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Era of Reasoning
Enterprise software is becoming a system of reasoning that weighs decisions and acts. Its limit is meaning, and the contest is who owns the reasoning layer.
When the Org Chart Stops Organizing
Every company is two graphs, the org chart and the value chain. As agents absorb routing, the chain becomes the one the company runs on.
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The Return of the Builder
Intent, clarity, and the craft of building software when implementation gets cheap.
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The Self-Driving Enterprise
How AI is reshaping enterprise software, from ambient ERP to autonomous workflows.
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My Life with AI
A personal narrative of building alongside machines, from a TRS-80 to today.
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Random Thoughts from the Trenches
Software craft, leadership, estimation, and whatever else is on my mind.
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How bots at work, no longer sci-fi, will help you do more in the workplace
In the 1980s, the television program Knight Rider gave a glimpse into a world where artificial intelligence could learn, communicate and make independent decisions. The star of the show, a self-aware…
What we know — and need to know — about chatbots
It has been a dream of science fiction authors since the advent of computers: hands-free interfaces that can respond to our every whim — without the need to strike a single key. That future is now…
How Amazon Alexa, Microsoft Cortana, and Apple Siri will help automate business
In the last few years, commercial organizations have relied heavily on immersive technology, effectively transforming operations, and even market competition. The internet makes cross-device…
AI in 2017 – learn to love your digital assistant
We are now in an era where people want to achieve more for less. As technology rapidly transforms our daily lives, we’re seeing demand from users wanting to simplify interaction with their enterprise…
5 ways chatbots will change college
The first week on any college campus is hectic, but what if there was a digital assistant available 24/7 to help new students and their families navigate the college process? With chatbots rapidly…
ERP and the A.I. Factor
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is here. Once a topic of conversation, news, and science fiction, AI has finally entered our technology landscape. We are only beginning to see the impact it will have on…
Four megatrends that will reshape what software can do for us
Four major enterprise management trends are maturing simultaneously, and their imminent fusion has only begun to transform the way we conduct business. They are big data, mobile access, user…
Self-driving enterprise software
By using advanced technologies within pattern recognition, machine learning and computer aided decision support systems, as well as new IoT devices, software can make automated decisions on behalf of…
Patterns
Patterns is not a new buzz or anything, actually patterns, the use hereof and definitions started in 1994 when the book “Design Patterns” was released by the gang of four. Since then there have been…
Does multi-tenancy really matter anymore?
At risk of upsetting cloud purists, my answer is a resounding no. Fifteen years ago, multi-tenancy mattered because infrastructure was expensive. Today, with cheap cloud resources and container orchestration, the economic necessity has gone away.
Thoughts on Rewrites (Estimation)
Estimating rewrites is hard, and frequently developers got a tendency to underestimate such a task – as, in their mind, they know exactly how the system should work, as they already built it once.…
How to Predict next Disruptive Technology
On a very lazy Saturday I was pondering about what eventually could be the next great disruptor within technology, that I could lash onto and be among the first movers. But how would anyone be able to…