Carl Lehmann is a senior research analyst in the Applied Infrastructure & DevOps and Cloud Native research channels at 451 Research from S&P Global Energy Horizons. He leads coverage of process automation and integration in hybrid IT and cloud-native architectures, as well as how hybrid IT and emerging agentic AI affects business strategy and operations. His research focuses on agentic process automation platforms, along with ongoing coverage of digital automation suites, robotic process automation, process discovery and mining technologies, and hybrid integration platforms (including integration PaaS and API management). Previously, Carl served as senior vice president of strategy and product management at a B2B integration firm (now part of OpenText) and spent a decade as a vice president of research at Gartner and META Group, advising Fortune 500 organizations. He is the author of Strategy and Business Process Management: Techniques for Improving Execution, Adaptability, and Consistency, published by Taylor & Francis. Carl began his career as a project manager at AT&T and a product manager at Digital Equipment Corporation (now Hewlett Packard Enterprise). He is a graduate of Boston University’s School of Management.
The company offers an enterprise agentic AI operating system built on six pillars to move organizations from agent pilots to production at scale. SimplAI targets a crowded but fast-growing market where enterprises need more than individual tools or frameworks.
The newly augmented Digital Process Automation Suite should help process designers build and deploy workflows using natural language and spoken commands. The vendor has also introduced agent governance controls — including cost tracking and governance compliance parameters — that treat AI agents as manageable workforce resources alongside humans.
Modern software relies on public open-source infrastructure delivering billions of downloads each month, demanding substantial funding, security and compliance oversight. The Eclipse Foundation proposes a new managed service model for commercial users of Open VSX.
Autonomous Workforce introduces AI specialists that execute entire enterprise jobs rather than merely assist with tasks. ServiceNow also unveiled EmployeeWorks, integrating its prior Moveworks acquisition to provide a unified conversational interface that turns employee intent into automated action.
The vendor has shifted mainframe AI from decision support to autonomous execution via agentic architecture, with governance and observability built into the foundation. The new tools position AI agents to coordinate and execute actions across workflows — marking a fundamental evolution in how enterprises can deploy AI on mission-critical systems.
The company pivoted approximately 15 months ago after customers highlighted reliability challenges with emerging AI frameworks and requested Akka's resilience capabilities for agentic systems. Akka now provides resilience guarantees and compliance enforcement for the EU AI Act and ISO 42001 through a managed service model.
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