Analyst Notes
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…
Hyland acquires Nuxeo – Our Thoughts
For existing customers and community members of Nuxeo, Hylands continued approach to managing the open-source…
File Migration – A Spark Plug for the Cloud
Cloud File Migration vendors are the spark plugs to grow file-based cloud applications, nobody gives…
Box Brings on Cloud FastPath Assets and Team – Our Thoughts
Today Box quietly announced that it had acquired Boston-based, file migration vendor Cloud FastPath (CFP)….
Microsoft Viva EXP Launch – Our Thoughts
This week Microsoft launched Viva, its employee experience platform, building on the foundational work…
Box acquires SignRequest – Our Thoughts
Today Box announced that it had acquired Dutch eSignature firm SignRequest. This deal is of…
SAP Buys Signavio – Our Thoughts
Today SAP announced that it is to acquire process intelligence vendor Signavio for $1.2B. Considering…
Enterprise AI & a New Dotcom?
But, here’s the thing, a couple of years ago, everyone was talking about AI, but…
Is Cognitive Capture the next RPA?
Few saw the potential impact that RPA would have on the market, though many practice…
2021 is Just Around the Corner
2021 is now just around the corner, and Information Management is in for a big…
2021 – The Year of Business Analysis?
But without a sense of reality, the willingness to do some hard work, and a…
Is the combination of Content and Process Intelligence greater than the sum of its parts? ABBYY thinks so…
Software companies, and analysts alike, love to come up with unique product positions, and categories,…
Gimmal acquires yet again….
If we were to believe the industry hype, a firm like Gimmal would not be…
The Danger of Over Simplifying Complex Enterprise Software
Even though analysts need to label and sort enterprise technologies into neat silos, this practice…
The 2020 Deep Analysis Innovation Index………
2020 has been a year of misery, economic crisis, hardship, political upheaval, and of course,…
Enterprise Blockchain Business Value – Vive la Différence!
Blockchain projects are different from typical IT projects in the areas of: business model, external…
Moving Files and Last Friday
well-managed and governed data and content live in well-managed and highly structured environments. Rip them…
Enterprise Blockchain 2021?
This past week Peter Brooks and I finished up some client research on the topic…
AI Behemoth IBM enters the Cognitive Capture Market
This launch represents a pretty significant upgrade to IBM’s capture portfolio, and we expect that…
Designer Jeans and Enterprise Software
At Deep Analysis, we use industry terminology and we are well aware of who competes…
A New Software Market Emerges for a Safe Return to Work and Campus
Fortunately, workforce safety software has emerged to help organize and manage the return-to-work process.
Content Services are taken to 11
Last year we oversaw a TSG* 11 Billon billion benchmarking exercise. This week we talked…
Microsoft SharePoint Syntex – Quick Take
Under the banner of Project Cortex, Microsoft has taken a step back and essentially rethought,…
Hyland acquires Alfresco – A quick take
The price has not been disclosed, but off the record, estimates tell me that TH…
Enterprise Blockchain – its coming, ready, or not.
Although as analysts we try our best to be ‘opinionated’ pragmatists so one thing we…
Hyland Joins the RPA Consolidation Parade with the Another Monday Acquisition
Starting now, Hyland customers and partners can begin integrating Another Monday’s RPA software into Hyland…
The Long Overdue RPA Market Consolidation Takes Off
The RPA/DPA world is now righting itself. There’s a clear trend, as these three important…
EFSS is growing up….
The EFSS market is mature in that a handful of vendors now dominate. Similarly, it…
When AI is not so Intelligent
AI has become such a common term it would be easy to think that the…
Governing Home Working
In this short analyst note we discuss the importance of Information Governance in a world…
And the M&A beat goes on……..
Deep Analysis is not an M&A Brokerage, but we do network widely and actively advise…
Unicorns & Fairy Tales
The Audit firm Deloitte has been fined 15m pounds for its role in Autonomy’s sale…
IBM acquires Brazilian RPA firm WDG ….
Now IBM joins the party, making a modest acquisition of Sao Paolo based WDG Automation.
Enterprise Software: Weathering the Storm
After these past few months, it has become clear that not every enterprise software firm…
The ABC’s of Process and Task Automation
I got an interesting question about RPA this week from our graphical designer. She has…
Enterprise Blockchain progress and challenges
It turns out that building a global blockchain infrastructure, though not cheap or straightforward, is…
Oil & Gas – Information Management Crisis
This year we spent time researching and talking to experts in Asia, Europe, Latin America,…
China’s Blockchain Network should rattle our cages
Oracle, SAP & IBM all have impressive Blockchain credentials; within those organizations, there are people…
RPA’s Limitations Are Everyone’s Limitations
All established organizations must deal with their legacy IT, with decades of hodge-podge implementations, custom…
AI in Digital Process Automation: It’s Complicated
Whenever we discuss trends, the conversations inevitably turn to the future of artificial intelligence and…
