Empower business users and IT to dynamically reconfigure and extend their workflows and make them more intelligent through embedded analytics and on-demand digital services (e.g., via app marketplaces).Accommodate existing applications and external data/intelligence sources alike.

This is because what businesses need in this volatile, unpredictable, complex world is something that is less well-defined and “off-the-shelf,” but more flexible and able to meet this complexity with evolving “orchestration” capabilities that: This ‘lingua franca’ of technology evaluation, however, is becoming increasingly insufficient.

The way businesses evaluate and buy software is beginning to evolve, and the vendors positioned to win in this new wave are those that embrace a mantra of customer-centricity, agility and “openness.” They create customer value by building an ecosystem of not just their own proprietary application suites and underlying technology but an integrated ecosystem of other tools.įor decades now, organizations assessing potential technology solutions have restricted themselves to mutually exclusive, collectively exhaustive (MECE) categorizations oriented toward functional heads and process owners - process-centric applications and suites that meet strict criteria for being called “S2P,” “P2P” or “SVM” (or whatever your chosen acronym is).

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