WBSRocks: Scaling Growth with AI, Enterprise Software, and Digital Transformation
WBSRocks podcast features in-depth conversations on AI-enabled business models, customer experience, digital transformation, supply chain, eCommerce, industry 4.0, and enterprise software categories such as CRM, ERP, or analytics suites. The purpose of the show is to help CFOs, COOs, CEOs, and business owners with their daily commercial, operational, or financial challenges by taking a deep dive into business cases and processes, technology strategy and architecture, transformation initiatives, and business models. The show also offers an independent analysis of technology trends, various enterprise software vendors and solutions, and their mergers and acquisitions. Subscribe today to stay on top of digital transformation trends!
Episodes
828 episodes
WBSP829: Scale Growth by Understanding Rillet’s Capabilities, an Objective Panel
AI-native ERP platforms are fundamentally redefining the architectural assumptions that have governed ERP systems for decades, shifting the focus from rigid transaction processing toward adaptive, intelligence-driven orchestration. Unlike legac...
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Episode 829
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1:06:05
WBSP828: Scale Growth by Learning from Enterprise Software Stories - Jan 2026, Ep 42, an Objective Panel Discussion
This wave of product launches, acquisitions, and platform expansions highlights how enterprise software vendors are rapidly embedding AI, data integration, and domain-specific intelligence deeper into their operational cores. Announcements such...
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Episode 828
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1:02:54
WBSP827: Scale Growth by Learning the Top EAM Systems In 2026 w/ Sam Gupta
Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) systems have evolved from simple maintenance tools into strategic platforms that directly influence operational resilience, financial performance, and long-term scalability. Organizations depend on EAM to maxim...
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Episode 827
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17:10
WBSP826: Scale Growth by Learning ERP for Complex Equipment Manufacturers: Why Selection Fails and How to Fix It w/ Steve Moon
ERP selection for complex equipment manufacturers requires a structurally different evaluation framework than selection for high-volume or make-to-stock businesses, yet many organizations continue to rely on generic ERP shortlists, accounting-c...
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Episode 826
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1:02:06
WBSP825: Scale Growth by Learning from Enterprise Software Stories - Dec 2025, Ep 41, an Objective Panel Discussion
This wave of enterprise software announcements underscores how AI agents, ecosystem alliances, and data infrastructure are becoming foundational to modern enterprise architecture. Vendors such as Pipefy and Aquant are expanding libraries of pre...
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Episode 825
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1:01:34
WBSP824: Scale Growth by Learning the Top eCommerce Platforms In 2026 w/ Sam Gupta
eCommerce has transformed from a basic online ordering interface into a strategic digital channel that directly influences revenue growth, customer experience, and scalability. As customer expectations rise and digital journeys become more comp...
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Episode 824
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22:20
WBSP823: Scale Growth by Understanding the State of ERP in 2026, an Objective Panel Review
For decades, ERP systems have formed the operational backbone of enterprise organizations, enabling process consolidation, reducing data silos, and enforcing financial discipline. However, these benefits came with structural tradeoffs. Implemen...
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Episode 823
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1:03:37
WBSP822: Scale Growth by Learning from Enterprise Software Stories - Dec 2025, Ep 40, an Objective Panel Discussion
This cluster of enterprise software announcements highlights how vendors are rapidly embedding AI, expanding ecosystem integrations, and strengthening vertical depth to drive measurable operational outcomes. From Camunda’s integrations with Ser...
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Episode 822
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1:03:14
WBSP821: Scale Growth by Learning the Top TMS Systems In 2026 w/ Sam Gupta
Transportation management has evolved into a strategic control point for cost optimization, service reliability, and long-term supply chain resilience. As freight networks grow more fragmented and execution complexity increases, selecting a TMS...
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Episode 821
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21:06
WBSP820: Scale Growth by Learning from Enterprise Software Stories - Nov 2025, Ep 39, an Objective Panel Discussion
This week’s enterprise software announcements reflect a broad, coordinated push toward AI-native experiences layered across collaboration, operations, finance, and core business platforms. Salesforce’s latest version of Slack, Oracle’s role-bas...
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Episode 820
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1:01:24
WBSP819: Scale Growth by Learning the Top WMS Systems In 2026 w/ Sam Gupta
When evaluating WMS systems for 2026, it is essential to recognize that this is a structurally best-of-breed category rather than an extension of ERP or eCommerce platforms. This analysis deliberately excludes lightweight warehouse workflows em...
