Charles Brett is a business/technology analyst consultant. His specialist areas include enterprise software, blockchain and enterprise mobility tech (including metering). Specific industry sectors of interest and experience include finance (especially systems supporting wholesale finance), telecommunications and energy.
Charles has spoken at multiple industry conferences, has written for numerous publications (including the London Times and the Financial Times). He was the General Chair of the bi-annual High Performance Systems Workshop, 2005.
In addition he is an author and novelist. His Technology books include: Making the Most of Mobility Vol I (eBook, 2012); Explaining iTunes, iPhones and iPads for Windows Users (eBook, 2011); 5 Axes of Business Application Integration (2004). His published novels, in the Corruption Series, include: The HolyPhone Confessional Crisis, Corruption’s Price: A Spanish Deceit and Virginity Despoiled. The fourth in The Corruption Series - Resurrection - has is now available.
Charles has a B.A. and M.A in Modern History from the University of Oxford. He has lived or worked in Italy, Abu Dhabi, South Africa, California and New York, Spain, Israel, Estonia and Cyprus.
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Milton Security has announced variable billing plans for customers. It will allow them to buy access to the company's services on a monthly, quarterly...
Sana Commerce, an eCommerce platform for SAP and Microsoft Dynamics published the findings of its Benchmark Report for Manufacturing E-commerce. Alongside Sapio Research, Sana...
This is Charles Brett's start-of-the-week Enterprise Times ‘blockchain catch-up’ Week 8. Necessarily it is idiosyncratic and selective.
It is not intended to be comprehensive but...
IoT connectivity solution provider Eseye has signed a strategic deal with TELUS. The deal sees TELUS invest US$23.6m in Eseye through its TELUS Ventures arm....