On the cover this month , Gérard Guinamand , Chief Data Officer at ENGIE , discusses the leading energy company ’ s need to gather , store and enrich the group ’ s data , which it then needed to share as widely as possible , and how this inspired it to become an APIfirst , data-driven enterprise .

Guinamand explains why it turned to Axway for a new group-wide API management capability and discusses Axway ’ s valuable contribution to ENGIE ’ s new API-first enterprise . Read more about this on page 58 .

Another of our customer stories this issue sees how Archroma , a global provider of specialty chemicals operating in over 100 countries , has utilised Edgescan ’ s technology in order to continuously scan its systems for vulnerabilities across its IT infrastructure . Edgescan offers a service combining automation and human validations to minimise false positives . Find this on page 63 .

Our ‘ Editor ’ s Question ’ this issue centres around how CIOs should go about selecting the right tools to glean information from Big Data systems . We hear from Bill Scudder , SVP , AIoT General Manager at Aspen

Technology ; Volha Smirnova , Internet of Things and Analytics BDM , EMEA Centre of Excellence at Software AG ; and Abed Hamandi , Senior Director – Head of Professional Services , South & East Europe , Central Asia & EMA , SAS .

A hot topic this month is cloud migration as it is now an unavoidable reality for organisations . Adrian Rowley , Senior Director EMEA , Gigamon , discusses the foundations that should be implemented to build a successful cloud migration strategy , on page 38 .

This month ’ s ‘ Country Focus ’ magnifies the technology landscape in Israel – particularly the data centre sector . Franek Sodzawiczny , Founder and CEO at GTR , discusses why the organisation has invested in this part of the world when broadening its data centre portfolio , and how he expects the country ’ s data centre landscape to evolve over the coming years .

To round off , we ‘ Get To Know ’ Andy Connor , Channel Director EMEA , Subzero Engineering . We hear about his career journey so far and how he likes to relax and unwind outside the office .

I hope you enjoy the read and if you ’ d like to contribute to any upcoming editions , please don ’ t hesitate to contact me at alix @ lynchpinmedia . co . uk

Alix Pressley Editor

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