Carl Lehmann is a senior research analyst in the 451 Research Applied Infrastructure & DevOps and Cloud Native research channels within S&P Global Market Intelligence. He leads coverage of process automation and integration in hybrid IT and cloud-native architectures, as well as how hybrid IT affects business strategy and operations. His research covers digital automation platforms (including workflow and business process management suites), robotic process automation technology, process discovery and mining technology, and hybrid integration platforms (including integration PaaS and application programming interface management). Previously, Carl was a principal analyst at BPMethods, where he advised clients on business strategy and process management using the practices in his book “Strategy and Business Process Management: Techniques for Improving Execution, Adaptability, and Consistency," published by Taylor and Francis Group. Carl was also a senior VP of strategy and product management for a B2B integration firm (now OpenText) and served 10 years as VP of research for IT advisory firms Gartner and META Group advising Fortune 500 clients. Carl's career began as a project manager for AT&T and a product manager for Digital Equipment Corporation (now Hewlett Packard Enterprise). He is a graduate of Boston University School of Management.
The company's latest platform release simplifies its document extraction AI, improves upon the AI Copilot for Data Fabric and adds an AI Copilot for Process Insights. It also introduces Autoscale, supporting AI-powered process automation and reportedly improving execution performance tenfold.
Enterprises are seeking ways to reap the benefits of generative AI by integrating large language models and their own specific small language models for intelligent automation of their business processes. Fisent provides a platform to link the enterprise application layer with GenAI models.
The company recently made its Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 generally available. This version embodies its strategic vision for a unified approach to enterprise IT automation. We discuss Red Hat's IT automation strategy, the core components of the Ansible Automation Platform and the new capabilities that will enable it.
When it comes to development methodology, architecture, infrastructure or any other element of an IT ecosystem, the choices of IT decision-makers have large and long-lasting consequences for their organizations. Take five minutes to read five Voice of the Customer qualitative interview comments and what they mean.
Rivalry among integration PaaS vendors is intensifying due to the need for enhanced data movement and quality management, as well as the real-time, high-speed exchange required for intelligent decision-making and AI-powered applications. Acquiring Rivery gives Boomi a potential edge in the emerging AI era.
Cloud platform evolution, IT modernization and AI adoption will be overarching market drivers in 2025, fueling other trends in cloud infrastructure and services and cloud-native technologies in the coming year. The cloud sector continues to transform as hyperscalers, managed service providers, global systems integrators, hardware vendors and independent software vendors advance overlapping visions for IT infrastructure and application modernization enabled by automation and powered by the (disruptive) promise of generative AI.
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