The coming Enterprise Software Hurricane
In interviewing SAP customers for the upcoming book, I ended up classifying them broadly into four groups. I termed the first three: a) Risk-takers who are trying out new Leonardo ML or IoT projects, developing new functionality with its Cloud Platform, moving to S/4HANA in the cloud; b) Modernizers who are moving to S/4 on […]
Six Requirements for Growing and Scaling Autonomous Mobility
As we enter a period of autonomous vehicle pilot deployments it is instructive to understand how far we’ve come in making these vehicles an achievable reality, and what we still need to accomplish before autonomous fleets can address the mobility goals, we’ve set for consumer transportation and logistics. Technological innovation and adoption typically follow particular […]
What IoT Leaders Do To Drive Greater Results
IoT Leaders are achieving cost and revenue gains of at least 15% or more, while laggards see less than 5%. Pursuing 80% more IoT use cases compared to their peers, IoT Leaders are progressing faster down the learning curve of monetizing their application areas. IoT Leaders anticipate that their IoT use cases will boost their […]
Top 25 IoT Startups To Watch In 2019
26,792 startups are relying on IoT as one of their main technologies to launch new products and services and support platform-based business models according to Crunchbase. 78.4% of IoT startups Crunchbase tracks have had two funding rounds or less with seed, angel and early-stage rounds being the most common. IoT startup funding reached $16.7B in […]
Digital Transformation’s Missing Link Is Zero Trust
Enterprises will invest $2.4T by 2020 in digital transformation technologies including cloud platforms, cognitive systems, IoT, mobile, robotics, and integration services according to the World Economic Forum. IDC predicts worldwide spending on the technologies and services that enable the digital transformation of business practices, products, and organizations will reach $1.97T in 2022. Digital transformation software and services […]
Polishing brand ERP
Kudos to Cindy Jutras for her study “Real Facts About ERP Implementation”. Her survey showed that two-thirds of respondents graded their ERP implementation as “successful” or “very successful.” The survey found 31% thought their ERP project was at least a partial success, while 2% thought they were “not very successful.” Only one out of 315 thought their […]
Snowed in at the @OpenText Analyst Summit 2019
Mark Barrenechea, OpenText’s CEO and CTO, kicked off the analyst summit with his re:imagine keynote here in Boston amidst a snowy winter storm that ensures a captive audience. He gave some of the current OpenText stats –100M end users over 120,000 customers, 2.8B in revenue last year — before expanding into a review of how […]
AI and the implementation consultant
I recently read an article which said “AI will not replace accountants and auditors, but accountants and auditors that use AI can replace those that don’t.” I predict that will also be true of implementation consultants in the next few years. SAP has invested in automation to analyze current ECC configurations, and to inspect custom […]
Software Maintenance "Empty Calories"
At a conference in 2006, I presented a Top 10 list of technology expenses which to me represented “empty calories”. Top of that list was Software Maintenance with the likes of Oracle, IBM and SAP Unbelievably, in the dozen years since, a vast majority of on-prem customers have not moved to the cloud and the value […]
AI Adoption Challenges – 12 Lessons From The Trenches
In 2015, when I was given the chance to lead a services portfolio that included AI, I was quite excited for two reasons. One – it perfectly suited my geeky interests (especially my passion for math) and two – it seemed to me that I was back in 2000 with ERP, with every company wanting […]
