WBSRocks: Scaling Growth with AI, Enterprise Software, and Digital Transformation
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WBSRocks: Scaling Growth with AI, Enterprise Software, and Digital Transformation
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 CFO, Tray.ai’s Agent Hub, Genstore’s $10M seed round, and Blue Yonder’s new TMS features underscore the accelerating push toward AI-enabled automation and orchestration layers across finance, integration, and supply chain. Versori’s partnership with Fluent Commerce and Acumatica’s 2025 R2 update further signal growing emphasis on ecosystem connectivity and incremental platform modernization. At the same time, the darker counterpoint is impossible to ignore: Zimmer Biomet’s $172M ERP lawsuit against Deloitte, a major European city council’s continued delays in fixing a failed Oracle system, and the EU Commission’s investigation into SAP’s practices reinforce how execution risk, vendor governance, and regulatory scrutiny are now front-and-center issues for enterprise buyers. Taken together, these developments reflect a market bifurcating between rapid AI-driven experimentation and escalating consequences for large-scale ERP missteps—raising the strategic stakes for both technology selection and transformation leadership.
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 vendors. Finally, we analyzed future trends and how they might shape the enterprise software industry.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tFlYu6W_iw
Questions for Panelists?
🔗Sam Gupta: linkedin.com/in/samguptausa/
🔗Robert Kramer: linkedin.com/in/robert-kramer-58239b22/
🔗Michael Fauscette: linkedin.com/in/mfauscette/
🔗Blair Pleasant: linkedin.com/in/blairpleasant/
🔗Kenneth ("Kengon") Gonzalez: linkedin.com/in/kengon/
Background Soundtrack: Away From You – Mauro Somm
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