7 Vendors to Watch in 2023 – New Research
This week published a new bumper crop of Vendor Reports; they are all free to access (though we ask for your name and email at login).
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Six Vendors to Watch in Q1 2023 – new research
Settle down, grab a cup of tea, put your feet up, and have a good long read of what we believe to be excellent and timely industry research.
New Report: Work Intelligence
Our new long form (and free) report encompasses Process Mining, Task Mining, RPA, BPM, Workflow Automation, Decision Intelligence, Process Orchestration, Low Code and No Code platforms. As from a buyers, and users perspective, these technologies are all used to automate and monitor business process activities
Four vendors to watch – Q4 2022
This past week we published four new reports (free to access) illustrating the flood of innovation hitting our industry.
Google Cloud Next; from cost management to value creation
Google’s cloud business – encompassing everything from computing power to desktop productivity – has suffered an identity crisis throughout its life. For a company that generates an overwhelming amount of its revenue through services outside the cloud business (92% as of Q4 2021), the cloud side of its business seemed to have little direction other than the promise of cost reduction to prospective customers. With this week’s global “Cloud Next” conferences, Google is signaling that it now sees the creation of value as the way to power its next growth phase.
UIPath (moving) Forward 5 – Our Take
So what to make of UIPath at this point in their early public days? From an industry analyst’s perspective, they have come a long way in a short time.
Six New Reports Available
Today we released a new batch of six research reports, Vendor Vignettes. These short reports are in essence, a product or service review of particular vendors offering.
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 top of the core CRM product through both organic development and a significant volume of acquisitions (of relevance here includes ExactTarget, Krux, Mulesoft as the most significant, at the head of a much longer list).
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 create potentially significant value for each. Managing the data-heavy requirements of the AI to enable them, along with governance structures to ensure their efficacy in operation – not forgetting their accuracy in the outcome – remains a challenge.
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 …
AI-Enabled BizApps driving the next wave of adoption
Value that should be front and center, not the underlying technology, however interesting. The successful business application of AI is ultimately just as revolutionary, if not more so, than the code, algorithms, models, and processors used.
Information Automation & Management (IAM) Roundup – July/August 2022
It’s worth noting that all this activity is occurring in a harsh economic climate, but not so tough for some as Google, Microsoft, Oracle, and Amazon have seen their cloud revenues soar recently. The broader economy may have issues, but software and services to automate and bring order to business chaos are still thriving.
Managing Fragmented Workforces
Few organizations have addressed the monumental challenge of transforming how to manage teams and individuals remotely or, for that matter, how those remote workers access critical information in a fragmented organizational structure.
Info Management & Automation M&A Roundup May-June 2022
It’s been quite a busy month in Information Management & Automation, our home, out there on the edge of the technology sector. Despite doom and gloom in the economy and geopolitical unrest, a sharp decline in IPO’s plenty of deals big and small are still active in our corner of the world. Below is a …
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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.
Has Intelligent Document Processing crossed the chasm?
IDP (AI-powered document capture/OCR) is about to cross the venerable chasm and enter the main street of B2B purchasing. And the charge is being led not by the legacy IDP vendors, but by the upstarts.
2022 – A Year of Stasis for ECM & BPM?
Before the pandemic, buyers were assailed by market and sales efforts from RPA and AI document automation vendors alike, which naturally spiked some interest. But the pandemic has driven a more rational reason growth of interest.
Why the sudden interest in Process & Task Mining?
Driven largely by the rise in popularity and similarly huge valuations of RPA (Robotic Process Automation), there is the impression that PTM and RPA technologies are tied at the hip. Indeed, RPA projects are likely to be far more successful if the business analysts involved in those projects make use of PTM tools. But that is only part of a much more complex story.
Mature Markets Create Innovation Tipping Point’s
A common perception in the industry is that technology markets are linear. That markets follow the ‘Crossing the Chasm’ route, which takes them from innovators and early adopters to laggards.
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.