Process intelligence pure-play Skan partners to add enterprise-scale capabilities

The rapid rise of process intelligence has seen countless pure-play vendors emerge, each with a unique approach to proving transparency at scale. Led by a lack of a complete package offerings by individual vendors, there have been acquisitions aplenty in this space, such as Appian acquiring Lana Labs, Automation Anywhere acquiring FortressIQ, and IBM acquiring MyInvenio. Still, some vendors are standing strong and pulling their partnership levers instead. One of these vendors is Skan, a pure-play process intelligence vendor that recently added mindzie to its partnership roster in a play to deliver complete process transparency for enterprises.

Skan’s ecosystem includes Microsoft, UiPath, EvoluteIQ, and Instabase

Skan aims to provide continuous, real-time, data-driven visibility into how people work to drive transformation for enterprises. We have written about its mission to help enterprises x-ray their organization. To do this, Skan developed its own offering and pulled its partnership levers. Notably, the Skan ecosystem includes a flagship partnership with Microsoft and extends to UiPath, EvoluteIQ, and Instabase.

More recently, Skan announced a new partnership with mindzie to deliver enhanced process transparency for enterprises.

Linking with mindzie adds ERP data to Skan’s desktop data focus

Based in North America, mindzie’s core offering is its low-code process mining platform, which can be deployed both in the cloud and on-premises. Through the partnership, both vendors believe they can offer their clients complete process transparency by combining complementary approaches. Skan collects data from users’ desktops, providing user-level data and a user-centric process view in use cases such as claims management, customer onboarding, and customer support. The mindzie platform collects data from an organization’s ERP system, providing systems data and a system-centric process view in use cases such as order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, and record-to-report. All of this, in theory, combines to deliver a complete 360-degree view of an enterprise’s operations.

The partnership is also targeting a joint go-to-market approach, which is currently in development.

Skan must balance its focus on innovation with its ability to compete

Skan and mindzie have told us about their plans to capitalize on the latest advancements with emerging technologies, delivering further innovation and even faster time-to-value for their clients. While HFS believes a continued quest for innovation is overwhelmingly positive, Skan must ensure it balances it with the ability to win deals and service clients. In fact, Skan’s executives told us they have doubled-down on their innovation efforts—sometimes at the expense of investing in other areas. Skan must effectively balance innovation and competitiveness if it hopes to continue its impressive growth trajectory; otherwise, it may find itself with innovative tools enterprises struggle to use.

The Bottom Line: Enterprises looking for 360-degree process transparency should consider Skan.

If you’re looking for 360-degree process transparency within your enterprise, Skan is making a play to become your partner of choice. The latest partnership with mindzie is just one piece of the puzzle. When combined with Skan’s partnership ecosystem, proprietary technology, and impressive support services—which its clients repeatedly praise—it’s a proposition that should pique enterprises’ interest.