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Debbie Baldwin, Director of Product Management, Acumatica Manufacturing has seen manufacturing hit turning points before - but this one seems different. To understand AI's impact on manufacturing, we need to go deeper - into how global markets have changed, along with customer expectations and need for supply chain visibility. Before Baldwin built cloud ERP for manufacturing with Acumatica, she sp...

Xero CTO and CPO Divya Jolly joins the diginomica network podcast to discuss why the agentic AI moment is set to mirror the cloud accounting revolution - elevating the profession rather than replacing it - and why human judgment remains the one thing no AI agent can replicate. With a career spanning YouTube and Okta, Jolly also reflects on the data, AI and security lessons she is now applying to o...

Every enterprise vendor is talking about AI agents — but without understanding how your business actually operates, the returns will fall short. In this episode, diginomica's Derek du Preez talks with Carsten Thoma, President of Celonis, about why operational context is the missing ingredient for enterprise AI. From freeing processes from vendor lock-in to the SaaS-pocalypse debate to a renegotiat...

Every enterprise vendor has an AI strategy - but Zoho's approach is different. During this two-in-one podcast, diginomica's Jon Reed talks with Ram Ramamoorthy is Director - AI Research at Zoho & ManageEngine. followed by Raju Vegesna, Zoho Chief Evangelist. From data sovereignty to delayering the stack, from data privacy to the dangers of outsourcing your "intelligence," Ramamoorthy and Veges...

EBRD CIO Subhash Chandra Jose joins the diginomica network podcast to discuss leading a five-year technology modernisation at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development — a bank that was never meant to last this long — and why geopolitical upheaval has made its mission more critical than ever.

Holland & Barrett CFO Vineta Bajaj joins the diginomica network podcast to discuss the wellness retailer's 2025 annual results - including £43.5 million invested in technology - and why building your own tech stack beats buying off the shelf.

Deb Ashton has been one of the constants at Certinia through more than two decades of change. In this podcast, she reflects on some of the lessons learned, the challenges for services businesses today, and being ready to seize opportunity.

Does AI make cloud ERP irrelevant - or deliver on its promise? And how to we line up AI innovations with customer needs, rather than sell them on tech for its own sake? In the lead up to Acumatica Summit 2026, Jon Reed had an open discussion with Acumatica's Ali Jani and Miten Mehta. But would Jani and Mehta share Jon's AI hype frustrations, or counter them? Listen in...

Mollie Brentnall, Director of IT for Crawford & Company UK, discusses how her background as a professional fencing coach shaped her approach to technology leadership, networking, and supporting diverse talent in the tech sector.

Thomas Kleine-Möllhoff, CIO of garden tools manufacturer Gardena and VP of IT at parent company Husqvarna Group, discusses how standardisation creates the foundation for innovation rather than stifling it. Drawing on his experience at Pfizer and Coca-Cola, Kleine explains how a 60-year-old gardening company empowers staff to experiment with AI and emerging tech while maintaining operational discip...

In this episode of Executive Intelligence, diginomica's Derek du Preez speaks with Duncan Angove, CEO of Blue Yonder, about transforming supply chain management — from fragmented point solutions to an integrated end-to-end platform approach, and how AI is pragmatically being applied to deliver real examples of business value rather than hype. 

In our latest Executive Intelligence podcast, Phil Wainewright speaks to Kriti Sharma, CEO IFS Nexus Black, for an inside view on IFS' pursuit of industrial AI. The two explore the upside of industrial AI but also how to address the risk factors. Is autonomous AI viable in industrial settings? If so, how should it be managed? Listen in...

On the brink of Dreamforce 2025, dignomica's Stuart Laughlan caught up with r. Potential CEO Greg Shewmaker to hash out the transition to a new world of Digital Labor, and the changes that entails for organizations as they deepen their AI initiatives.

UiPath’s SAP transformation became a use case for automation-first ERP - achieving a 93% clean core and scaling finance 7x revenue without adding headcount. But what does “agentic ERP” really look like in practice? Can AI agents work alongside humans and robots without adding risk? And what lessons can technical founders take from scaling UiPath from Bucharest to a global platform? Listen to CEO D...

Sage's 2017 purchase of SaaS finance innovator Intacct has become one of the most improbable acquisition stories in the history of enterprise software. Our hot seat guest, Sage CTO Aaron Harris, was in the middle of all of it. But bringing multi-tenant finance innovation to the rest of Sage was just the beginning. Now SaaS faces a disruptive challenge of its own, via the rise of agentic AI. How ha...

Acumatica is at a crossroads - and so is cloud ERP. Acumatica CEO John Case joins diginomica's Jon Reed to take on the tough questions facing ERP vendors: can ERP withstand AI disruptions? Is modern ERP an oxymoron? Why is ERP for industry verticals the new imperative? Case makes his case for Acumatica's differentiating approach. 

AI adoption is a topic of conversation that dominates every tech agenda in 2025, with views ranging from evangelical fervor through to the ‘Robots are coming to steal your job’ Armageddon peddling. For Freshworks CEO Dennis Woodside, there’s a different way of looking at the issue. Woodside joins diginomica's Stuart Lauchlan to probe further.

There's no doubt that AI is bringing big changes to the software industry, and is likely to have a huge impact on society at large. At business software vendor Zoho, those changes have meant that, after more than 25 years as CEO, co-founder Sridhar Vembu has moved over to take on the role of Chief Scientist, leading the company's R&D efforts, particularly around AI. In this Executive Intellige...

In this podcast, Marc Benioff discusses how he and other CEOs of today are set to become the last generation to manage a human-only workforce and the organizational implications involved. 

In our diginomica podcast channel reboot, we kick off with a couple of "best of" episodes from Jon Reed's "Busting the Omnichannel" podcast series - with a quick intro from Jon on our upcoming plans for the diginomica channel. Acumatica has been a influential vendor in the cloud ERP midmarket - but does AI change the equation? Were there surprises on the ground in Vegas? Time to make sense of an i...

In our diginomica podcast channel reboot, we kick off with a couple of "best of" episodes from Jon Reed's "Busting the Omnichannel" podcast series - with a new intro from Jon on our upcoming plans for the diginomica channel. From Jon: "At ASUG Tech Connect 2024, for the first time, I hosted a joint podcast collaboration with the ASUG Talks team - to be issued on both of our platforms. Joining me i...

We don't often hear SAP talking about big impact projects but it has its hands on many projects around the world that go well beyond the ERP for which they are so well known. Check out this conversation. 

This is a fascinating conversation that runs a goo hour so buckle up and enjoy the ride as Rod explains the problem and how Santander has found a promising solution. 

A wide-ranging conversation covering the difficulties surrounding enterprise software pricing

The three of us discuss what needs to happen within the SAP community of developers - starting with developer licensing for SAP Cloud Platform but inevitably so much more.