Get to know™ Artesian

Artesian delivers commercially valuable insights that change the way businesses engage with customers, for better, forever.

Find out why smart B2B professionals use the Artesian Social Intelligence Platform or watch our short video to see how we are changing the way businesses engage customers, for better, forever.

Who makes the changes? Get to know™ Companies

Company headlines only tell part of the story.

Artesian’s social intelligence platform delivers crystal clear focus, without the noise – the insight you need to understand the businesses you want to engage with.

Valuable, usable and tailored not just to your company, but to you personally.

What’s their story? Get to know™ People

Information is everywhere.

Artesian’s social intelligence platform delivers crystal clear focus, without the noise – the insight you need to exploit connections and social graphs to facilitate deeper engagement in competitive landscapes.

When to make your move? Get to know™ Markets

Trends fluctuate, but revenues depend on continuous market insight.

Artesian’s social intelligence platform delivers crystal clear focus, without the noise – as much or as little market insight as you need, for one market or thousands.

Trusted by leading brands…

  • Global Radio
  • Sanofi
  • Barclays
  • SITA

Why Artesian?

As well as Sales Impact, the Artesian Social Intelligence Platform also helps you with your Marketing and Research.

Traditional B2B sales operations are being disrupted because smarter, empowered and socially engaged customers expect more. They expect you to know about them and what is happening in their world.

Smart businesses are already listening to customers more closely, which is a good start. However, the smartest B2B sales teams are finding ways to proactively leverage Internet based insights (from web and social media) about ‘companies’, ‘markets’ and ‘people’ to seamlessly connect this insight into Sales and Business Development cycles.

With the Artesian Social Intelligence Platform B2B enterprises can commercially leverage valuable web based insights, and in turn change the way they engage with customers, with dramatic results.

We founded Artesian to help change the way businesses engage customers, for the better, forever. Three core values drive our actions and decision making.

Our Values

We want to change things, we understand people and we deliver

We Want To Change Things

We want to help people and businesses truly engage, to help develop stronger relationships and intimacy. As a result we are by nature redefining the roles of people in contemporary business. Rather than having to rely on static data, we provide key stakeholders in social businesses and social brands with insight that is actually useful and usable, right now.

We Understand People

We know what business people need to make their roles more effective.  We think we are the best around at helping them find and close bigger deals faster.  But the foundation we establish is also critical - we help them to truly listen to their customers and respond to them appropriately; to engage large-scale enterprises and keep an eye on competitors.

We Deliver

The insight we surface directly drives revenue growth for our customers. A bold claim, but one we can support by showcasing the initiatives we work on with our customers.  Our customers rely on us and we’re alert to their needs - and ensure they are met.

Our vision is to build the World’s leading Social Intelligence Platform.

Leadership Team

Our leadership team consists of industry veterans, each with a track record of building successful enterprise software companies at places like Salesforce.com, Aprimo, Then-Solutions, Whitelight, Adaytum, Siebel and Cognos.

Andrew Yates

Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder

Andrew has over 20 years’ experience as a result of leadership roles at Cognos (BI), Misys plc (Banking and Healthcare), Eyretel plc (Call Centre CRM) and most recently as a Senior Vice President with Aprimo Inc (Enterprise Marketing). Andrew also served as CEO at startup Then-Solutions, a leading UK based marketing automation Software developer that was acquired by Aprimo in July 2004. Andrew holds an Honours Degree in Sports Science and Business Administration and is a Post Graduate in Marketing.

Steve Borthwick

Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder

Steve has a 25 year track record, latterly specialising in startups. Prior to co-founding Artesian, Steve was Chief Technology Officer at Then-Solutions (acquired by Aprimo Inc in July 2004) where he pioneered in the area of dynamic content management and publishing. Steve also served as CTO of Whitelight Inc, leading the development of in-memory analytics. Prior to Whitelight, Steve was Business Development Director for Cognos Inc in EMEA. Steve holds an Honours Degree in Computer Science.

