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Jakob Freund

Oct 28, 2019

How to (not) become a Digital Enterprise – Prioritizing Customer-Focused Innovation

This blog post is the second of a five-part series based on the keynote I presented at CamundaCon 2019 (You can find the recording on YouTube). You can read the first blog in this series here. In essence, I recommend: Prioritizing customer-focused innovation. Bringing technology to the heart of your company. Automating your business, one project at a time. Putting executives in charge who care about long-term success, their people and the world.

By Jakob Freund

Oct 21, 2019

How to (not) become a Digital Enterprise

This blog post is the first of a five-part series based on the keynote I presented at CamundaCon 2019 (You can find the recording on YouTube). The Quest for the Digital Enterprise A few weeks ago a Startup called Ethos raised $60M Venture Capital, bringing their external funding to more than $100M within 14 Months. Ethos want to make getting life insurance fast and easy by “turning a process that was once like going to the DMV to more like shopping online”.

By Jakob Freund

Jul 16, 2019

The Zeebe Story

I’m incredibly excited that Zeebe is now GA and ready to be used in production. You can download the distribution and inspect the source code on GitHub. Zeebe implements fundamentally new concepts for workflow automation which allow for unprecedented horizontal scalability. With Zeebe, you can orchestrate microservices of any scale while ensuring complete visibility into the executed business processes. This solves one of the major problems we are seeing in the software development space today, a problem that cannot be solved by any of the existing workflow products in the market.

By Jakob Freund

Nov 28, 2018

RPA can delay your Digital Transformation

This is the most tangible insight I took away from attending an RPA conference in London this week. It was actually stated by one of the keynote speakers (he literally said: “many organizations use RPA to delay their digital transformation.”). I share this sentiment. Here is an RPA adoption journey that is not inevitable but can happen:

By Jakob Freund

Oct 18, 2018

The (Re-)Emergence of Workflow Automation

This blog post is based on the keynote I presented at CamundaCon 2018. It covers these four points: We’re all turning into technology companies. Digital Transformation relies on Business Process Automation (BPA). BPA is a technology puzzle that suits your business. Workflow automation is always one piece of that puzzle. I am going to elaborate on each point and describe how I see Camunda contributing to this general development.

By Jakob Freund

Dec 29, 2017

Camunda Review 2017

Here is a summary of how the Camunda company did in 2017. I hope you’ll enjoy reading it as much as I did writing it. Financials For our revenue growth 2013-2016, we’ve already been awarded by Deloitte as one of the 50 fastest growing tech companies in Germany, and one of the 500 fastest in EMEA. This year, we accelerated even more and grew the Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) by 89%. We are still fully profitable and self-funded, despite the fact that we grew our staff to a total of 70 employees and opened two offices in the US. Customers We signed up many new customers, among them impressive names such as PricewaterhouseCoopers. Generally speaking, we’re seeing more and more…

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