Customer sentiment at winter events was clear: give us results. Show us how to turn disruption into a positive organizational force. Help us avoid the pitfalls of the move fast/break things type of AI. The top of my event highlights? Manish Chandak of Tech Electronics, who shared an exceptional change initiative, with cloud ERP as the driver.
No SaaSpocalypse on show here. Quite the contrary as Oracle revenue soars.
Purpose-built AI for Finance removes manual analysis steps and delivers governed, explainable insights. Research from GENCFO reveals why tech in and of itself may not be enough: 44% of Finance teams call themselves strategic partners, but only 17% act like it.
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The recent NetSuite SuiteConnect event in New York City built on themes from its late 2025 user conference, SuiteWorld, and featured their new AI capabilities.
About every decade or so, some old school application vendors find their market & technology have shifted while they didn’t. As a result, some new entrants end up on the leaderboard while a previous leader slowly, painfully fades away. We’re about to re-visit this phenomenon again as the cloud apps world will be overtaken by a new AI apps age.
The 'SaaSpocalypse' is a too simplistic narrative to reflect the reality of what's actually likely to happen across the enterprise tech stack.
Deb Ashton has been one of the constants at Certinia through more than two decades of change. In this podcast, she reflects on some of the lessons learned, the challenges for services businesses today, and being ready to seize opportunity.
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Oracle's Hari Sankar outlines five pragmatic principles for finance leaders to harness AI and shift FP&A from reactive reporting to proactive, insight-driven decision-making.
The AI era makes for new bedfellows as the likes of Intuit partner with the LLM providers who are supposedly a threat to their very existence!
SAP can see disruption ahead from AI, but it's on top of the situation.
A strong Q4 and full year - still not enough to keep the Wall Street short termists happy...
The 'SaaSpocalypse' myth isn't standing up to much scrutiny here...
Klarna is "one of the major retail banks in the world", insists CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski.
