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The Three Waves Diagnostic

Places a software product on the three waves of enterprise software (transactions, information, the tacit layer) and scores how hard the next wave is already pulling on it.

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Two pages, and they do different jobs. Page one is the map: what each wave codified, which vendors it made, and why the tacit layer re-opens a market that had begun to look settled. It is the argument of this issue’s focus feature on one sheet.

Page two is the scoring sheet. Ten questions about a single software product, answered YES, PARTIAL, or NO, and tallied out of twenty. Score it for what you sell, or for the system your operation depends on and the vendor behind it. The band you land in says whether Wave 3 is a roadmap item or an urgent one.

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