Analyst Notes
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…