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Everyone Now Sells a Semantic Layer for Processes. Who Makes It Portable?
In October SAP, Celonis, ARIS and Microsoft all positioned their own layer as the place where enterprise AI learns how your business works, and an ARIS/Hackett study put a number on it: 5x. These layers make agents better inside each platform; what most customers still lack is the connection between platforms, and governance over it. What practitioners should ask, and where a customer-owned knowledge core pays off first.
We Widened the Radar: Knowledge Graphs, Semantic Layers and AI Context Are Now Tracked Topics
For weeks our market read kept ending on the same word: context. So we expanded the trend radar behind this feed. It now tracks semantic layers, context and knowledge graphs, and the standards beneath them through six new strategic lenses. Here is what changed, how to read it, and what the first sweep already shows.
The BPM Market This Week: Convergence Wins, and "Context" Becomes a Contested Asset
This week the market's loudest theme was convergence: BPM, Enterprise Architecture and Process Intelligence collapsing into one conversation. Celonis pushed "Return on AI" from every direction while its lawsuit against SAP over data access reminded everyone that owning your process context is now a strategic choice. Here is the practitioner's cut, plus what it means for tool independence.