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19 - 21 May 2026 · Madrid

SAP migration taking years?

With AI. Done in weeks.

We can compress your technical migration by as much as 70%.

Find out how

19 - 21 May · Madrid

SAP migration taking years?

With AI.
Done in weeks.

We can compress your technical migration by as much as 70%.

Find out how

19 - 21 May 2026 · Madrid

SAP migration taking years?

With AI. Done in weeks.

We can compress your technical migration by as much as 70%.

Find out how

The view from SAP Sapphire Madrid. Software is converging, and ontology is the engine.

Danny Tigue

May 27, 2026

5 Mins

Everyone at Sapphire was talking about context. Almost no one named the thing that actually provides it. That gap is where the real competitive advantage sits.

Read the full story

The view from SAP Sapphire Madrid. Software is converging, and ontology is the engine.

Danny Tigue

May 27, 2026

5 Mins

May 27, 2026

5 Mins

Everyone at Sapphire was talking about context. Almost no one named the thing that actually provides it. That gap is where the real competitive advantage sits.

Read the full story

The view from SAP Sapphire Madrid. Software is converging, and ontology is the engine.

Danny Tigue

May 27, 2026

5 Mins

May 27, 2026

5 Mins

Everyone at Sapphire was talking about context. Almost no one named the thing that actually provides it. That gap is where the real competitive advantage sits.

The view from SAP Sapphire Madrid. Software is converging, and ontology is the engine.

Danny Tigue

May 27, 2026

5 Mins

May 27, 2026

5 Mins

Everyone at Sapphire was talking about context. Almost no one named the thing that actually provides it. That gap is where the real competitive advantage sits.

Read the full story

Ontologies

Future Enterprise

Image description - Accelerating SAP Migrations with Foundry and AIP

Accelerating SAP Migrations with Foundry and AIP

May 14, 2026

10 Mins

Image description - An AI generated image depicting the migration of data as a swarm of data pixel particles

What successful migrations have in common

Chris Lormor

May 11, 2026

5 Mins

Ontologies

Future Enterprise

Image description - An AI generated image of a conceptual view of a footballing analogy of pre-season planning in relation to ERP migration

Pre-season thinking for ERP migrations

Danny Tigue

May 11, 2026

5 Mins

Ontologies

Future Enterprise

Image description - Accelerating SAP Migrations with Foundry and AIP

Accelerating SAP Migrations with Foundry and AIP

May 14, 2026

10 Mins

Image description - An AI generated image depicting the migration of data as a swarm of data pixel particles

What successful migrations have in common

Chris Lormor

May 11, 2026

5 Mins

Ontologies

Future Enterprise

Image description - An AI generated image of a conceptual view of a footballing analogy of pre-season planning in relation to ERP migration

Pre-season thinking for ERP migrations

Danny Tigue

May 11, 2026

5 Mins

Ontologies

Future Enterprise

Image description - Accelerating SAP Migrations with Foundry and AIP

Accelerating SAP Migrations with Foundry and AIP

May 14, 2026

10 Mins

Pinned

Image description - An AI generated image depicting the migration of data as a swarm of data pixel particles

What successful migrations have in common

Chris Lormor

May 11, 2026

5 Mins

Pinned

Ontologies

Future Enterprise

Image description - An AI generated image of a conceptual view of a footballing analogy of pre-season planning in relation to ERP migration

Pre-season thinking for ERP migrations

Danny Tigue

May 11, 2026

5 Mins

Pinned

Ontologies

Future Enterprise

Image description - Accelerating SAP Migrations with Foundry and AIP

Accelerating SAP Migrations with Foundry and AIP

May 14, 2026

10 Mins

Pinned

Image description - An AI generated image depicting the migration of data as a swarm of data pixel particles

What successful migrations have in common

Chris Lormor

May 11, 2026

5 Mins

Pinned

Ontologies

Future Enterprise

Image description - An AI generated image of a conceptual view of a footballing analogy of pre-season planning in relation to ERP migration

Pre-season thinking for ERP migrations

Danny Tigue

May 11, 2026

5 Mins

Ontologies

Future Enterprise

Image description - Accelerating SAP Migrations with Foundry and AIP

Accelerating SAP Migrations with Foundry and AIP

May 14, 2026

10 Mins

Pinned

Image description - An AI generated image depicting the migration of data as a swarm of data pixel particles

What successful migrations have in common

Chris Lormor

May 11, 2026

5 Mins

Pinned

Ontologies

Future Enterprise

Image description - An AI generated image of a conceptual view of a footballing analogy of pre-season planning in relation to ERP migration

Pre-season thinking for ERP migrations

Danny Tigue

May 11, 2026

5 Mins

Building a new enterprise AI services company with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs ...

