Analyst Notes
Box’ing with Microsoft
In the red corner were those that stated that if you are a well-established customer…
New Report: Work Intelligence
Our new long form (and free) report encompasses Process Mining, Task Mining, RPA, BPM, Workflow…
6 Years of Deep Analysis – Here’s to the future!
It’s also been great to see many startups that we uncovered and gave first visibility…
Records Management & Blockchain
Using Blockchain for Records Management is one of the most straightforward, accessible, and effective use…
Dropbox drops another deal
This past week Dropbox made its second acquisition of 2022 when it bought forms vendor…
Four vendors to watch – Q4 2022
This past week we published four new reports (free to access) illustrating the flood of…
Enterprise Search & KM Market Forecast Released
This week we published our Enterprise Search and KM Market Forecast. It’s a niche market,…
2023 Information & Automation Management Predictions
Predictions are fun to write and must always be taken with a grain of salt;…
Announcing the IDP Market Report 2022-2026
Intelligent document processing (IDP) software is an essential component of digital transformation projects. Our report…
M&A Roundup – November 2022
It’s been a while, but its time for a quick update on what’s been happening…
When uncertainty is a certainty, how do we plan work?
When you consider the certainty of uncertainty – that no matter how diligently you prepare,…
2022 Innovation Index Award Winners
We are genuinely excited to announce the 2022 years Innovation Index Award winners. As in…
6 New Reports – Nov 2022
Today we released yet another batch of research reports, Vendor Vignettes. These short reports are,…
Why we need to automate our automation choices, and why we often don’t.
Those who know me well will know that I’m a massive public transport nerd outside…
Seeing through complexity…..
Whatever technology you use is simply a set of tools, and you can build all…
Microsoft Syntex – How big a deal is this?
Was the recent Syntex announcement at Ignite 2022 the most significant Microsoft news drop since…
Google Cloud Next; from cost management to value creation
Google’s cloud business – encompassing everything from computing power to desktop productivity – has suffered…
OpenText World 2022 Report
The goal is to release updates to Titanium every three months for the next year…
Box Works 2022 Report
Unlike the past two years’ flurry of game-changing product announcements such as Box Sign, Box…
M&A Roundup – Sept 2022
Each month (or so), we look at what has been happening from an investment and…
UIPath (moving) Forward 5 – Our Take
So what to make of UIPath at this point in their early public days? From…
Six New Reports Available
Today we released a new batch of six research reports, Vendor Vignettes. These short reports…
Dreamforce 2022: Salesforce summons Genie to enable its real time, customer data wishes
Genie is the culmination of at least a decade’s worth of incremental progress building on…
Moments of Action; applying AI to the tasks that matter
There is no shortage of opportunities for organizations and suppliers to identify those moments and…
Hyland CommunityLive 2022
Hyland took the plunge this year to return to an in-person (Nashville, TN) customer event….
Standing up isn’t easy: Industry Verticalization of AI
A significant decision along the path from interesting to useful is where AI technology’s application…
AI-Enabled BizApps driving the next wave of adoption
Value that should be front and center, not the underlying technology, however interesting. The successful…
OpenText acquires MicroFocus – Our Analysis
But the underlying fundamentals make sense; furthermore, OpenText has long been a Private Equity firm…
Hooked on Classics
How can a mature, mid-size IDP classic player compete with the shiny new AI-first stories?…
Kofax buys Ephesoft: The Prodigal Son Returns.
With the explosion of new vendors and investment coming into IDP, we think the market…
Information Automation & Management (IAM) Roundup – July/August 2022
It’s worth noting that all this activity is occurring in a harsh economic climate, but…
Managing Fragmented Workforces
Few organizations have addressed the monumental challenge of transforming how to manage teams and individuals…
Laiye acquires Mindsay – And why it matters…..
