S04E08 - Whats happening at OpenText? (and new research)

We Love Ugly Data! The Deep Analysis Podcast

The thirtieth episode of the podcast that you know and love as "We Love Ugly Data!" is out; available in audio form everywhere you get your podcasts from and additionally in video form via YouTube (which we've embedded below). As usual, it’s three topics in (just a touch over) 30 minutes, and the show notes are included just below the embedded video. Alan is on with Matt this month, another batch of Vendor Analysis Reports, the big news coming out of OpenText, and our latest musings on what AI agents mean to the future of operating an organization. In this month’s episode:
Topic 1: Vendor Research Updates
First up this month, Alan and Matt discuss 3 more of the latest Vendor Analysis Reports that were recently published for subscribers. Alan talks about the new report on Hyland (via his featured South Philly grown tomato crop), while Matt talks through the debut reports on LatticeFlow and Fisent.

Topic 2: Changes at OpenText On the 11th of August, OpenText announced some significant changes in its leadership; here Alan and Matt discuss the announcement itself, Alan's initial blog on the subject, and what we think are the likely outcomes for the company and its products. We do get close to saying "only time will tell" (which we've banned previously), but there are also some insights that you might find useful if you want to get deeper into the product. Dan's also added his opinion from an IDP perspective, too.

Topic 3: Pragmatism and Solutionism? For the last topic this month, Alan and Matt discuss a couple of recent blog posts that they've written. Firstly, Matt's written "Agents, Autonomy and Automation", which discusses how maybe autonomy isn't exactly what enterprises need from agents, but instead something that can work, like a typical worker, within traditional boundaries or role and responsibilities. Alan's written one of his own, "The Seductive Danger of Solutionistic Narratives in AI," and the pair discuss how the agent thing is playing out right now in practical terms and where the transformation might be unfolding.
Related Links for Series 4 Episode 8. Here are the latest updated vendor profiles (or VVs as we still call them internally). ...and here's the link to the whole catalog on those profiles (that you have access to read if you're a subscriber). Alan's thoughts just after the OpenText leadership announcement ...and here's Dan IDP specific thoughts on the OpenText situation too. Matt's "Agents, Autonomy and Automation" blog post talks about the division of agents into generalized and focused groups. Alan's blog post "The Seductive Danger of Solutionistic Narratives in AI".

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