Future Enterprise

Ronan Forker

May 6, 2026

"Why have Anthropic and OpenAI raised billions to launch AI consulting and services arms for agentic solutions? Because that’s where real customer value is and they need skin in the game."

Trust

People First

Image description - An AI generated image showing a human figure on a long journey of discovery

AI: Our Modern Prometheus

James Braund

Apr 29, 2026

10 Mins

Agentic Systems

Image description - MCP vs CLI conceptually represented as an intertwined amorphous shell like 3d shape of multiple layers of complexity.

MCP vs CLI is the wrong question

Dom Selvon

Apr 27, 2026

5 Mins

AI’s Trillion-Dollar Opportunity: Context Graphs...

Dom Selvon

Apr 23, 2026

"The system of records are too static. Understanding the reasons that decisions are made will allow for tacit knowledge to be stored and acted upon."

Image description - Claude Design - Valliance collaborative test drive

Claude Design just dropped. Here’s our take as we took it for a collaborative test drive.

Apr 21, 2026

2 Mins

The AI layoff trap ...

People First

James Braund

Apr 15, 2026

"AI layoffs don't just cut costs: they cut workers' spending power, shrinking the market for everyone. We've got a responsibility to use AI to augment workers, not replace them."

Future Enterprise

Image description - An AI generated image depicting a control tower and an observer looking out over their enterprise OS

Control towers are going to show you how your business really works

Tom Moran

Apr 15, 2026

10 Mins

Ontologies

Future Enterprise

Agentic Systems

Image description - An AI generated image of two models of data combining representing complexity within AI vocabulary

OpenAI validated Palantir's model, but also introduced a vocabulary problem

Dom Selvon

Apr 8, 2026

5 Mins

People First

An AI generated image of two roles slowly merging and overlapping represented by two people standing back to back, but with still a clear delineation between them

Image description - An AI generated image of two roles slowly merging and overlapping represented by two people standing back to back, but with still a clear delineation between them

Designers and developers have been converging for years. AI just finished the job.

Tom Moran

Apr 1, 2026

5 Mins

People First

Agentic Systems

Image description - An AI generated image of a human figure in motion moving up through the levels of progress

AI Made You Faster. It Didn't Make You Better.

Ronan Forker

Mar 18, 2026

5 Mins

Ontologies

Future Enterprise

An AI generated image of Five layers of enterprise intelligence represented by isometric view of five layers of glass, with gradient colors on the edges and a person standing in front of them.

Image description - An AI generated image of Five layers of enterprise intelligence represented by isometric view of five layers of glass, with gradient colors on the edges and a person standing in front of them.

Five layers of enterprise intelligence (And why the order matters)

Dom Selvon

Mar 13, 2026

10 Mins

The Death of Software 2.0 (A Better Analogy!) ...

Agentic Systems

Future Enterprise

Ontologies

Dom Selvon

Mar 4, 2026

"Coupled with my article on the Death of SaaS, this is useful data for CIOs. We ask what is commodity above SAP? We move from workflow to goal-seeking systems that orchestrate across sources of truth. "

Building a new enterprise AI services company with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs ...

Future Enterprise

Ronan Forker

May 6, 2026

"Why have Anthropic and OpenAI raised billions to launch AI consulting and services arms for agentic solutions? Because that’s where real customer value is and they need skin in the game."

Trust

People First

Image description - An AI generated image showing a human figure on a long journey of discovery

AI: Our Modern Prometheus

James Braund

Apr 29, 2026

10 Mins

Agentic Systems

Image description - MCP vs CLI conceptually represented as an intertwined amorphous shell like 3d shape of multiple layers of complexity.

MCP vs CLI is the wrong question

Dom Selvon

Apr 27, 2026

5 Mins

AI’s Trillion-Dollar Opportunity: Context Graphs...

Dom Selvon

Apr 23, 2026

"The system of records are too static. Understanding the reasons that decisions are made will allow for tacit knowledge to be stored and acted upon."

