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.
Workday and the Age of Intelligence
Mike McNamara is CEO of a remarkable $ 25 bn a year company that many people do not know much about. Flex is contract manufacturer for a wide range of products from automobiles to medical devices. Its design and shop floor fingerprints show on a wide range of products from Cisco routers to components for […]
NetSuite: Still alive and kicking
Oracle OpenWorld had even more going on than usual. Larry Ellison was so focused on autonomy facilitated by database version 18c that he had only slide for a number of other features it will introduce like 5 times faster RAC. Thomas Kurian, in his keynote covered very wide ground and he barely had time to […]
Workday Rising: Sneak Preview from Dan Beck
Workday’s annual user conference, Workday Rising, is in Chicago starting today. The European version is in Barcelona in a few weeks. It’s always an enjoyable event with “The Citizens of the Cloud” – some of the happiest customers in the world. Founders Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri showcase an entertaining keynote, and this year I am […]
Oracle Autonomy: A Giant Leap
In writing my last couple of books, Silicon Collar and SAP Nation, I have observed how hypocritical the IT industry has been about automation. AI, robotics, drones are good for customers but not in reducing tech labor? The worst offenders are outsourcers with their huge labor pools. Software vendors have been skittish about cannibalizing labor […]
Plex and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
I first wrote about the Fourth Industrial Revolution in the 2013 book The Digital Enterprise. A collaboration with the CEO of Software AG, most of the examples profiled there were Germany based. At the same time, companies like GE were rolling out their vision of the Industrial Internet in the US and elsewhere. Today, it is far more mainstream […]
Oracle OpenWorld enhanced expectations
Oracle OpenWorld started Sunday. I am attending with more enhanced expectations than I have in previous years. As a baseline, I expect to hear updates on Oracle SaaS – financials, HR, ERP, CRM and on the NetSuite business unit. With a very strong 1Q where application revenues went up 62% year-on-year, it will be interesting […]
IFS extends its vertical focus
Readers know I think the software market is at a pivot point. We have plenty of hr, financial and basic CRM functionality, but very little in the way of industry specific functionality. I have always liked IFS’s focus on complex, often heavily-regulated, asset-intensive industries and on product and asset centric break-fix and maintenance-based service organizations. […]
Cloud, Digital: a Continental Divide?
DSAG, the SAP user group for German speaking Europe, shared results of a recent survey involving more than 500 decision-makers from IT and various business units. Reading it I was struck by similarities and differences between how the US and European (with the DSAG base as a large proxy) markets view cloud computing and digital transformation opportunities […]
Oracles momentum
I tend to not listen to vendor quarterly earnings calls. I get much better value from briefings at industry analyst events and from customer feedback. I also find it irritating that executives brag and beat up on competitors on these calls knowing full well they will themselves be targeted a few days or few weeks […]
Predictions, Redactions
By Vinnie Mirchandani on October 3, 2017
At their annual Gartner Symposium event in Orlando yesterday, Peter Sondergaard predicted: “AI will be a net job creator starting in 2020” To that, Jason Hiner at TechRepublic snarkily commented “Gartner’s research chief couldn’t have opened the company’s flagship conference with a more astounding proclamation if he had claimed that next year’s event would be held on […]
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