Mike Blackadder

Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder

Artesian is Mike’s first co-founded start-up, to which he brings over 25 years of experience in pre-sales, sales and post sales consulting. His role bridges R&D, solution sales and project delivery. A veteran of Business Intelligence and Enterprise Planning, Mike has held leadership roles at Cognos, Whitelight and Adaytum. He is a well-known industry practitioner, now applying the same principles to help Artesian customers succeed.

Dr. Steve Garnett

Chairman of the Board of Directors

Dr. Steve Garnett has had one of the most distinguished careers of any European executive in the Software industry. In a 2009 Daily Telegraph poll, Garnett was named as one of the 50 most influential Britons in Technology. He held various technical and sales positions at Oracle including Director of UK Sales, Vice President European Marketing & Alliances. Garnett joined Siebel Systems in 1996 as Vice President of Europe and was a member of the founder’s circle. He helped the company grow to become the World’s 5th largest Software company. In 2003 Steve joined his former Oracle executive colleague, Marc Benioff, to head European operations and be part of the executive team at salesforce.com. He helped take salesforce.com public in 2004.

Alan Wallace

Alan represents Octopus Investments on the Artesian Board. Prior to joining Octopus, Alan held senior marketing and general management positions at Sara Lee UK Ltd, Rank Hovis McDougall, and Cambridge Nutrition Holdings Ltd. He was also managing director of Dairy Crest and Premier Brands (Hillsdown) and Market Planning Director for GUS. He has over fifteen years’ general management experience. Alan focuses on sourcing deal flow, evaluating and assessing potential investee companies and portfolio management. He has represented Octopus on the boards of True Knowledge, LoveFilm, Zoopla, Steribottle, and PrismaStar. Alan has a PhD in Management Science from Manchester University and graduated with a BA in Economics from Liverpool University.

Jon Lawrence

Finance Director

Jon is an experienced Financial Director with strong exposure to early stage and VC backed software businesses.

As well as currently working with Artesian, Jon is Finance Director at CommonTime Limited and SDS Limited. He has also worked with (or for) the likes of Hill Hofstetter, Talgentra, Xenicom Limited, James Meade Limited and Ernst & Young.

Jon brings extensive experience to Artesian in the following areas: MBO’s, MBI’s, Group Finance, Forecasting, Corporate Restructuring, Venture Capital, Cost Reduction, Contract Management, Financial Regulation, Cash Management, Pricing and Exit Strategy.

Jon is married and enjoys rugby, cricket and travelling.

Allen Timpany

Allen Timpany is one of the UK’s leading serial entrepreneurs. He graduated with a First Class Honours Degree in Thermodynamics, and soon after established Guestel Limited, importing Apple computers into the UK from California. He sold the business to Phillips Electronics and the same year founded Wakebourne Limited, specialising in Local Area Networks. This was in turn sold for $30m. He founded global data networking company Vanco, generating a revenue of $400m by 2007, which is now owned by Indian multinational Reliance Infocom. Allen was a finalist in the World Communications Awards ’Most Influential Person’ and was listed sixth in Management Today’s Top 100 UK Entrepreneurs in 2007. He is married with three children, supports many charity projects in Romania and Uganda and loves motor-racing.

Dale Roberts

Client Services Director

Dale heads up Artesian´s implementation and consulting team, implementing Performance Management solutions. Dale has been involved in Business Intelligence and Performance Management for over fifteen years, initially specialising in financial services data warehousing deployments for major global banking and investment institutions. Prior to Artesian, Dale was with Cognos for over 7 years latterly as European Services Director. Dale has collaborated with many global businesses to help them achieve real and incremental business value from their business intelligence initiatives.

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Customers

Our customers are large B2B enterprises. We are already trusted by global brands like Barclays, EPICOR, Santander, Global Radio and Sanofi-Aventis – and we are growing at 200% year-on-year.

For each customer, we find and deliver commercially valuable, internet based insight that changes the way they engage with their customers. And when they leverage the insight fully – you should see the impact on their business.

Why not read one of our case studies? Or book a demo?

Barclays

Barclays provides financial services to more than 49 million customers worldwide delivering retail banking, corporate banking, wealth management, investment management, investment banking and credit cards across 50 countries spanning Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia.

