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Dr. Giles Nelson

Dr. Giles Nelson

Chief Technology Officer, EMEA

Dr. Giles Nelson is focused on providing EMEA customers with innovative business solutions using Progress' early-market technologies throughout the region. Prior to joining Progress Software, he was the co-founder of Apama, the pioneering event processing software vendor acquired by Progress Software in April 2005, where he co-invented the core patented technology.

Nelson is a regular speaker at leading technology and Capital Markets industry events and is published and quoted widely in the media. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge.

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The Reticence to Market Great Ideas in Britain

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Giles Nelson talks to the Economist about the challenges facing entrepreneurship and innovation in Britain, and why too many great ideas coming out of the country often remain on the shelf. Giles shares his thoughts on what the universities and government can do to help get some of these ideas to market.

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Progress Apama Announcing Latest Release 4.2

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Dr. Giles Nelson, Director of Strategy and Apama co-founder, discuss the new capabilities in Apama 4.2 with David Olson of Apama product marketing.

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Developing Event Processing Applications

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Chris Martins and Giles Nelson discuss development of event processing applications.

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Proactive Customer Assurance with Complex Event Processing

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The complexity of any telco’s service provision and billing systems means that often there’s no overall and up-to-date business view of how well customers are being delivered the services they need. By using Event Processing technology, information from multiple different systems can be brought together in one place and presented in a real-time, business-relevant context. Using this can ensure that service level agreements are met, that revenue is not lost and that organisations can be more proactively address customer needs.

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Gain Better Enterprise Visibility of Your SOA

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What if you could gain better visibility of your SOA infrastructure? Listen as Giles Nelson presents his observations on the challenges that many enterprises face when trying to identify business requirements and deploy smart solutions that will support these requirements.
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TradeTech '08 Recap

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Giles Nelson, Senior Director of Strategy and Evangelism, shares his thoughts about this year's TradeTech, Paris.

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Event-driven SOA vs CEP. What is the Difference?

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Hear examples of event-driven styles of business and what industries would truly benefit from an event-driven SOA infrastructure.

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Algorithmic Trading's Growing Role

At the two minute mark in this Channel NewsAsia interview, Dr. Giles Nelson, Senior Director of Strategy and Co-inventor, Apama shares the two key advantages of algo trading, and offers his opinion on the potential of high-frequency trading to give an unfair advantage in the market.

 

Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Britain

Dr. Giles Nelson talks to the Economist and shares his thoughts on how Britain can take a more leading role on the international R&D stage

Real-time Insight into Payments

Progress' own Dr. Giles Nelson explains how complex event processing gives banks the upper hand in the quickly changing payments landscape.