So, in summary, Laiye is a new and earnest player to contend with. One we…
On-Premises to the Cloud and back again
Interestingly, in many, if not all of our briefings, we ask technology vendors how much…
Legal Tech – 2022 and Beyond
So it is all doom and gloom? No, most certainly not; the shifts in the…
5 New Reports Available
Our website recently published five new vendor-specific reports (Vendor Vignettes in Deep Analysis parlance). And…
UIPath acquires Re:Infer – Our Thoughts
Today, UIPath announced that it is to acquire UK-based Re:Infer, and quite frankly, it’s one…
RPA & Recession
Technology that automates repetitive tasks and cost-cutting go hand in hand, so with a looming…
Info Management & Automation M&A Roundup May-June 2022
It’s been quite a busy month in Information Management & Automation, our home, out there…
The IDP Industry’s First 100% Accuracy Claim: Truth or Hype?
Last week one press release made a claim that almost broke our skeptimeter. The headline…
Sinequa – AI + Deep Learning
If you want evidence of where things are going, French search giant Sinequa this week…
5 Years of Deep Analysis & Market Shifts
It’s hard to believe that I founded Deep Analysis five years ago (almost to the…
Crossing the EX CX Divide
Those who have been around a while in this industry know that sales often grow…
MSP’s for Search, AI & KM
Specialized MSPs may be the answer, and to be clear, some, though not that many,…
KM & EX in 2022
I’m not going to lie; I like it when we get things right at Deep…
Info Mangt & Automation – May 2022 M&A Roundup
At Deep Analysis, we undertake technical and market due diligence for Private Equity, Investment Banks,…
When RPA Met BPM: Post-Acquisition News from Blue Prism
This was a bullish briefing from Blue Prism. SS&C paid $1.65 billion, so we expected…
Kofax Acquired – Again
So to nobody’s surprise, Kofax’s owners, Thoma Bravo, announced that it had sold the company…
Front to Back at Appian World 2022
But beyond the expected announcements, Appian World was an interesting reflection on the pandemic years…
Microsoft Purview – What it means for InfoGov
This week, Microsoft made an interesting announcement – launching Microsoft Purview, bringing ‘almost’ all its…
Microsoft acquires Minit
Microsoft recently acquired the processing mining vendor Minit. We looked closely at Minit a little…
Info Gov in Stormy Waters
IG is not easily defined or categorized; it is more of a concept than practice….
The Demise of the Content Services Magic Quadrant
Gartner has dropped its Magic Quadrant (MQ) for Content Services; it’s a big event in…
Trumping e-Discovery
The Trump Organization has retained HaystackID to use its tools to trawl through its communications…
Info Management M&A Roundup March 2022
Every month or two, we do a quick round-up of the deals in the Information…
An Intelligent Legal Week
egal tech appears to be ‘crossing the chasm’ to use a somewhat tired cliche. All…
Regulations and the catch up game…
The fixed-page concept seems like one that is near eternal, but just as the world…
Has Intelligent Document Processing crossed the chasm?
IDP (AI-powered document capture/OCR) is about to cross the venerable chasm and enter the main…
2022 – A Year of Stasis for ECM & BPM?
Before the pandemic, buyers were assailed by market and sales efforts from RPA and AI…
Google & Document Capture?
We thought it about time that we took a good look at Google Document AI;…
The Real Challenge of Information Management & Automation
Every technology vendor and enterprise that recognizes that humans are the essential ingredient rather than…
M&A Roundup January 2022
OCR and RPA are becoming commodities, but that does not mean the end of capture…
Automation Anywhere acquires FortressIQ
It was a pretty easy prediction to make in our October 2021 report on Process…
M&A Roundup Dec 2021
This will be the last of the year of these notes, but what a year…
2021 Deep Analysis Pick of the Pops
analyst notes we published at Deep Analysis in 2021? There are 89 in total! As…
The grunt work of Digital Transformation just got easier
TWAIN Direct’s ultimate goal is connecting devices directly to the software app, completely removing the…
M&A Roundup – Fall 2021
The most exciting deal of the quarter is not a deal at all yet, more…
Microsoft Ignite: a good old fashioned product conference for the new age
Ignite was a vast digital event befitting of the newly-crowned world’s most valuable public company,…
Hoisted on its own (AI) petard – Zillow’s bad week
Does the Zillow algorithm fail have larger meaning for AI? Some tech pundits have used…
Dropbox Acquires a Search Vendor
Last week Dropbox to little fanfare announced that they had acquired San Francisco-based desktop search…
Largest single investment ever for a cognitive capture startup?
