The Enterprise Edge

Everyone with a dog in the enterprise AI hunt is obsessing over GPUs, data centers, and foundation models - but Chris Stansbury, President & CFO of Lumen, says they're all missing the nervous system. In this episode of The Enterprise Edge® podcast, Chris makes a compelling case that the real bottleneck of the AI era isn't compute - it's data movement. He gives a candid account of how Lumen quietly transformed from a debt-laden ...

Four major enterprise software announcements over the pastweek - from SAP, Intuit, Workday, and IBM - and on the surface they look unrelated. But dig deeper and they're all pointing at the same shift: enterprise AI value is no longer about which company has the smartest model, it's about which platform owns the operational context, trusted data, and execution workflows that make AI decisions actually stick. SAP is building a govern...

(https://lnkd.in/eXqZBrFh) | “… now with AI - and are rolling this out as we speak - we can do that whole [order volume and frequency] process for you. We can write that initial email. We can send it. We can wait for the response from the retailer. When they come back for clarification, we have all the data to give them clarification. We don't need a person to do that. I think that's where we're seeing a lot of excitin...

What do 255 years of thoroughbred bloodlines have to do with the cutting edge of enterprise AI? More than you'd think. In this episode of The Enterprise Edge, host Mark Vigoroso sits down with Gary Hodsden, Head of IT Digital Products andProjects at Weatherbys Digital Solutions - the UK firm that has been the backbone of global horse racing data since 1773. Twelve years into his Weatherbys tenure, Gary shares candid insights on how...

"There's more [supply chain] turbulence ...from a macroeconomic, political, and climate perspective; there's a lot more events than we had in the past. So we need that agility. And ultimately we need to serve our customer... But traditionally we were looking at OTIF (On Time in Full), but now, especially since we partnered with Alloy.ai, In-Stock is the most important metric because the most important thing is to add product on the...

If your supply chain planning still runs on monthly forecastreviews and flat-file data dumps, you're already behind - and this podcast explains exactly why. Supply Chain Planning Reimagined is a special series from The Enterprise Edge® in partnership withSAP, and episode 1 - The Vision Shift: Reimagining Supply Chain Planning -  brings together Xavier Duprat, VP of Supply Chain Planning at Cascades (a packaging and hygiene gia...

Salesforce’s latest moves - Headless 360, Agent Fabric, FDE,and AgentExchange - aren’t product updates, they’re a coordinated shift in how enterprise software gets work done. The company is collapsing the distance between intent and execution by making CRM callable, composable, and governable by agents - not humans. With over $72B in RPO, Agentforce ARR up 169% year over year, and real-world deployments claiming p...

Mike Gugluizza, Director of Enterprise Business Applications at Accuray, has a masterclass to share on exactly how to unlock the power of AI - you have to earn it. Accuray builds AI-driven radiotherapy devices that target cancer cells to within one one-hundredth the width of a human hair, leaving surrounding healthy tissue untouched, and their on-device AI tracks tumor movement in real time by predicting how a patient's body will m...

What does it take to do what the entire medical establishment said couldn't be done? In this episode of The Enterprise Edge podcast, Dr. John Oberg - founder and CEO of Precina Health - lays out how he and his partner achieved something remarkable: in a pilot study of 50 Type 2 diabetes patients from rural, low-income communities, 49 reached full glycemic control within 12 weeks, and 83% stayed in control for the next two years. Th...

What does it take to lead digital transformation inside a $900 million health system without losing your mind or your mission? In this episode of The Enterprise Edge, host Mark Vigoroso sits down with John McDaniel, CIO of Trinity Health, who is doing exactly that: running parallel implementations of Epic and Workday, decommissioning over 100 legacy applications, and building an AI governance framework that draws a precise, princip...

Three major enterprise tech vendor moves landed within daysof each other: SAP acquiring Reltio, IBM closing an $11 billion deal for Confluent, and IFS scrapping user-based pricing entirely - and the common thread is the removal of friction en route to enterprise AI value realization. This episode of EdgeBytes breaks down what each move actually means: SAPbetting that data integrity, not the AI model itself, is the real competitive ...

In this EdgeBytes episode, host Mark Vigoroso decodes threequiet but seismic operator moves - OpenAI's new revenue leadership hire, Atlassian's bold decision to cut 10% of its workforce to self-fund AI investment, and MongoDB's strategic CRO appointment - and connects the dots toone unavoidable conclusion: enterprise AI has crossed the threshold from experimentation to economic accountability, and the tech buyers and operators that...

If you want to understand where enterprise software isactually heading - not the marketing narrative, but the structural reality - this EdgeBytes episode connects the dots: a $100M-valued startup redefining software as a prompt, a projected $600B M&A surge compressing the mid-market, and NVIDIA quietly positioning itself as the foundation beneath it all. The Enterprise Edge Founder & CEO, Mark Vigoroso breaks down what this...

Beneath IBM’s recently announced expanded NVIDIA collaboration and a quantum-centric supercomputing blueprint lies a single, disciplined strategy: own the orchestration layer of enterprise AI, where infrastructure, models, governance, and data converge, and then extend thatcontrol point into the next era of computing before competitors can follow. While hyperscalers commoditize horizontal platforms and model providers chase c...

In this episode of EdgeBytes from The Enterprise Edge®,Mark Vigoroso examines two recent announcements from IFS and Blue Yonder that highlight a structural shift underway in supply chain technology. As enterprises move beyond forecasting dashboards toward AI-driven systems thatobserve, decide, and execute in real time, the center of gravity is shifting from planning to operational action. With global transportation costs often cons...

In this episode of EdgeBytes, Mark Vigoroso breaks down two moves reshaping the enterprise AI landscape: OpenAI's Frontier - already in play at Fortune 500 giants like Intuit, Uber, and State Farm, compressing six-week manufacturing cycles down to a single day - and Anthropic's Claude Cowork, the AI that doesn't just assist, it executes. We're not talkingchatbots. We're talking a three-layer AI workforce architecture: embedded agen...

In this EdgeBytes episode, host Mark Vigoroso breaks down Oracle's blockbuster Q3 earnings report - including a staggering $553 billion in Remaining Performance Obligations, up 325% year over year - and explains why that number is far more than a financial headline. It's a forward signal that the enterprise AI market has shifted from experimentation to industrial-scale infrastructure commitment. Mark brings his unique Revenue Physi...

In this episode of EdgeBytes, we provide our measured analysis and recommendations based recent announcements from SAP and ServiceNow. ServiceNow is deploying autonomous agents in telecom and government with real,measurable results - Bell Canada's 25% faster customer response times and the City of Raleigh's 98% AI deflection rate - and SAP is making a bold organizational bet, creating a new Customer Value Group and appointing a Chi...

What does the founding CTO and EVP of Product of a $300M+ data platform know that most enterprise leaders don't? In this episode of The Enterprise Edge podcast, host Mark Vigoroso cuts through the AI-for-BI noise with Daren Thayne - who has been at Domo since day one, and before that helped Ancestry.com leapfrog its competitors and eventually acquire them both. Daren doesn't deal in hype: he shares how Domo's engineers are using Cl...