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Former Managing Editor of Computer Weekly joins Erudine


Erudine, the legacy evolution specialist, has announced the appointment of John Riley as Strategic Advisor. John Riley, who reports to Martin Rice, CEO, will be responsible for raising the profile of innovation at Erudine as it challenges leaders in software development and Information Assurance related markets.

A major boost for Erudine in this challenge is its success in tempting Riley to head-up the UK Innovation Initiative (UKii). The UKii is sponsored by Erudine and works across a range of sectors to identify innovative technology in information security, and to bring this innovation to the right decision makers within large corporations. Supported by a high-profile Advisory Panel of senior corporate IT users, the UKii has experience invaluable to an SME Innovator wanting to enter and understand the corporate world.

Riley will also be responsible for promoting Erudine as a thought leader for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and ensuring it is top of mind when senior industry decision makers and politicians discuss SMEs or relevant IT and Information Assurance capabilities.

“In his many years at Computer Weekly John played a pivotal role for developing strategic direction, identifying business value from IT, and for building in-depth relationships with the corporate IT user community,” said Martin Rice. “John couldn’t have made this move to Erudine at a better time, with customers now realising the benefits of using innovative technologies like Erudine’s Behaviour Engine (EBE) to address Information Assurance related challenges that large-scale, well established vendors simply cannot fulfil”  

John Riley joins Erudine with an impressive track record. In the mid 1990s he set up Computer Weekly’s long standing club for IT Directors (the CW500 Club). He is a Court Assistant of the Information Technologists Company (the City of London livery body for IT), a Fellow of the British Computer Society, and a management committee member of the British Computer Society (BCS) user oriented group, Elite. He is also a member of two Parliamentary / industry groups: the Parliamentary Information Technology Committee (Pitcom); and the Parliamentary/IT action group, Eurim. He is a founder external advisor to de Montfort University’s Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), and a Freeman of the City of London.

Before his career in the IT industry Riley was a Science & Engineering Research Council (SERC) Research Fellow in Archaeological Science at Southampton University. He has a PhD in Mediterranean Roman Archaeology from Manchester University and is also a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (FSA).

About Erudine

Erudine has introduced a radically different method of system development through its core technology, Erudine Behaviour Engine (EBE). An enterprise-grade, integrated development environment that allows systems to be authored and evolved at a low cost and reduced risk, the EBE can deliver up to 90% cost-savings, faster time to market, and true business agility.

EBE builds system behaviour in a way similar to how children learn. The developer teaches EBE, by showing it what to do situation by situation and telling it ‘why’, then correcting any exceptions. EBE gives the developer the ability to visualise and change processes quickly and safely with confidence and ensure that no new behaviour will break existing behaviour.

EBE’s unique technology automates the capture and management of existing behaviour, selection of test cases, and production and modification of software and tests when the behaviour needs to be evolved. EBE offers zero order performance that far exceeds traditional software development techniques, together with seamless integration with enterprise systems.

EBE has been actively used in large-scale private and public critical infrastructure projects including;

  • Complex legacy migration
  • Adaptable security control
  • Situational awareness and decision support
  • Security management framework
  • Secure assured delivery
  • Security compliance audit
  • Simulated environments