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SAP acquiring Signavio is a cheap play to migrate enterprises onto S4/HANA. Instead it just handed the market to Celonis
Why we think SAP acquiring Signavio is a non-event and actually frees Celonis from its SAP shackles to inspire its loyal following The initial buzz from SAP leaders with its Signavio acquisition all points to helping its clients migrate from legacy systems onto cloud-based S4/HANA applications. While that is a worthy goal, SAP needs to embrace how to […]
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Burning Platform: A review of RISE with SAP
Brian Sommer and I have recorded 12 episodes in this series – see index here . Last couple of months, we have had several guests – Rob Kugel of Ventana, Josh Greenbaum of EA Consulting, Bonnie Tinder of Raven Intel,…
The Analyst Cam: RISE with SAP
As we have moved to virtual vendor briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short segments (with permission from vendors), as part of my Analyst Cam series. I explained here I have been trying to fit the many Analyst Cam episodes…
Workday and Peakon. My take.
Workday agreed to acquire Peakon. There is an obvious logic to this deal. Engagement tools are an important part of HRTECH today, and the cycle of larger vendor absorbing edge innovators continues. Cue Disney circle of life music. Engagement tools have done well under COVID-19, with the move to more remote work etc. Whereas 2 […]
Partner Post: How AI, BI, and DevOps will shape businesses in 2021
It’s become both a cliche and a battle cry: the only certainty of 2021 is that nothing is certain. This, of course, has made predicting how business software and the technology industry at large will change this year exceptionally difficult. One thing we know is that remote work or hybrid office-and-remote work will have a […]
SAP acquiring @Signavio into Business Process Intelligence unit
I first met Signavio CEO Gero Decker in 2008, when he was a researcher at Hasso Platner Institut and emailed me about promoting their BPMN poster — a push to have BPMN (then version 1.1) recognized as a standard for process modeling. I attended the academic BPM conference in Milan that year but Gero wasn’t […]
76% Of Enterprises Prioritize AI & Machine Learning In 2021 IT Budgets
43% of enterprises say their AI and Machine Learning (ML) initiatives matter “more than we thought,” with one in four saying AI and ML should have been their top priority sooner. 50% of enterprises plan to spend more on AI and ML this year, with 20% saying they will be significantly increasing their budgets. 56% […]
UiPath will finally find its true path as IPO beckons. Now can its leadership develop some humility to embrace this incredible opportunity?
Having introduced RPA to the world in 2012 I have (sometimes grimly) clung to the belief that RPA will eventually find its path to be a vital cog in the enterprise technology potpourri. Blue Prism opted for the comfort of floating on the London stock exchange less than four years later in 2016, where its founders and […]
A Business Lifeboat Strategy
In 1790, at about the inception of the US Constitution, the American lumber industry was centered in Maine, then part of Massachusetts. Overharvesting timber to meet the demands of a growing domestic market as well as a robust international market for ship masts, planking and other naval stores eventually started the industry’s westward migration, first to the […]
Virtual conference best practices: 2020 in review
Wow, it’s been over two months since my last post. I took a long break over the end of the year since there wasn’t a lot going on that inspired me to write, and we were in conference hiatus. Now that (virtual) conferences are ramping up again for 2021, I wanted to share some of […]
Burning Platform: Business Continuity
Brian Sommer and I have recorded 12 episodes in this series – see index here. Last couple of months, we have had several guests – Rob Kugel of Ventana, Josh Greenbaum of EA Consulting, Bonnie Tinder of Raven Intel, Frank…
Top 10 Tech Job Skills Predicted To Grow The Fastest In 2021
According to Burning Glass Technologies, the two tech job skills paying the highest salary premiums today and in 2021 are IT Automation ($24,969) and AI & Machine Learning ($14,175). The average salary premiums for the most in-demand tech skills range from $4,204 to nearly $25,000. Startups valued at $1 billion or more are 33% more […]
10 Ways AI Is Improving Cannabis Yields And Security
According to BDS Analytics, the Covid-19 pandemic drove retail sales up 35% above industry forecasts, accelerated by cannabis businesses being declared “essential” for medical purposes in virtually every U.S. legal market. Fueled by strong consumer demand, annual legal (medical and adult-use) sales are projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21%, […]
The proposed Atos-DXC takeover is papering over some very deep cracks from a bygone era
The IT services market has arrived at its most critical infection point in 20 years, where the role of service providers that survive the Covid era will be those that have made the shift from support firm (Phase 1) to a business partner (Phase 2). We’ve talked about this services shift ever since Tom Reuner […]
Event Report: The #CES2021 Preview – What’s Hot And Useful In The Enterprise
Virtual CES Kicks Off The Conference Season For 2021 Source: R Wang This year’s CES will be all virtual as with all pandemic events. Last year they brought in more than 171,000 guests, 6500 press and media, and had almost 3 million net square feet of exhibits with 4419 exhibiting companies. As one of the […]
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