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Episode 819
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15:02
WBSP818: Scale Growth by Learning from Enterprise Software Stories - Oct 2025, Ep 38, an Objective Panel Discussion
This week’s enterprise software developments underscore a widening gap between rapid AI-driven platform innovation and the unresolved execution risks embedded in large-scale ERP programs. On one side of the ledger, Mendix and OutSystems both ad...
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Episode 818
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1:00:02
WBSP817: Scale Growth by Learning the Top HCM Software In 2026 w/ Sam Gupta
HCM operates under a different operational gravity, shaped by higher data sensitivity, greater regulatory exposure, and people-centric workflows that do not map cleanly to financial or supply chain logic. HR data carries a uniquely elevated ris...
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Episode 817
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17:06
WBSP816: Scale Growth by Learning from Enterprise Software Stories - Oct 2025, Ep 37, an Objective Panel Discussion
This week’s enterprise software headlines highlight a market simultaneously accelerating into agentic AI while still wrestling with the structural and legal fallout of past transformation failures. On the innovation front, Genstore’s $10M seed ...
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Episode 816
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1:01:04
WBSP815: Scale Growth by Learning the Top Marketing Automation Systems In 2026 w/ Sam Gupta
While most modern CRMs offer basic marketing automation, those native modules are typically optimized for simple campaign execution and lead nurturing and often lack the depth, specialization, and innovation velocity of dedicated platforms. Thi...
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Episode 815
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19:50
WBSP814: Scale Growth by Understanding DualEntry’s Capabilities, an Objective Panel Review - Part I
AI-native ERP platforms are fundamentally redefining what buyers should expect from enterprise systems, not just in how they automate work, but in how they are architected, implemented, and governed over time. In this independent, evidence-base...
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Episode 814
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1:03:48
WBSP813: Scale Growth by Learning from Enterprise Software Stories - Oct 2025, Ep 36, an Objective Panel Discussion
This week’s enterprise software news highlights a widening gap between glossy innovation narratives and the hard operational and governance realities shaping buyer risk. On the innovation side, BlackLine’s launch of Verity for the Office of the...
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Episode 813
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1:01:20
WBSP812: Scale Growth by Learning the Top Retail Digital Transformation Trends In 2026 w/ Sam Gupta
The top retail digital transformation trends for 2026 capture a fundamental shift from incremental modernization to structural re-architecture, driven by the collision of macroeconomic headwinds and on-the-ground operational strain. Geopolitica...
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Episode 812
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25:28
WBSP811: Grow Your Business by Learning from Enterprise Software Stories - Oct 2025, Ep 35, an Objective Panel Discussion
This cluster of announcements illustrates how enterprise software vendors are converging on monetizable AI, composable ecosystems, and domain-specific depth rather than headline platform reinvention. Product expansions such as BillingPlatform’s...
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Episode 811
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1:00:16
WBSP810: Grow Your Business by Learning the Top 10 CRM Systems In 2026 w/ Sam Gupta
When evaluating the CRM category, our analysis intentionally moves beyond CRM modules embedded within ERP systems and instead focuses on best-of-breed CRM platforms and the full spectrum of capabilities that define modern customer engagement. T...
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Episode 810
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20:01
WBSP809: Grow Your Business by Learning from Enterprise Software Stories - Sep 2025, Ep 34, an Objective Panel Discussion
Enterprise software vendors are tightening execution around AI enablement, workflow depth, and operational recovery rather than pursuing broad platform reinvention. Acquisition activity—from Sage moving to acquire Fyle, to SYSPRO acquiring DATA...
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Episode 809
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1:01:58
WBSP808: Grow Your Business by Learning the Top 10 ERP Systems In 2026 w/ Sam Gupta
Before reviewing the top ERP systems for 2026, it is essential to align on how ERP systems are defined in this analysis: the focus is on individual ERP products, not the vendors that own them. This distinction matters because products within th...
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Episode 808
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19:59
WBSP807: Grow Your Business by Learning from Enterprise Software Stories - Sep 2025, Ep 33, an Objective Panel Discussion
ERP and adjacent platform vendors are simultaneously deepening vertical specialization, expanding AI distribution, and accelerating ecosystem-led growth. M&A activity from Advantive acquiring PINPoint, SYSPRO acquiring DATASCOPE, and Sage m...
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Episode 807
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1:02:19
WBSP806: Grow Your Business by Learning the Top ERP Vendors In 2026 w/ Sam Gupta
Before reviewing the top ERP vendors for 2026, it is critical to align on what “ERP vendors” actually represent in this analysis: companies, not individual ERP systems. This distinction is essential because most vendors operate multi-product po...
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Episode 806
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45:43
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—o...
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Episode 805
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