Read the case study to understand how this leading brand is using the Artesian Social Intelligence Platform.

Business Stream

Business Stream is the largest supplier of water and waste water services to businesses in Scotland. Formed in 2005 in response to the new competitive market Business Stream focuses on providing tailored solutions to businesses the length and breadth of Scotland, ranging from large industrial plants to small, local retail stores.

Read the case study to understand how this leading brand is using the Artesian Social Intelligence Platform.

Epicor

Epicor Software (NASDAQ: EPIC) is a global leader delivering business software solutions to the manufacturing, distribution, service, retail, and hospitality industries with 20,000 customers in more than 140 countries.

Read the case study to understand how this leading brand is using the Artesian Social Intelligence Platform.

Sanofi

Sanofi, a global and diversified healthcare leader, discovers, develops and distributes therapeutic solutions focused on patients’ needs. Sanofi has core strengths in healthcare, with 7 growth platforms: diabetes solutions, human vaccines, innovative drugs, consumer healthcare, emerging markets, animal health and the new Genzyme.

Read the case study to understand how this leading brand is using the Artesian Social Intelligence Platform.

SITA

SITA UK was established in 1988 and currently employs more than 6,000 people. They have a proud history of delivering environmentally responsible and innovative waste solutions throughout the UK. A recycling and resource management company, SITA UK deliver solutions to 12 million residents and 40,000 business customers, to help everyone reduce the impact of their waste on the environment.

Read the case study to understand how this leading brand is using the Artesian Social Intelligence Platform.

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Ovum: On the Radar // Artesian Solutions

Ovum believes that with its management expertise, experience, and backing allied to proven success in several major B2B organizations, Artesian is well positioned to thrive in the web intelligence domain. Read the full On-The-Radar report.

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The Internet as a Competitive Source To Drive Sales Productivity

This short paper talks about the subject of the semantic web, providing a definition and context and outlining how this can be exploited to drive commercial productivity particularly in a sales driven CRM process.

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Making Internet Surveillance Projects Successful

Applying best project principles to your surveillance initiatives will deliver your solution successfully and efficiently.

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The Semantic Hub – Why it’s important for business?

This article talks about the subject of semantics and the semantic web, what that means and why exploiting technology in this field could provide a key competitive advantage for companies that are savvy enough to spot the trends early enough.

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The Seven Behaviours of High Performing Sales People and the Power of Surveillance in Sales

The hardened reality for sales representatives is that the time-tested practice of “putting the right message in front of the right person at the right time” is no longer enough. In order to meet the demands of this new selling environment, dynamic companies wishing to exploit the wealth of insight available on the web are implementing sales intelligence initiatives as a way to improve the effectiveness of the sales force and enrich the quality of leads in the sales pipeline.

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Why SO4B is Relevant to Business and Important to BI

Social networking is firmly on the radar for businesses. Early reactions which included blocking access to employees because of fear of security and time wasting are being rapidly reconsidered. Suspicion and doubt are being replaced with interest, adoption and innovation.

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Taking a sip from the firehose

It has been worked out that there are roughly 5,000 new pages of information being “added to the internet every single second of every day, related studies estimate that the number of characters or “bytes” of information currently accessible from the internet and corporate networks is fast approaching the ominous sounding 1 Yottabyte.

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Barclays teams with Artesian Solutions to roll out real time competitive insight.

Barclays provides financial services to more than 49 million customers worldwide delivering retail banking, corporate banking, wealth management, investment management, investment banking and credit cards across 50 countries spanning Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. To successfully meet the needs of customers and clients in local markets around the globe Barclays employs approximately 145,000 people.

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Artesian teams with Business Stream to tap the web for sales leads and opportunities

Business Stream is the largest supplier of water and waste water services to businesses in Scotland. Formed in 2005 in response to the new competitive market Business Stream focuses on providing tailored solutions the length and breadth of Scotland, ranging from large industrial plants to small, local retail stores. Business Stream prides themselves on being easy to work with and using customer insight to deliver demonstrable benefit for their customers.

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