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EMA™ Radar for Enterprise Orchestration 2026: Platforms Converging Towards the Enterprise Control Plane - Part 4

By Dan Twing on Nov 10, 2026, 8:47:06 AM

PART 4 OF 6

Topics: Radar Report Workload automation WLA Radar 2026 enterprise orchestration domain control plane automation governance automation observability

Ask AI. Then Ask an Analyst.

By Herb Blecher on Nov 4, 2026, 10:54:37 AM

On Sunday afternoon, I sent Francois Ajenstat a draft of my November EMA Vendor to Watch on Golden Analytics (spoiler alert). It came out of several weeks inside the software: an onboarding session, a trial run against my own benchmark data, a roadmap briefing, and more hours than I’d budgeted (that last part is a compliment).

Topics: independent analysis software evaluation Golden Analytics ai research

What The Midterm Election Results Mean for Cybersecurity

By Chris Steffen on Nov 4, 2026, 10:34:54 AM

Topics: Cybersecurity CISA ai regulation midterm elections

EMA™ Radar for Enterprise Orchestration 2026: Platforms Converging Towards the Enterprise Control Plane - Part 3

By Dan Twing on Nov 4, 2026, 10:20:34 AM

PART 3 OF 6

Topics: Radar Report Workload automation WLA Radar 2026 Process orchestration enterprise orchestration

The Evolution of Autonomous ServiceOps — Part 2

By Parker Hathcock on Nov 3, 2026, 3:53:02 PM

PART 2 OF 6

Topics: Automation ITSM serviceops observability Agentic AI

The Evolution of Autonomous ServiceOps — Part 1

By Parker Hathcock on Oct 30, 2026, 2:34:29 PM

IN THIS Series

Part 1 — ServiceOps at the Point of Action: Redefining IT Service Management for Autonomous Operations

Part 2 — The ServiceOps Shakeout: Which Tools Still Matter?

Part 3 — Who Gives AI Permission to Act? — coming Nov 13

Part 4 — The CMDB Isn't Dead. AI Just Made It More Important. — coming Nov 27

Part 5 — Beyond MTTR: Measuring What Autonomous ServiceOps Actually Delivers — coming Dec 4

Part 6 — The Economics of Autonomous ServiceOps: Does Consolidation Really Reduce Complexity? — coming Dec 11

Topics: IT service management Automation ITSM serviceops Agentic AI ai governance Orchestration

EMA™ Radar for Enterprise Orchestration 2026: Platforms Converging Towards the Enterprise Control Plane - Part 2

By Dan Twing on Oct 26, 2026, 4:48:54 PM

PART 2 OF 6

Topics: Workload automation WLA Radar 2026 enterprise automation workload orchestration

There Won't Be a Single Context Layer

By Herb Blecher on Oct 21, 2026, 9:27:19 AM

The industry has talked a lot about what context is and why it’s important, but not as much about where it should sit. Now, across IT, it’s appearing at every step, from the gateway to the data platform to consumption. Context is both a standalone product and a feature.

Topics: Semantic layer ai context layer enterprise AI governance AI data context

EMA™ Radar for Enterprise Orchestration 2026: Platforms Converging Towards the Enterprise Control Plane — Part 1

By Dan Twing on Oct 20, 2026, 9:37:40 AM

IN THIS Series

Part 1 — Why Distributed Control Is the Starting Point: Enterprise Automation Is Already Federated

Part 2 — A Holistic View of Enterprise Automation: How Workload and Process Orchestration Fit Together

Part 3 — From Local Automation to Enterprise Control: Why Some Consequential Automation Needs Enterprise Coordination

Part 4 — Domain Control Planes Are Emerging Inside the Enterprise: Why Smarter Domains Do Not Automatically Centralize Execution

Part 5 — From Observability to Operational State: How Observability Supplies State to Federated Automation — coming Nov 17

Part 6 — Governance and Assurance as the Convergence Point for the Enterprise Control Plane: How Leaders From Orchestration and Adjacent Markets Will Shape the Enterprise Control Plane — coming Nov 24

Topics: Radar Report Workload automation control plane cross-domain automation automation orchestration

AI Is the New Excel

By Herb Blecher on Oct 13, 2026, 9:19:57 AM

Analysis is getting easier. Getting the answers right isn’t.

Topics: Data governance AI ai dashboards

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