Stephane Dubois founded Xignite to pioneer the creation of pure-play packaged financial web services products. He was among the first entrepreneurs to productize this emerging technology. Today, Stephane is driving Xignite to become one of the leading players in the "Web Service Economy".
Prior to Xignite, Stephane was vice president of product marketing at Advent Software, the leading provider of software solutions to the investment management industry. During his tenure the company went public, doubled its market share to 45%, and grew from $20M to $100M in revenue. Stephane was responsible for building a highly skilled product marketing organization overseeing product and market strategy, market validation, and positioning for all product lines. His team also developed the industry’s first institutional account aggregation service for investors and their advisors.
Prior to Advent, Stephane held senior management positions in the product marketing organizations of Walker Interactive Systems and Oracle Corporation. During the client/server computing wave, he led teams that developed and marketed financial applications in areas such as accounting and purchasing over multiple product releases touching hundreds of corporate customers.
Stephane holds a Master of Science in Management degree from M.I.T. Sloan School of Management and both M.S. and B.S. degrees in international management from the MBA Institute in Paris.
Xignite offers a myriad of financial data to its customer base via standard Web services. How does the company keep data feeds moving in real-time while allowing cusotmers to mix and match data? Stephane Dubois, chairman and CEO of Xiginite explains.
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) enables companies to establish services and applications far more quickly than in the past, says Stephane Dubois, the Chairman, CEO and Founder of Xignite. Until a couple of years ago, SaaS was driven by the IT departments. Now, Dubois says, the business side is more aware of the potential of these emerging platforms and is pushing for their use.
In this IT Link podcast hosted by Mike Vizard, Stephane DuBois, the CEO of a provider of data services for the financial services industry called Xignite, explains why the current financial crisis is going to herald a new era in enterprise computing powered largely by cloud computing architectures.
Alana Taylor from Mashable Interviews Stephane Dubois, the CEO and Founder of Xignite. Stephane discusses Xignite's goals, special features and Splice, their new platform for creating web services mashups.