Legal Week 2023 – Review
Add to this the fact that Cloud is now the preferred option; the legal tech world has transformed itself over just a few pandemic years and looks set for more significant technology adoption in the coming years.
A New Look UiPath
Today UiPath announced a comprehensive rebrand and shifted its strategy away from its traditional focus on RPA and into the broader enterprise automation space—few firms of this size ($1B+) attempt such a feat. But we say hats off to them, as not only is the shift in focus a sensible one for UiPath itself, it …
Mono-Cultural AI
It’s great to see firms like Botminds recognizing and supporting an ever wider number of human languages. We hope to see more and more follow suit over time but let’s not fool ourselves that this is a soon-to-be-solved problem. It has many layers, and our industry doesn’t seem to be in a rush to address them.
M&A Roundup Jan & Feb 2023
Every month or so, we do a quick wrap-up of the M&A and investment activity that has been occurring in our industry.
Box’ing with Microsoft
In the red corner were those that stated that if you are a well-established customer of Box, there was no logic in migrating to Microsoft. In the blue corner were those who boldly said there was no logic for anyone staying on Box.
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 to grow rapidly and/or be acquired. Our open-door policy, making it easy for any enterprise or vendor to speak with us, has also proven to be a gift, meeting and hopefully helping countless new people in this ever-evolving market.
Records Management & Blockchain
Using Blockchain for Records Management is one of the most straightforward, accessible, and effective use cases.
Dropbox drops another deal
This past week Dropbox made its second acquisition of 2022 when it bought forms vendor FormSwift. A few weeks earlier, it bought Boxcryptor, as its name suggests, a security/encryption vendor.
Enterprise Search & KM Market Forecast Released
This week we published our Enterprise Search and KM Market Forecast. It’s a niche market, though at $2.6B, not insignificant, and there has been little analyst coverage over recent years.
Seeing through complexity…..
Whatever technology you use is simply a set of tools, and you can build all sorts of solutions to problems with the right hands. Our industry tends to lack imagination, and too few renaissance people to see the wood from the trees.
Microsoft Syntex – How big a deal is this?
Was the recent Syntex announcement at Ignite 2022 the most significant Microsoft news drop since the launch of SharePoint in 2001?
Hyland CommunityLive 2022
Hyland took the plunge this year to return to an in-person (Nashville, TN) customer event. That decision was not an easy one to make. Many other tech firms have been struggling with the same decision-making process in the wake of the pandemic. But thankfully, it worked out well, and Community Live was well attended. So …
5 Years of Deep Analysis & Market Shifts
It’s hard to believe that I founded Deep Analysis five years ago (almost to the day). It’s hard to believe we made it this far and that we are looking forward to the next five. But maybe what is hardest to grasp is just how much our industry has changed over these past few years. …
Crossing the EX CX Divide
Those who have been around a while in this industry know that sales often grow fastest in the toughest of times, as efficiencies need to be made and costs saved. Even so, there is always an on-ramp and readjustment to remind and educate buyers and investors alike that to save money, you need to invest in the right places to make the necessary changes.
MSP’s for Search, AI & KM
Specialized MSPs may be the answer, and to be clear, some, though not that many, already exist (particularly for Elasticsearch), but not many. And as advanced AI (think neural networks and Deep Learning) start to play a more significant role in these applications, one would hope more will become available.
KM & EX in 2022
I’m not going to lie; I like it when we get things right at Deep Analysis 🙂 Back in 2019, we published a note on what seemed to be a re-emergence of KM (Knowledge Management), and over these past few years, it has come back with a vengeance.
Info Gov in Stormy Waters
IG is not easily defined or categorized; it is more of a concept than practice. Even so, it’s a critical concept, particularly in a world of information overload, rising IT costs, economic uncertainty, and upheaval. Bringing some order to chaos should be an appealing concept, and if properly guided, a practice that should receive a more welcome embrace than it does today.
The Demise of the Content Services Magic Quadrant
Gartner has dropped its Magic Quadrant (MQ) for Content Services; it’s a big event in a relatively small world.
Trumping e-Discovery
The Trump Organization has retained HaystackID to use its tools to trawl through its communications and files to meet the requirements of legal disputes running in New York. This week, Judge Arthur Engoren demanded more transparency and urgency from HaystackID.
Info Management M&A Roundup March 2022
Every month or two, we do a quick round-up of the deals in the Information Management and Automation sector that caught our eyes. So much activity is a sign of health and strength in the industry.