WBSRocks: Business Growth with Enterprise Software and Digital Transformation WBSP805: Grow Your Business by Learning from Enterprise Software Stories - Aug 2025, Ep 32, an Objective Panel Discussion
AI commercialization and regulatory scrutiny are reshaping the market. Product announcements from SAP, Unit4, Deltek, Sage Intacct, and NetSuite highlight continued investment in cloud distribution, verticalized functionality, and embedded AI—often via hyperscaler marketplaces and agent frameworks—while transactions such as SYSPRO acquiring riteSOFT and Advantive acquiring PINPoint reinforce the ongoing push toward capability-led M&A in manufacturing and asset-centric environments. Partnerships like Pipefy with Oracle reflect the race to operationalize generative AI beyond experimentation, while the antitrust ruling involving SAP and the shareholder investigation into Lamb Weston Holdings serve as a reminder that legal, regulatory, and governance forces remain an active counterweight to rapid innovation.
In today's episode, we invited a panel of industry analysts for a live discussion on LinkedIn to analyze current enterprise software stories. We covered many grounds, including the direction and roadmaps of each enterprise software vendor. Finally, we analyzed future trends and how they might shape the enterprise software industry.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNRK47Sjt-U
Questions for Panelists?
🔗Sam Gupta: linkedin.com/in/samguptausa/
🔗Robert Kramer: linkedin.com/in/robert-kramer-58239b22/
🔗Thomas Wieberneit: linkedin.com/in/thomaswieberneit/
🔗Jan Burian: .linkedin.com/in/janburian/
🔗Jon W. Hansen: linkedin.com/in/jwhansen/
Background Soundtrack: Away From You – Mauro Somm
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