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).
EMA™ Radar for Enterprise Orchestration 2026: Platforms Converging Towards the Enterprise Control Plane - Part 3
PART 3 OF 6
Topics:
Radar Report
Workload automation
WLA Radar 2026
Process orchestration
enterprise orchestration
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The ServiceOps Shakeout: Which Tools Still Matter?
My first article in this series, ServiceOps at the Point of Action: Redefining IT Service Management for Autonomous Operations, ended with a question: Which ServiceOps technologies will remain essential, which face commoditization, and where will operational software value migrate as AI assumes greater responsibility for execution? The answer may depend less on which tools AI replaces than on how organizations rethink the work those tools support.
ServiceOps at the Point of Action: Redefining IT Service Management for Autonomous Operations
For decades, IT service management (ITSM) has followed a familiar model: detect a problem, create a ticket, assign responsibility, investigate, coordinate a response, and document the resolution. Monitoring, observability, asset management, and automation tools support the process, but people connect the information and move work forward. That assumption is now being tested.
EMA™ Radar for Enterprise Orchestration 2026: Platforms Converging Towards the Enterprise Control Plane - Part 2
PART 2 OF 6
There Won't Be a Single Context Layer
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.
EMA™ Radar for Enterprise Orchestration 2026: Platforms Converging Towards the Enterprise Control Plane - Part 1
IN THIS Series
Part 1 — Why Distributed Control Is the Starting Point: Enterprise Automation Is Already Federated
Part 4 — Domain Control Planes Are Emerging Inside the Enterprise: Why Smarter Domains Do Not Automatically Centralize Execution — coming Nov 10
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
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Skip the Definitions. What Problem Are You Trying to Solve?
The Semantics of Semantics, or Putting Context into Context
If you’re exploring conversational AI solutions, here’s a simple test: ask the same question five times, in five sessions, and see if you get the same answer five times. I do this regularly as part of my research. Too often, I get different answers, and once in a while, data that should never have been returned.
