
Welcome to Whiteboarding with Frank
With decades of integration market and industry experience, Frank Kenney is a fountain of knowledge on all things technology. Now, he aims to share that awareness with you. Come back every other week for your biweekly dose of thought leadership in this video series from one of technology’s most insightful thinkers and gain perspective on a variety of topics ranging from what’s happening in integration today to what’s on the horizon, poised to disrupt the integration space going forward.
In our first edition of 'Whiteboarding with Frank' I am going to walk you through the ins and outs of integration technology. When we think about integration, the fact remains that it can be a very meaty topic, so let’s break it down in a way we can understand and use it to build up our knowledge of what integration is and why it’s important to enterprises.
A former Gartner analyst and current market evangelist and strategy director, Frank Kenney is widely credited as the creator of the term managed file transfer (MFT), and was the first to write about and discuss its modern architecture, platform, and use cases. Previously, Frank served more than 10 years as a research director at Gartner, where he defined the MFT, B2B gateway, SOA governance, and cloud service brokerage (CSB) markets.
Before joining Cleo, Frank held leadership roles in product marketing, aligning vision and strategy with integration products, services, and messaging. As an independent IT consultant, Frank helped technology providers create, validate, and implement a variety of business strategies.
Frank holds a degree in music technology from the Center for the Media Arts, holds degrees and certifications in digital multimedia and instructional technologies, and studied English and computer science at the University of Tampa.