Vinnie Mirchandani
CEO of Deal Architect, a top advisory boutique recognized in The Black Book of Outsourcing, author of a widely praised book on technology enabled innovation, The New Polymath, prolific blogger, writing about technology-enabled innovation at New Florence, New Renaissance and about waste in technology at Deal Architect. Previously Analyst at Gartner, Partner with PwC Consulting. Keynoted at many business and technology conferences and has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, The Financial Times, CIO Magazine, and other executive and technology publications.
SAP and Qualtrics: Experiences matter, but how much?
My daughter, Rita is about to embark on what she calls a Gap Quarter. I don’t want to steal her thunder as she plans to blog about it but it is a play on a Gap Year and what us old fogies call sabbaticals, even though few of us have experienced that concept either. It fits […]
IBM Red Hat: Reading the tea leaves
I have certain core IT values. I like customers to buy versus build systems . Have long been a buy cheerleader. But in return, I expect vendors to build not buy. So, I have never been a fan of big acquisitions. Certainly not at massive multiples. So my initial reaction to IBM’s $ 34 billion play for Red […]
Oracle OpenWorld: Thoughts from afar
I was not at OOW this week, but glad I got a sneak preview from Steve Miranda. I also got to watch several of the keynotes on my iPad – from the home office, from a café in NYC, from my hotel room in NYC and from LaGuardia airport. So, I was productive on other matters […]
SAP CX Live better afternoons than mornings
I was asked about the couple of days I spent at the SAP CX event in Barcelona last week, and my response was “afternoons were better than mornings”. True enough, given the body was jet lagged. But even in content, the morning keynotes and press conferences were subdued. In contrast, the small group analyst meetings […]
SAPs Rainbow Coalition
I spent a day at SAP TechEd last week. I was there primarily to meet some customers and execs for interviews for SAP Nation. I knew the theme of “open” would be prominent during the event, but I was not prepared for the extremely wide range of tools and technologies that now define SAP Nation. […]
A different Vegas. A very different Workday.
This was my sixth trip to Vegas this year. Coming from humid Florida, I have a routine for that city. Gallons of water and lotion to compensate for the heat and dryness. Gear to protect against the excess of artificial light and sound. But this time in town for Workday Rising, Vegas felt a bit […]
Sneak Preview: Workday Rising
It’s an annual ritual. A Workday executive does our readers a favor and shares a curtain raiser on their Rising event, which this year is expected to draw over 10,000 attendees. This time it is Barbry McGann, senior vice president of products. She leads product management for applications including Workday Financial Management, Workday HCM, and […]
Inforum – peeling an onion
I wrote last week that I was looking forward to getting an update on Infor’s verticals – hospitality, healthcare, manufacturing, logistics, retail and others. At Inforum in Washington this week, I only got a detailed briefing about the Retail vertical. So, in the couple of days I spent at Inforum this week I kept thinking this is […]
Dreamforce Keynote – the good and not-so-good
I am not at the Salesforce event this week but changed my travel plans to make sure I could watch yesterday’s streaming of the 2 hour keynote. Some of it was predictable. Marc Benioff has an admirable loyalty to Hawaii, friends in the music industry, Monastic monks and Deepak Chopra and as far back as […]
Two HCM institutions
By Vinnie Mirchandani on October 2, 2018
As Workday Rising kicks off in Vegas, it is time to also recognize two other HCM resources which allow us to keep annual tabs on the changing face of HR HR Executive magazine announces their annual list of top products “This year’s winning products represent the full gamut of priorities facing HR leaders: from employee financial […]
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