File Migration – A Spark Plug for the Cloud
Cloud File Migration vendors are the spark plugs to grow file-based cloud applications, nobody gives them much attention, but without them, nothing happens.
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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). It’s a firm that Box has been working closely with for a long while, and CFP technology is at the heart Box Shuttle, its migration service. As CFP has been the technology under the covers of Box Shuttle for some …
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Microsoft Viva EXP Launch – Our Thoughts
This week Microsoft launched Viva, its employee experience platform, building on the foundational work of Project Cortex. Microsoft describes Viva as an organizing layer across 365 leveraging teams. Nothing too surprising there, but where it does get interesting is its ability to co-ordinate insights, alerts, and information across the enterprise.
Box acquires SignRequest – Our Thoughts
Today Box announced that it had acquired Dutch eSignature firm SignRequest. This deal is of significant market interest for two reasons.
SAP Buys Signavio – Our Thoughts
Today SAP announced that it is to acquire process intelligence vendor Signavio for $1.2B. Considering Signavio’s revenues were around $100m, and it had raised almost $230m in funding, that’s a high price to pay. But is such a high price justified, and why would SAP contemplate paying so much in the first place?
Enterprise AI & a New Dotcom?
But, here’s the thing, a couple of years ago, everyone was talking about AI, but few were doing it. This past year things changed fast; now, there is a mad rush to embrace AI or get left behind. But its easier said than done, AI tools, models, and libraries are readily available, but skills, knowledge of specific user needs, and good data are not.
Is Cognitive Capture the next RPA?
Few saw the potential impact that RPA would have on the market, though many practice a form of revisionism to claim that they did. The fact is that most ‘experts’ saw RPA as a flash in the pan that would have little impact on a mature, stable, and lucrative BPM market. The experts were wrong; …
2021 is Just Around the Corner
2021 is now just around the corner, and Information Management is in for a big year of change, disruption, progress, and innovation; that’s not a prediction, it’s a promise.
2021 – The Year of Business Analysis?
But without a sense of reality, the willingness to do some hard work, and a recognition of the need for human expertise to understand what’s going on and what you need, then they will not work. 2021 should be the business analyst’s year, the process analyst year.
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, that enable them to stand out from their competition. Put a bunch of related capabilities together in a box and give it a catchy name. Hey, presto! Congratulations, you just invented a new market and, guess what, you’re the King.