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.
Why midmarket customers love Workday
Since its early days, I have heard Workday executives talk about having a highly scalable cloud so large companies would feel comfortable moving off their on-premise finance and human resources applications. So, it is not surprising that multinational customers like United Technologies can consolidate over 100 payroll systems across 80 countries on Workday, and many […]
Oracle: Does good luck also come in threes?
1. Oracle does very well in the premier version of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for “Cloud Core Financial Management Suites for Midsize, Large and Global Enterprises”. Only Oracle’s ERP cloud and Workday are in the Leader’s quadrant, and Oracle’s NetSuite subsidiary just barely missed getting there. 2. Oracle had a very impressive cloud performance in […]
Maybe this will spur SAP?
I honestly cannot remember the last time SAP showed in the lower left quadrant – for niche players – in a Gartner MQ. But in the latest MQ for “Cloud Core Financial Management Suites for Midsize, Large and Global Enterprises” , it does. That has to be a concern because SAP has been positioning S/4HANA, […]
Are ERP vendors in touch with a changing services economy?
UNIT4 had an analyst day last week. FinancialForce is hosting its user conference this week. I missed both due to other commitments but I see lots of tweets from fellow analysts. Good to see both vendors, focused on service sectors, get the attention. The services sector has been on my mind for several gut-wrenching changes […]
Theres gold in them thar piles of contracts
The category of Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) software has been rapidly evolving from its document management and audit roots to automation of complex legal language and sophisticated measurement of exposure to risk. That came out loud and clear when I interviewed Bill Hewitt, CEO of Exari last year for my book, Silicon Collar Our vision […]
Here comes the automation whiplash
As I pointed out in my book, Silicon Collar, for years now analysts like Gartner and academics at places like Oxford U have been predicting doom and gloom in massive job loss from machines. Even years after their predictions, there have been few to none job losses but they have not bothered to update their […]
Rimini Street: 50 shades of grey
Rimini Street has announced general availability of support for a wide range of database platforms, including IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, the SAP Sybase family. They have previously supported Oracle and SAP HANA databases and a wide range of applications from those vendors. The range of products they can support is impressive. They have been […]
More Slow-Motion Automation
In this Strategy+Business article I summarized a century of automation from Silicon Collar like UPC scanners in groceries and ATM machines in banking and related impact of jobs. The summary: History shows that new technologies evolve faster than society adopts them. There has been much hype and hysteria around the contemporary crop of automation technologies […]
CIOs love their jobs
I have not heard that in a long time and so was struck by that statement in this press release from Harvey Nash, the recruiting firm and KPMG, the public accounting and advisory firm announcing results from their annual CIO survey. I asked for an advance copy and they kindly sent me one. CIOs thrive […]
Does the enterprise matter?
By Vinnie Mirchandani on June 4, 2017
I love Mary Meeker’s annual Internet Trends report. This year though it struck me that over 95% of her 355 slides focused on consumer world – digital advertising, ecommerce, ride-sharing, gaming. wearables and digital healthcare etc. The “vertical” growth in the report over the last few years has been a focus on China and India’s […]
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