Long will manage DiData's sales team and promote a broader range of services into the company's client base, with the aim of addressing clients' business challenges.
He will also be focused on accentuating the It service provider's executive engagement program.
Long has spent the last 22 years in a variety of senior executive positions at a number of enterprise software and services firms in Australia and North America, where he specialised in sales management, services management and operations, and software and service company alliances.
"I am intent on working with all of our sales teams to ensure we are taking solutions in these three strategic areas to every one of our customers," he said.
Long began his IT career in Australia in 1985 with professional services firm Accenture, moving from programmer, to business analyst, to project manager and business consultant.
He then worked for ERP software vendor Epicor (formerly Platinum Software) as Asia-Pacific director of consulting and managing director for A/NZ, before joining e-commerce software maker InterWorld as regional VP for Asia-Pacific.
From 1999 to 2001, he was a joint founder and executive vice president of Q Strategies, a US-based services firm specialising in e-commerce and messaging software implementation, based in Boulder, Colorado.
Long returned to Australia in 2001, to work in divisional management roles at software companies including SAS Institute and PeopleSoft.
In 2006, he moved into the consulting space with a start-up software company, developing software programs to manage performance-based initiatives.
Most recently, he was with ERP software company Lawson as Director of Professional Services for A/NZ.
Issue: 281 | July