Brian Berns, CEO of Knoa Software, has joined the APMdigest Vendor Forum.
Berns is a successful software industry veteran with over 20 years of executive experience, including as President at Ericom Software. He also held the position of Division VP at FICO and SVP of North America at Brio Software (acquired by Oracle). Additionally, Berns has been the founding member of several successful software start-ups including Certona and Proginet. Berns has a BA from Yeshiva University, an MS from NYU, including studies at the NYU Stern School of Business MBA program, and computer science at the graduate school of the NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
Knoa Software delivers solutions that generate unique insights for the optimization of the end-user experience and improved efficiencies for enterprise applications from vendors including SAP, Oracle and others. Knoa’s patented software provides CIOs and business executives with the actionable metrics needed to ensure that organizations and end-users realize the full value of their software investment. Headquartered in New York City, Knoa helps hundreds of global corporations and government organizations make impactful, real-time, fact-based decisions that enrich and maximize the experience and productivity of over a million end users.
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