Choosing an ERP for Manufacturing: How AI Is Reshaping the Vendor Landscape

4 days ago
Kai Waehner

ERP vendor selection for manufacturing is not a product decision. It is a strategic bet on fit, total cost, and…

Process Intelligence Explained: Mining, Orchestration, and the Decision Gate

1 week ago

Process intelligence is not a single tool. It combines process mining, process orchestration, and a decision gate into one architecture…

ERP Migration to SAP S/4HANA and Beyond: Lessons Learned from German Manufacturing

3 weeks ago

ERP modernization fails when the technology leads and the process work follows. Three German manufacturers ran their migrations differently, on…

Beyond Enterprise Data Lineage: The Case for a Platform-Independent Data Catalog

1 month ago

Most organizations start their data governance journey by asking how to track where data comes from and where it goes.…

Data Ownership in the Age of Agentic AI: Why SAP’s API Policy Forces a Data Integration Reckoning for Every Enterprise

2 months ago

Every enterprise is being told to go agentic. Meanwhile, the platforms holding your most critical business data are tightening control…

Flink CEP and Agentic AI: Real-Time Pattern Detection as the Foundation for Autonomous Decisions

2 months ago

AI agents fail in production when they are connected directly to raw event streams. Flink CEP is the missing layer…

Complex Event Processing (CEP) with Apache Flink: What It Is and When (Not) to Use It

2 months ago

Complex Event Processing is the most underused capability in Apache Flink. It detects meaningful event sequences in real time, fires…

MCP vs. REST/HTTP API vs. Kafka: The Architect’s Guide to Agentic AI Integration

2 months ago

MCP, REST/HTTP APIs, and Apache Kafka are not alternatives. They solve different problems at different layers of the architecture. This…

Enterprise Agentic AI Landscape 2026: Trust, Flexibility, and Vendor Lock-in

2 months ago

The Enterprise Agentic AI Landscape 2026 maps every major AI vendor across two dimensions that matter most: how much you…

The Trinity of Modern Data Architecture: Process Intelligence, Event-Driven Integration, and Trusted Agentic AI

3 months ago

Agentic AI without governed processes is fast but ungoverned. Event-driven integration without process intelligence moves data but not decisions. Process…