It’s that time of year again when I start making the rounds of the financeSHOWCASE events. Yesterday I attended the Leeds event. My presentation this year focuses on the need to treat automation projects as process improvements projects first and foremost. It also covers process improvements workshops, how to prioritise, avoiding failure, the automation toolkit… Read More »financeSHOWCASE – Key Process Automation Principals
Establishing solid use cases for generative AI can be difficult. At Spectrum we’ve added GenAI to our enquiry management process to classify incoming customer communications and to our accounts payable solution to match invoice line descriptions to order line descriptions but until recently I hadn’t found a standalone ‘AI Agent’ I could back. Enter Paraglide.… Read More »AI Agents: Automating Accounts Receivables
Show all features is not effective……Such a great post from Max Luepertz on LinkedIn: This post follows on from my discovery meeting structure post but instead starts to answer the question ‘why do we do discovery in the first place’? There are lots of reasons to do discovery sessions: One of the biggest benefits to… Read More »A wild demo request appears: Pre-sales uses show all features!
A discovery meeting should not be a polite chat before a demo. When I run discovery sessions around process automation, whether that is Accounts Payable, Sales Order Processing, or Customer Enquiry Management, I usually frame the meeting around these three objectives.
Cutting Through the AI Noise There’s not doubting that Artificial Intelligence can deliver real business value but cutting through the marketing theatre can be draining. Every vendor is clambering to claim it, every product suddenly has it, and yet most people still struggle to explain what it actually means and does. This course takes a… Read More »AI is everywhere: But do we actually understand it?
Thrilled to be chosen as an Abbyy Most Valuable Professional again this year. You can find out more about the MVP program here – https://www.abbyy.com/mvp/ Abbyy defines an MVP as such: An ABBYY Most Valuable Professional (MVP) is a distinguished title awarded to developers who demonstrate exceptional expertise in ABBYY AI, contribute significantly to the ABBYY… Read More »Abbyy Most Valuable Professional: 2026 Award