Brian Sommer

Scale became a topic du jour at a recent Sage analyst meeting in Atlanta. Scale is an important and multi-faceted topic and it helps understand where a software vendor’s intentions with their products lie. Herewith are some scale highlights from global applications vendor Sage and their implications on Sage Intacct and the Intacct ecosystem.

What could go wrong if a jobseeker uses a less-than-perfect gen AI tool to help them prepare for job interviews? To find out, Brian and Jon trained their own LLM. As you can see from this satirical roundup, the results didn’t go so well.

Last week saw people react to Klarna’s decision to replace SaaS package software with AI-developed apps. Much of the analysis seems right, but Brian Sommer adds an additional perspective we might want to consider.

It's one thing to attend a user conference. It's another to spend 3-hours after the event conversing, in-depth, with a customer who's taking on a major transformation effort that will be anchored with this technology. Here's a view of Oracle's show - and how a global customer will move their firm forward with it.

AI was everywhere (no surprise) but quantity of AI enhancements won out over quality of AI innovations. Bad managers can still escape scrutiny. And, lots of vendors had piles of news to impart. Here are the top observations from the 2024 HR Technology Conference.

AAAAGH!!! If vendors don't like how I made (an honest) mistake in reporting their product's name, can't they at least come up with simpler, straightforward product names? How about some shorter names? Here's how ridiculous this has gotten…

IFS wrapped up its 2024 user conference, Unleashed, last week. AI, especially Industrial AI, was a key discussion item at the event. Here’s my recap and the top stories from it.

Managing projects successfully is more than a technical challenge. It also requires project leaders to be empathetic as well as focused on the tasks, timeline and budget. But the tools to help project leaders and their employers have been deficient and changes to where work happens have further complicated matters. Kantata is now bringing new tools to the fight.

HR strategy is more crucial for people leaders to focus on today than AI strategy, writes expert Brian Sommer.

Like last year’s event, Dayforce’s user conference was full of product news. But, the real headline might have been the progress the company made with its AI initiatives this last year and what’s coming next. There was a lot of focus on productivity gains but a newer set of managerial capabilities is in the offing, too.