Salesforce Connections 2025 - the podcast review
SAP and Enterprise Trends Podcasts from Jon Reed (@jonerp) of diginomica.com
Release Date: 06/15/2025
On ERP value, AI disruptions and where we go from here - hot issues from Sage Analyst Day 2026
SAP and Enterprise Trends Podcasts from Jon Reed (@jonerp) of diginomica.com
After a vigorous first day at the 2026 Sage analyst event, Brian Sommer and Jon Reed hash out an ERP vendor with a provocative approach to AI for finance. Why has Sage advanced the conversation with domain-specific finance models? What did the customers on-site say about AI adoption/disruption? Is there a compelling future for ERP beyond a simplistic image of agentic prompts? What open questions does Sage need to tackle at their upcoming Sage Future user event in late April? Note: due to saving Sage's news previews for Sage Future, this podcast focused on hot issues rather than...
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Hashing out a provocative enterprise AI keynote - live at CRM Playaz IRL with Esteban Kolksy
SAP and Enterprise Trends Podcasts from Jon Reed (@jonerp) of diginomica.com
Esteban Kolksy, Chief Distiller at Constellation Research, closed out the CRM Playas IRL (In Real Life) event in Atlanta with a provocative keynote the debunked enterprise AI myths, while making a case for where the value in AI truly lies. After Kolsky left the stage, we broke down his main points on why LLMs are becoming commodities, and why proper enterprise AI is superior to out-of-the-box frontier models. Is AI "intelligent" - or a fascimle of intelligence - and why does this matter? We argued, at times, before landing on why Kolsky hates context graphs, and why I believe the misuse of the...
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Enterprise month in review - agentic AI gut check time - with Andreas Welsch
SAP and Enterprise Trends Podcasts from Jon Reed (@jonerp) of diginomica.com
Yep, we're back. It's time to join us for our unscripted review of the enterprise year to date. We also have special guest Andreas Welsch on tap, for an agentic AI enterprise gut check, timed with the Wednesday, February 25th announcement of his new book, The HUMAN Agentic AI Edge. As always, the audience brought their savviest and snarkiest comments. Note: to check Brian's infamous slide deck, go to the live video replay at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yGo9a01lPA&t=3s.
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ZohoDay 2026 - the impromptu recap with Thomas Wieberneit
SAP and Enterprise Trends Podcasts from Jon Reed (@jonerp) of diginomica.com
After two full days at ZohoDay 2026, Jon Reed and Thomas Wieberneit quickly regrouped for some first impressions on the slew of news and potent topics, such as intelligence as a commodity, the tension between custom solutions and technical debt, advances in AI coding that impact Zoho's own development teams, and reactions from customers on site.
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ZohoDay 2026 - the unscripted review with Brian Sommer
SAP and Enterprise Trends Podcasts from Jon Reed (@jonerp) of diginomica.com
ZohoDay 2026 is in the books. But while the assembled mass of industry analysts were still in Austin, Jon Reed and Brian Sommer grabbed a quiet room for an unscripted recap. There was a flurry of news at this show to make sense of, some of it NDA but most of it not. The guys were on the clock this time, with only 25 minutes to hit on the hottest issues from customers, partners, and Zoho leadership - not to mention Zoho fleshing out the "Zoho ERP" news. Brian had his infamous hand-scrawled notepad on the state of Zoho, and Jon walked listeners through Zoho's take on the changing risks of SaaS...
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ERP vendors versus AI agent disruptions - an information discussion gets heated
SAP and Enterprise Trends Podcasts from Jon Reed (@jonerp) of diginomica.com
During their Acumatica Summit podcast review, Jon Reed and Brian Sommer went off into a full-blown treatment of ERP versus AI agent disruptions. Sommer managed to expertly nudge Reed into blowing a gasket over LinkedIn AI exuberance, so we decided to release this back and forth as a separate 15 minute podcast (you can also hear the full Acumatica Summit review as a separate podcast). *** This debate is not intended as a complete coverage of this topic, just as a flavor for the issues ERP vendors and their customers are facing ***. Though this discussion references Acumatica, it's about the ERP...
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Acumatica Summit 2026 - the virtual review with Brian Sommer
SAP and Enterprise Trends Podcasts from Jon Reed (@jonerp) of diginomica.com
An unforgiving storm kept Brian from the tarmac, but that didn't stop Jon and Brian from doing their annual Acumatica Summit review, the virtual edition. On the last afternoon of the show, Jon caught up with Brian for an online review of Acumatica's AI news and strategy... What moved the needle, and what didn't? The guys also delve into customer proof points, including the use case discussion Brian did with a customer this week. Brian also lured Jon into ripping into a major cloud ERP versus AI fanboys/girls rant, but to keep this podcast focused, that will be released next week.
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Acumatica Summit 2026 - views and reactions on-site with Josh Greenbaum
SAP and Enterprise Trends Podcasts from Jon Reed (@jonerp) of diginomica.com
On the second full day of the Acumatica Summer 2026, Josh Greenbaum crashes the show with Jon to make sense of Acumatica's cloud ERP customer impact as the AI plot thickens. We get into our candid talks with customers, partners and Acumatica leadership, and what we found in our own session crashing also. (Brian Sommer was not able to make it in person, look out for a virtual show review with Brian soon).
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Are ERP and SCM vendors ready for AI security? - the Louis Columbus interview
SAP and Enterprise Trends Podcasts from Jon Reed (@jonerp) of diginomica.com
In the January edition of the Enterprise month in review, we interviewed Louis Columbus with the burning question: are ERP and supply chain vendors ready for AI security, and new attack vectors like prompt injection? Louis has been nailing this on his Venture Beat AI security blog - so we put him in the hot seat to see what we could learn. This podcast is only the Columbus interview, which has been optimized for sound quality. If you want to see the full video replay with slides, check: https://youtube.com/live/-DQBB6mYJ_g.
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Enterprise month in review - ERP (and supply chain) vendors aren't ready for AI security
SAP and Enterprise Trends Podcasts from Jon Reed (@jonerp) of diginomica.com
Are ERP and supply chain vendors ready for AI security, and new attack vectors like prompt injection? Our special guest Louis Columbus says no. Louis has been nailing this on his Venture Beat AI security blog - let's put him in the hot seat and see what we can learn. Your hosts Brian Sommer and Jon Reed will also share their underrated news stories of the month, and unleash their enterprise highs and lows via the infamous slide deck. As always, bring your savviest (and snarkiest) commentary and let's get this done. Note: this is the full show, including our first 20 minutes of underrated news...
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