almost every part of the business is run through analytics.
In this episode, we hear from Eric Harris, Director of Enterprise Systems at Dish about how the company has transformed to include wireless communications alongside its consumer streaming service - Sling TV. He discusses how the business is building out its wireless operations whilst nurturing the growth of their Sling TV offering, and how proactively improving the customer experience has been key for the organisation. As part of the drive to improve the customer experience, Eric also outlines how Dish has been resolving issues before they impact customers through the use of Dynatrace.
In this episode, we hear from Brian Rutherford, Director of Software Development at U-Haul. He outlines the complexities of managing a custom, and highly complex software ecosystem, as well as the challenges of keeping track of hundreds of thousands of vehicles that are constantly being transferred between millions of customers, across 21,000 locations. He also highlights how Dynatrace’s Session Replay capabilities allows U-Haul to visually replay the complete digital experience of any customer or employee using its software, giving them powerful insights into how applications are used and understanding problems that users encounter.
In this episode, we hear from Mark Kaplan, Senior Director, Information Technology at BARBRI. He discusses how the company continues to innovate in its online platform and why this innovation is so important to business success. He also highlights how automation and AI have freed up his team, so they can spend more time on technology development and innovation.
In this episode, we hear from Jen Rolfe, Corporate Marketing Director at Dynatrace about the impact of COVID-19 on our own events team. She discusses how virtual events can still lead to real human connections that have a lasting impact. Lastly, she outlines why remaining creative despite reduced physical contact is vital in our new digital world.
In this episode, we hear from Kevin McNall, Director of Digital Projects and Practices at Rack Room Shoes, about the company’s digital transformation. He talks about how the company was able to support the shift to online during the pandemic, without a centralised distribution centre and within a very short period of time. He also highlights how AI, automation and a laser like focus on digital customer experience has enabled the company to increase conversation rates by 25% and drive faster innovation.
In this episode, we hear from Vitality Health CDO David Priestly about the revolutionary approach they’ve taken to proactive customer service. He explains how the company identifies performance problems in real-time and proactively reaches out to them to address the problem. This approach has helped Vitality health to improve customer loyalty and significantly reduce churn. David also talk about how Vitality sped up innovation during COVID-19 to allow partners to be onboarded quickly despite the pandemic. This ensured customers could continue to earn and redeem rewards that were more relevant to the current situation.
Jay Cotton from Kroger talks about the supermarket's cloud transformation journey, using new platforms to enhance the reliability of apps and ultimately deliver better experiences. He talks in depth about automation, retaining top talent and how software has helped him see more of his kids.