Brian Sommer

Indianapolis

IT market influencer #IndustryAnalyst, #consultant #advisory #IoT #digitaltransformation, #architecture #strategy #thought #leader. #Author #Speaker

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Articles

What did the BOND and Accenture AI reports miss? An enterprise review

3 days ago | diginomica.com | Brian Sommer

Main content We'll send you our top articles (and no marketing spam), no more than once a week. Brian Sommer and Jon Reed of Diginomica recently reviewed two new, big reports on AI. Mary Meeker and her team at BOND produced a 340-slide report that was both massive in size and comprehensiveness. Accenture produced a 67-page report on AI as its 25th annual Tech Trends opus.
Pega has a different vision for agentic AI. Here’s why

2 weeks ago | diginomica.com | Brian Sommer

Main content We'll send you our top articles (and no marketing spam), no more than once a week. Pega, a major player in the process automation space, held its annual confab, PegaWorld, in Las Vegas last week. Like many of their competitors, ERP vendors, process mining vendors, etc., AI was topic #1 at their show. What was different was how Pega has approached AI, especially agentic AI.
Sage - wising up to a big AI update (and more)

3 weeks ago | diginomica.com | Brian Sommer

Main content We'll send you our top articles (and no marketing spam), no more than once a week. Please verify your request. * Sage Group plc conducted an analyst summit in Atlanta recently. This was a prelude to this week's Sage Future user conference. I suspect the Sage executives were using this summit as an opportunity to test drive some of the content and gauge analyst reactions.
Acumatica's latest ownership change - what happens next?

3 weeks ago | diginomica.com | Brian Sommer

Main content We'll send you our top articles (and no marketing spam), no more than once a week. Please verify your request. * ERP vendor Acumatica has been sold to private equity firm Vista Equity Partners. Vista is taking over the prior owner’s position (i.e., EQT Partners). It's the latest iteration of an interesting ownership history in the firm's approximately 17 years of existence.
OneStream Splash - bigger event, more products, more announcements

1 month ago | diginomica.com | Brian Sommer

Main content We'll send you our top articles (and no marketing spam), no more than once a week. Please verify your request. * Enterprise Performance Management) (EPM) vendor OneStream recently held its annual user conference, Splash, in Nashville. About 2600 attendees where present to hear the firm’s new AI and other announcements as well as a number of customer presentations.
Two nights in Singapore - the inside story of 36 hours at HR Tech Asia

1 month ago | diginomica.com | Brian Sommer

Main content We'll send you our top articles (and no marketing spam), no more than once a week. I flew to Singapore a few days ago to give the opening keynote at a major HR show. It was a fast and furious visit that brought a number of HR market observations to light. It was also an opportunity to meet a number of very bright individuals. Here’s the chronology of events and observations:Monday I’ve landed at Changi Airport in Singapore.
From legacy migrations to workflow automation - cloud ERP field lessons from Acumatica customer Spohn Associates

1 month ago | diginomica.com | Jon Reed |Brian Sommer

Main content We'll send you our top articles (and no marketing spam), no more than once a week. One of the best ways to get a handle on a customer is to track their story over time. At Acumatica's 2024 Summit, diginomica's Jon Reed got a firsthand take on Spohn Associates' pursuit of workflow automation, via CFO Sean Barnett.
5 forces radically transforming HR—and why it all comes back to AI

1 month ago | hrexecutive.com | Brian Sommer

HR industry analyst Brian Sommer delivered the opening keynote at HR Tech Asia this week. His talk identified five forces that are radically reshaping HR. These are significant, novel and challenging. And, of course, they will require a lot of work from HR professionals. Here’s a quick look at that talk and the issues Sommer raised in Singapore. HR organizations, like most entities, must be adaptive. Five forces are in play today that will create lots of work, opportunities and challenges for HR.
When non-software firms want to sell software...and find it's really not that simple

2 months ago | diginomica.com | Brian Sommer

Main content We'll send you our top articles (and no marketing spam), no more than once a week. Periodically, a client will approach me with a recent top executive fancy. They think they’ve got a special piece of software and want to monetize it. Sometimes they want to take it to market directly. Other times they want to have some other firm sell & support it. And, sometimes they just want to get an outrageous price for it and sell it outright.
A fresh look at Infor - chewing the facts

2 months ago | diginomica.com | Brian Sommer

Main content We'll send you our top articles (and no marketing spam), no more than once a week. Infor is a long-lived ERP vendor based out of New York City. Infor has expanded significantly through acquisitions, becoming the owner of numerous predecessor ERP solutions, such as Baan, SSA, Lawson, and many others. In recent years, Infor has focused on re-writing and modernizing these solutions for the cloud.