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.
Time for Oracle Nation?
I have analyzed Oracle applications business since the early 90s – first at PwC, then Gartner, now at Deal Architect. I have long been a Larry Ellison admirer, much less so of his company’s applications. It has been a perennial, promising, second ranked “Avis” in the applications market. The problem is their “we try harder” […]
Where have all the process visionaries gone?
A recent visit to an Amazon Fulfillment Center was eye-opening. They have completely redefined the old warehouse pick, pack, ship mindset. It’s now stow, pick, pack, verify, and in their lingo, SLAM and “chaotic storage”. Kiva robots and miles of conveyor belts bring work to employees not the other way round. Scanners, scales, sensors monitor […]
Cloud Applications – A long, winding road dotted with Bystanders
Frank Scavo’s Computer Economics has a nice post about the the long, winding road – the slow customer march to cloud applications. Bill Kutik pointed to similar slow movement more specific to HCM cloud applications in a recent LinkedIn post. My recent book and my advisory work provide an additional perspective to their data. I identified a large […]
Control your own destiny when it comes to EOL of your packages
A recent Rimini Street survey says that in spite of the announced 2025 end of life for core applications in SAP Business Suite 7 ERP product and older versions, “Of the IT leaders surveyed, two-thirds state they either have no plans to migrate to S/4HANA (35%) or are undecided about moving to S/4HANA (32%) ” IDC, on […]
Zoho’s strikingly different global path
I have heard Zoho talk about doing business in UAE and Nigeria. That is so different from other cloud vendors which tend to mostly focus on N. America and Europe. Over the last decade, their US revenues have steadily declined to now about 40%. Not because the US, is not growing, because other regions have […]
The IFS-Acumatica-EQT “powerhouse”?
Part of me is excited by the announcement that EQT, the private equity investor in IFS is also buying Acumatica. I have been saying for a while even after two decades of cloud applications, there are shockingly few operational applications for manufacturing and other industrial markets. But the announcement also has me asking “so what?” The good […]
Stant: RPA in a Manufacturing setting
When you think of automation on the shop floor you think robotics, IoT and AR/VR. On the other hand, when you talk to executives in white collar industries about automation, the conversation usually drifts to bots. Most SIs now have a Robotic Process Automation (RPA) practice area and most of their references tend to be […]
Workfront – Modern Work, Modern Markets
Many vendors talk about the “Future of Work”. It’s usually in the future tense. They forget that the future is already here. The BLS adds many brand new occupations in its listings every few years. We glibly talk about the “gig economy” when in many cases 70 to 80% of corporate talent is already on […]
The Oracle Enigma
Rimini Street recently conducted a survey of Oracle customers. Oracle and Rimini have long been in litigation, so I would read the results with a nuanced viewpoint, but it does not paint the picture of a very happy Oracle Nation. As an analyst, I am particularly interested in products and competitive positioning. One of the more […]
Plex ML project – something every software vendor/systems integrator could emulate
By Vinnie Mirchandani on August 26, 2019
Plex ML project – something every software vendor/systems integrator could emulate Machine Learning is a hot topic. Every software vendor is talking about ML and AI in their products. Plex applied ML to something very different – an understanding of how their customers configure parameters in the Plex system. This conversation with Jerry Foster, CTO, […]
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