WBSRocks: Business Growth with Enterprise Software and Digital Transformation WBSP736: Grow Your Business by Learning from Enterprise Software Stories - Feb 2025, Ep 6, an Objective Panel Discussion
The tech landscape is rapidly evolving as major players and emerging startups alike double down on AI-driven innovation and infrastructure transformation. Qlik’s acquisition of Upsolver enhances real-time data ingestion for Apache Iceberg, while Epicor’s new Prism Vertical AI Agents are reimagining how frontline workers interact with enterprise intelligence. In parallel, Apple’s entry into a consortium focused on next-gen AI data centers highlights growing urgency around power and scalability, especially as experts predict data center energy demands will double within five years. Meanwhile, strategic moves like SAP’s quantum computing ambitions, IBM’s acquisition of AST to deepen Oracle capabilities, and startups like ThoughtSpot, Qbiq, and Vasco advancing AI-powered solutions for analytics, design, and revenue planning underscore a new era of intelligent, responsive enterprise tech.
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.
Background Soundtrack: Away From You – Mauro Somm
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