Image description - Claude Design - Valliance collaborative test drive

Claude Design just dropped. Here’s our take as we took it for a collaborative test drive.

Apr 21, 2026

2 Mins

The AI layoff trap ...

People First

James Braund

Apr 15, 2026

"AI layoffs don't just cut costs: they cut workers' spending power, shrinking the market for everyone. We've got a responsibility to use AI to augment workers, not replace them."

Future Enterprise

Image description - An AI generated image depicting a control tower and an observer looking out over their enterprise OS

Control towers are going to show you how your business really works

Tom Moran

Apr 15, 2026

10 Mins

Ontologies

Future Enterprise

Agentic Systems

Image description - An AI generated image of two models of data combining representing complexity within AI vocabulary

OpenAI validated Palantir's model, but also introduced a vocabulary problem

Dom Selvon

Apr 8, 2026

5 Mins

People First

Image description - An AI generated image of two roles slowly merging and overlapping represented by two people standing back to back, but with still a clear delineation between them

Designers and developers have been converging for years. AI just finished the job.

Tom Moran

Apr 1, 2026

5 Mins

People First

Agentic Systems

Image description - An AI generated image of a human figure in motion moving up through the levels of progress

AI Made You Faster. It Didn't Make You Better.

Ronan Forker

Mar 18, 2026

5 Mins

Ontologies

Future Enterprise

Five layers of enterprise intelligence (And why the order matters)

Dom Selvon

Mar 13, 2026

10 Mins

The Death of Software 2.0 (A Better Analogy!) ...

Agentic Systems

Future Enterprise

Ontologies

Dom Selvon

Mar 4, 2026

Building a new enterprise AI services company with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs ...

Future Enterprise

Ronan Forker

May 6, 2026

"Why have Anthropic and OpenAI raised billions to launch AI consulting and services arms for agentic solutions? Because that’s where real customer value is and they need skin in the game."

Trust

People First

Image description - An AI generated image showing a human figure on a long journey of discovery

AI: Our Modern Prometheus

James Braund

Apr 29, 2026

10 Mins

Agentic Systems

Image description - MCP vs CLI conceptually represented as an intertwined amorphous shell like 3d shape of multiple layers of complexity.

MCP vs CLI is the wrong question

Dom Selvon

Apr 27, 2026

5 Mins

AI’s Trillion-Dollar Opportunity: Context Graphs...

Dom Selvon

Apr 23, 2026

"The system of records are too static. Understanding the reasons that decisions are made will allow for tacit knowledge to be stored and acted upon."

Image description - Claude Design - Valliance collaborative test drive

Claude Design just dropped. Here’s our take as we took it for a collaborative test drive.

Apr 21, 2026

2 Mins

The AI layoff trap ...

People First

James Braund

Apr 15, 2026

"AI layoffs don't just cut costs: they cut workers' spending power, shrinking the market for everyone. We've got a responsibility to use AI to augment workers, not replace them."

Future Enterprise

Image description - An AI generated image depicting a control tower and an observer looking out over their enterprise OS

Control towers are going to show you how your business really works

Tom Moran

Apr 15, 2026

10 Mins

Ontologies

Future Enterprise

Agentic Systems

Image description - An AI generated image of two models of data combining representing complexity within AI vocabulary

OpenAI validated Palantir's model, but also introduced a vocabulary problem

Dom Selvon

Apr 8, 2026

5 Mins

People First

Image description - An AI generated image of two roles slowly merging and overlapping represented by two people standing back to back, but with still a clear delineation between them

Designers and developers have been converging for years. AI just finished the job.

Tom Moran

Apr 1, 2026

5 Mins

People First

Agentic Systems

Image description - An AI generated image of a human figure in motion moving up through the levels of progress

AI Made You Faster. It Didn't Make You Better.

Ronan Forker

Mar 18, 2026

5 Mins

Ontologies

Future Enterprise

Five layers of enterprise intelligence (And why the order matters)

Dom Selvon

Mar 13, 2026

10 Mins

The Death of Software 2.0 (A Better Analogy!) ...

Agentic Systems

Future Enterprise

Ontologies

Dom Selvon

Mar 4, 2026

Building a new enterprise AI services company with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs ...

