When a wrote this blogpost, my great colleague Ryan Piper, just posted a great post on LinkedIn with this title. The perfect title for my post, so I asked him for permission to use it, thanks Ryan. Nice teamwork. The Nervous System AI Agents are missing Everyone wants to talk about the brain of an…
At, among others, Boomi World (London, June 2026), Kong API Tour, at API-days (o.a. Netherlands, Germany), in the hallways between sessions at half a dozen smaller events across Europe this year, I have asked system integrators how business is going. Over and over, I hear a version of the same answer, this is one of…
Components, Vendors, and the backbone that connects them. There is a moment in every technology shift when the pieces start to become clear. Not just what the technology does, but what it requires, what infrastructure, what governance, what connective tissue makes it real rather than theoretical. We are in that moment now with agentic AI. The rise of agentic…
There was a time when being a System Integrator meant being the smartest person in the room when it came to connecting systems. You knew the middleware, you knew the APIs, you knew how to make disparate enterprise platforms talk to each other. That was your value. That was your vision. But now, with the…
For a long time, data sovereignty in European IT felt like a political slogan, something policymakers said during press conferences while CIOs quietly signed another contract with a US hyperscaler. That era is ending. In 2026, data sovereignty stopped being a talking point and became a procurement requirement, an architectural principle, and, quietly, a competitive…
For most of the history of enterprise technology, systems have talked in whispers. They process requests, store data, and generate reports, but they wait for you to ask before they talk. If a payment fails, or an order ships, or inventory levels dip low, the news doesn’t travel on its own. It waits passively for…