Rossum, a cognitive capture software startup out of the Czech Republic, just closed a remarkable…
Why the sudden interest in Process & Task Mining?
Driven largely by the rise in popularity and similarly huge valuations of RPA (Robotic Process…
Hyland and the heavyweight fight ahead
There is a boxing match this week between Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder. But there…
Unpacking – BoxWorks 21
That is a tough pill to swallow for many enterprise software companies, but Box appears…
Salesforce and the Revolution….
Salesforce has a vision; much of its work is customer-driven and reflects their needs, rather…
Where is OpenText?
It is worth noting, that what OpenText is doing is in stark contrast to its…
Information Management & Automation – A Summer of M&A
Considering the sheer volume of startups and smaller legacy firms, there is no shortage to…
SharePoint Plus Blockchain
A cheap and straightforward to install and use blockchain add-on/plugin to systems like SharePoint and…
Is Blockchain GDPR Compliant?
etc.) compliant. Except this is not true. What has usually happened is that somebody within…
Sign here please! The revival of eSignatures
One of the reasons eSignatures are not as widely used as they could be is…
July M&A Update – Our Thoughts
It’s one thing to provide corporate access to video conferencing and messaging systems; it’s another…
June Deals and Box – Our Thoughts
July has now kicked off with a bang or punches, depending on your viewpoint. Box…
WFH – KM & Tulsa OK
But one area that seems to have garnered little attention is the gritty reality of…
Did OCR Discover the Fountain of Youth?
In perhaps the ultimate cool endorsement, last week at WWDC Apple announced optical character recognition…
Box Shuttle Take Off
You can read more about the arcane world of file migration in our recent report,…
Reframing Deep Learning
Move over, machine learning, here come the deep learning algorithms. We predict that deep learning…
Warburg Pincus Invests in NetDocuments – Our Thoughts
This past week, Utah-based NetDocuments ownership switched from Clearlake Capital Group to private equity firm…
AnyClip raises $47M for video intelligence – Our Thoughts
We’ve been talking about multimedia data capture in ECM and BPM for at least 20…
Marlin Equity Partners & Abbyy – Our Thoughts
Today there was important news in the Cognitive Capture market. ABBYY, a privately-held company, announced…
SeeUnity Acquired – Our Thoughts
But, this past week, fellow cloud file migration vendor, SeeUnity (based in Colorado), was acquired…
Gimmal, Automation Anywhere & Darktrace – Our Thoughts
This week two events caught our attention in the industry a board shuffle at RPA…
Mobius & UIPath take off – Our Thoughts
All in all quite month of activity, but all of course, overshadowed by the UIPath…
How to Turn an Aircraft Carrier: A Review of OpenText World 2021
We attended OpenText World Europe this April to learn where the ship is headed. OpenText…
IBM acquires MyInvenio – Our Thoughts
The MyInvenio deal follows closely on the heels of IBM’s acquisition of Brazilian RPA vendor…
Financial vs Industry Analysts and Box
My take was that this investment was a good move for Box. It provides longer-term…
MFiles Acquire Hubshare – Our Thoughts
Today MFiles, the USA/Finnish ECM company, announced that it had acquired London-based collaboration/filesharing firm Hubshare….
Scotland – Taking responsibility for AI
However, in practice, following and indeed enforcing these principles is going to be a major…
ABBYY Vantage 2.0 and Marketplace – Our Thoughts
Under the hood, Vantage utilizes Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) that are pre-trained on hundreds of…
Mature Markets Create Innovation Tipping Point’s
A common perception in the industry is that technology markets are linear. That markets follow…
Dropbox acquires DocSend – Our Thoughts
Today Dropbox announced that it is to acquire San Francisco-based DocSend, a VC-backed startup that…
