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Point-of-view articles from our practice areas — enterprise applications, supply chain and logistics technology, applied AI, cloud infrastructure, and data platforms.
Rebates, chargebacks, and the hidden ledger inside your SAP landscape
The most consequential financial logic in many enterprises doesn't live in the general ledger. It lives in rebate agreements, chargeback rules, and incentive programs — and most organizations design it last.
Freight visibility is an integration problem wearing a dashboard costume
Everyone buys the map with the moving trucks. Almost nobody budgets for the EDI plumbing that decides whether the trucks on the map are real.
Why SAP and Vistex Modernization Projects Stall — and How to Avoid It
Most SAP and Vistex modernization programs don't fail on technology — they fail on process discipline. Here's where the risk actually lives, and how to design around it.
Where intelligent document processing pays off — and where it quietly stalls
Document AI can now read a crumpled BOL better than most humans. The projects that stall anyway fail at the same three points — none of which are the AI.
Clean core is an integration strategy, not a slogan
Every organization now says it wants a clean core. Few have decided where the displaced complexity should live instead — and complexity that isn't given a home finds one anyway.
Security you retrofit is security you rent
Enterprise and logistics systems accumulate integrations faster than they accumulate security reviews. The gap between those two rates is your real exposure.
Choosing a TMS: What Actually Matters in a Freight Technology Evaluation
Transportation management system evaluations tend to focus on feature checklists. The organizations that pick well are asking a different set of questions.
Nobody opens the dashboard, and that's the data telling you something
An unopened dashboard isn't an adoption problem to be trained away. It's an accurate verdict that the analytics answer questions nobody was asking at the moment a decision had to be made.
Beyond the Demo: What It Takes to Put AI Agents Into Production
The gap between an impressive AI agent demo and a production-grade automation system is wider than most organizations expect — and it's not primarily a model-quality gap.
Cloud Migration Without the Rehost Regret: A Framework for Enterprise Workloads
Lift-and-shift migrations are fast to plan and slow to pay off. A workload-by-workload framework produces better long-term outcomes than a single migration strategy applied uniformly.
Data Governance Isn't a Project, It's an Operating Model
Data governance programs that are launched as a project tend to decay within a year of launch. The ones that hold up are built as an operating model from the start.
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