The Enterprise Edge

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 consump...

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 archite...

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 Reven...

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 appointi...

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 ...

The "SaaS is dead" narrative has been making the rounds - but the numbers just told a very different story. In this episode ofEdgeBytes, we cut through the drama and go straight to the data: Salesforce just closed fiscal 2026 at $41.5 billion in revenue with $72.4 billion in contracted backlog, while Workday posted 13% full-year growth and nearly 20%cash flow expansion. These aren't the metrics of a dying category - t...

What does a 116-year-old almond cooperative and cutting-edge enterprise AI have in common? More than you'd expect. In this episode of The Enterprise Edge podcast, host Mark Vigoroso sits down with Steven Birgfeld, VP of Information Technology and Services at Blue Diamond Growers - the iconic brand behind Almond Breeze and those ubiquitous snack nuts - for a rare, candid look at enterprise transformation from the practitioner...

What if your office building could read the room - literally? In this episode of The Enterprise Edge podcast, host Mark Vigoroso sits down with Bob Cicero, Cisco's Americas Future-Proofed Workplace Director and a 25-year company veteran who joined the company during the dot-com boom and never stopped taking calculated risks. Bob pulls back the curtain on how Cisco's own flagship office in Penn One, New York achieved a 5X in...

NEW EdgeBytes Episode from The Enterprise Edge: Trust is no longer a compliance checkbox. It's a strategic asset. At the recent 2026 Munich Security Conference, two announcements signal a turning point for enterprise AI, defense modernization, and digital sovereignty - and they deserve our attention and analysis.1. The Trusted Tech Alliance - 15 global tech giants (Microsoft, Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Anthropic, SAP,...

EdgeBytes Episode 2 from The Enterprise Edge: The Enterprise Software Reckoning. The current enterprise software tailspin isn't what you think it is.36,165 tech jobs lost in just 6 weeks of 2026. Salesforce cutting 1,000. Workday down another 400. Amazon slashing 16,000 corporate roles.But these aren't failing companies. They're profitable enterprises making high-stakes bets. In this latest episode of EdgeBytes, I break...

5-minute POV on recent announcements from ServiceNow...First, Panasonic Avionics Corporation - the company that puts entertainment systems in your airplane seat - just ripped out legacy CRM and went all-in on ServiceNow's AI-powered platform to manage 300 airline customers. And ServiceNow and Anthropic just announced a deep partnership integrating Claude directly into the Now Platform. More evidence that Bill McDermott and team...

Paul Baier didn't just survive the dot-com crash - he learned lessons that make him uniquely qualified to cut through today's AI hype. Now CEO of GAI Insights and Harvard Business School Executive Fellow, Baier helps Fortune 500s and startups answer the question boards are finally demanding: "Show me the actual numbers." In this conversation, we go beyond the buzzwords. Baier reveals what "AI-hybrid organizat...

Forget the tired playbook of relentless growth-at-all-costs; Leanne Taylor, Chief Revenue Officer at SYSPRO, dismantles the myth that bigger is always better in this essential episode of The Enterprise Edge. With the precision of someone who's built revenue engines across continents, Taylor reveals why "growth for growth's sake is actually a recipe for disaster" and argues that the most dangerous thing leaders can...

Close out 2025 with a front-row seat to the future of enterprise AI as Workday CTO Peter Bailis reveals how one of enterprise software's most successful platforms is reimagining work itself. In this season finale of The Enterprise Edge podcast, Bailis unpacks Workday's bold "compound AI systems" architecture - a sophisticated approach that's transforming how 11,000 companies worldwide manage their most critica...

In this episode, host Mark Vigoroso sits down with Corey Spencer, General Manager and Global VP of AI at UKG, for a masterclass in enterprise AI strategy. Spencer pulls back the curtain on UKG's groundbreaking Workforce Intelligence Hub - a platform designed to turn decades of siloed HR data into actionable insights - while candidly addressing the industry'sthorniest challenges: AI hallucinations, trust deficits, and the mo...

Join The Enterprise Edge founder and CEO Mark Vigoroso as he sits down with Vignesh Subramanian, Infor's SVP of Product Management overseeing AI, analytics, automation, and platform strategy, for a wide-ranging conversation that moves from the technical to the operational to the personal. Learn why Infor has doubled down on industry-specific SaaS solutions while carefully navigating the hyperscaler game, how agentic AI is resha...

In this episode of The Enterprise Edge podcast, Informatica's EVP and Chief Product Officer Krish Vitaldevara delivers insider perspectives on the Salesforce acquisition - valued at $8 billion - and why it represents a perfect strategic alignment between two companies that share DNA around vendor neutrality and partner-first ecosystems. Fresh from joining Informatica in March after leadership roles at Microsoft, Google, and Net...