Future Enterprise

Ronan Forker

May 6, 2026

"Why have Anthropic and OpenAI raised billions to launch AI consulting and services arms for agentic solutions? Because that’s where real customer value is and they need skin in the game."

Trust

People First

Image description - An AI generated image showing a human figure on a long journey of discovery

AI: Our Modern Prometheus

James Braund

Apr 29, 2026

10 Mins

Agentic Systems

Image description - MCP vs CLI conceptually represented as an intertwined amorphous shell like 3d shape of multiple layers of complexity.

MCP vs CLI is the wrong question

Dom Selvon

Apr 27, 2026

5 Mins

AI’s Trillion-Dollar Opportunity: Context Graphs...

Dom Selvon

Apr 23, 2026

"The system of records are too static. Understanding the reasons that decisions are made will allow for tacit knowledge to be stored and acted upon."

Image description - Claude Design - Valliance collaborative test drive

Claude Design just dropped. Here’s our take as we took it for a collaborative test drive.

Apr 21, 2026

2 Mins

The AI layoff trap ...

People First

James Braund

Apr 15, 2026

"AI layoffs don't just cut costs: they cut workers' spending power, shrinking the market for everyone. We've got a responsibility to use AI to augment workers, not replace them."

Future Enterprise

Image description - An AI generated image depicting a control tower and an observer looking out over their enterprise OS

Control towers are going to show you how your business really works

Tom Moran

Apr 15, 2026

10 Mins

Ontologies

Future Enterprise

Agentic Systems

Image description - An AI generated image of two models of data combining representing complexity within AI vocabulary

OpenAI validated Palantir's model, but also introduced a vocabulary problem

Dom Selvon

Apr 8, 2026

5 Mins

People First

Image description - An AI generated image of two roles slowly merging and overlapping represented by two people standing back to back, but with still a clear delineation between them

Designers and developers have been converging for years. AI just finished the job.

Tom Moran

Apr 1, 2026

5 Mins

People First

Agentic Systems

Image description - An AI generated image of a human figure in motion moving up through the levels of progress

AI Made You Faster. It Didn't Make You Better.

Ronan Forker

Mar 18, 2026

5 Mins

Ontologies

Future Enterprise

Five layers of enterprise intelligence (And why the order matters)

Dom Selvon

Mar 13, 2026

10 Mins

The Death of Software 2.0 (A Better Analogy!) ...

Agentic Systems

Future Enterprise

Ontologies

Dom Selvon

Mar 4, 2026

Building a new enterprise AI services company with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs ...

Future Enterprise

Ronan Forker

May 6, 2026

"Why have Anthropic and OpenAI raised billions to launch AI consulting and services arms for agentic solutions? Because that’s where real customer value is and they need skin in the game."

Trust

People First

Image description - An AI generated image showing a human figure on a long journey of discovery

AI: Our Modern Prometheus

James Braund

Apr 29, 2026

10 Mins

Agentic Systems

Image description - MCP vs CLI conceptually represented as an intertwined amorphous shell like 3d shape of multiple layers of complexity.

MCP vs CLI is the wrong question

Dom Selvon

Apr 27, 2026

5 Mins

AI’s Trillion-Dollar Opportunity: Context Graphs...

Dom Selvon

Apr 23, 2026

"The system of records are too static. Understanding the reasons that decisions are made will allow for tacit knowledge to be stored and acted upon."

Image description - Claude Design - Valliance collaborative test drive

Claude Design just dropped. Here’s our take as we took it for a collaborative test drive.

Apr 21, 2026

2 Mins

The AI layoff trap ...

People First

James Braund

Apr 15, 2026

"AI layoffs don't just cut costs: they cut workers' spending power, shrinking the market for everyone. We've got a responsibility to use AI to augment workers, not replace them."

Future Enterprise

Image description - An AI generated image depicting a control tower and an observer looking out over their enterprise OS

Control towers are going to show you how your business really works

Tom Moran

Apr 15, 2026

10 Mins

Ontologies

Future Enterprise

Agentic Systems

Image description - An AI generated image of two models of data combining representing complexity within AI vocabulary

OpenAI validated Palantir's model, but also introduced a vocabulary problem

Dom Selvon

Apr 8, 2026

5 Mins

People First

Image description - An AI generated image of two roles slowly merging and overlapping represented by two people standing back to back, but with still a clear delineation between them

Designers and developers have been converging for years. AI just finished the job.