Tech Disruptors

The highly distributed, dispersed and dynamic nature of enterprise data fuels demand for robust data-query engines for analytics and to drive intelligence. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Starburst CEO Justin Borgman joins Sunil Rajgopal, senior software analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, to discuss the shifting landscape for these products. They examine the future of data solution...

Managing identity access to enterprise data for employees, contractors and now non-human users, which will likely include AI agents, may continue to grow in importance, even as the debate on point products vs. platforms persists. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, SailPoint CEO Mark McClain joins host and Bloomberg Intelligence senior analyst Mandeep Singh to weigh in on the breadth a...

Revenue orchestration is emerging as a new software category aimed at guiding best practices in sales to drive repeatable outcomes. In this episode of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Tech Disruptors podcast, Salesloft’s CEO David Obrand joins Niraj Patel, BI senior software analyst, to discuss the rapidly evolving sales-software stack across organizations, Salesloft’s competitive position and how chief t...

Automating finance, which spans accounts payable and receivable, payments, spending management and planning for small and medium businesses, remains BILL’s North Star. Rene Lacerte, CEO and founder, spoke about his passion to help SMBs and how BILL lets customers break away from manual processes. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Rene sat down with Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Nira...

Industry-specific cloud products as Salesforce’s fastest-growing business are seeing steady adoption as customers look for out-of-the-box software solutions and to reduce the total cost of ownership. “I don’t think any company can afford too much customization, so I believe they’re all looking for something that’s fast and purpose-built,” Jeff Amann, executive vice president and general manager of...

Data architecture is core to building robust enterprise applications, and as enterprises focus on harnessing unstructured data, new non-relational database solutions have seen increased adoption. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Sahir Azam, chief product officer at MongoDB, joins Sunil Rajgopal, senior software analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, to discuss the data-technology landsc...

“One of the most important elements of copilots going forward is going to be the context you make available to it. Everybody wants a copilot to understand them,” says Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Business and Industry Copilot, Charles Lamanna. Speaking with Anurag Rana, Bloomberg Intelligence’s senior technology analyst, in this Tech Disruptors podcast episode, Lamanna highlights the fund...

The reason to bring AI or any other such technology into a company is to drive business outcomes, and Uniphore has delivered these outcomes by packaging AI solutions as software-as-a-service, CEO Umesh Sachdev tells Bloomberg Intelligence. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Sachdev joins BI senior technology analyst Mandeep Singh to discuss the AI opportunity with conversational inter...

How long could the strong growth in the physical infrastructure for data centers last? And what about the impact of AI and other emerging technologies? Could that extend the demand cycle for Schneider and industrials peers? In this episode of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Tech Disruptors podcast, Peter Herweck, CEO of Schneider Electric, sits down with Omid Vaziri, Bloomberg Intelligence senior industr...

A race to deliver the fastest AI system is emerging, resulting in a crop of new companies with innovative approaches to AI processing. Cerebras returns to the Tech Disruptors podcast studios to discuss the broadening AI market opportunity for its wafer scale engine (WSE) chip. CEO Andrew Feldman sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Hardware analyst Woo Jin Ho to discuss the future evolutio...

Businesses are turning to data to build their competitive edge, and AI tools will likely become a core layer of business intelligence and analytics platforms. In this episode of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Tech Disruptors podcast, Ariel Katz, CEO of Sisense, joins Sunil Rajgopal, BI senior software analyst, to discuss the democratization of enterprise analytics and intelligence tools, the shift towar...

AI-fueled product innovation is likely to reset many functions and industries, and companies could look to harness the full power of their data to drive business intelligence. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Mike Capone, CEO of Qlik, joins Sunil Rajgopal, senior software analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, to discuss enterprise analytics and intelligence tools, the evolving data-int...

Okta CEO Todd McKinnon says clients are increasingly asking about resiliency in identity security — a mission-critical enterprise application — amid the fallout of the CrowdStrike global outage. In this episode of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Tech Disruptors podcast, BI tech analyst Mandeep Singh talks with McKinnon about the moats that Okta has carved over Microsoft, consolidation in cybersecurity, t...

Enterprises implementing AI would likely end up with a combination of their own core specialized models and out-of-the-box frontier solutions, Rafee Tarafdar, Infosys’ Head of Strategic Technology Group said on the Tech Disruptors podcast. Tarafdar and Bloomberg Intelligence’s senior technology analyst Anurag Rana discussed several AI use cases across retail, supply chain, services and operations,...

Building responsive and high-powered websites through an intuitive and visual development approach is Webflow’s core strength, with its no-code technology offering broad appeal to marketers and engineers. Vlad Magdalin, co-founder and chief innovation officer, tells Bloomberg Intelligence. Linda Tong, Webflow’s CEO, also shares her thoughts on software-spending trends and customer segmentation in...

“Every customer recognizes that it is data that is the fuel that powers AI,” says Arun Ulag, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Azure Data. In this episode of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Tech Disruptors podcast, Ulag talks with BI senior technology analyst Anurag Rana about how Microsoft has been reorganizing its data management and insights portfolio for customers looking to leverage their data...

Enterprise information management tools, processes and outcomes are set to evolve with AI and the shift to cloud. In this episode of Tech Disruptors, OpenText CEO and CTO Mark Barrenechea joins Sunil Rajgopal, senior software analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, to discuss the development of the enterprise information management landscape, AI-led product and productivity initiatives and the company’...

“Generative AI with a combination of cloud and data is poised to transform every aspect of how organizations operate,” Amazon Web Services Vice President of AI and Data Swami Sivasubramanian says in the latest episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast. Sivasubramanian sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Anurag Rana to discuss key developments in data and generative AI, and...

Companies’ decision-making is increasingly driven by data, with the quality of that data critical, especially in AI-driven applications. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Barr Moses, founder and CEO of Monte Carlo, joins Sunil Rajgopal, senior software analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, to discuss the intricacies of data-dependent intelligence and how data-observability solutions can...

Helping the consumer tackle the financial marketplace for credit cards, auto loans, mortgages, insurance and other financial products is the value that Credit Karma brings to its over 130 million customers, says Ryan Graciano, co-founder and chief product officer of Credit Karma. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Graciano sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Niraj Patel to e...

“Underlying large language models have advanced significantly in the past six months, so that’s allowed us is to start looking at software development in a much more ‘agentic’ approach, where the agent essentially becomes a collaborator with the software developer,” says Deepak Singh, vice president of next-gen developer experience at Amazon Web Services. On this episode of Tech Disruptors, Singh...

“Microsoft is making a bet that we’re not going to need a single AI, we’re going to need many different AIs” Sebastien Bubeck, Microsoft’s vice president of generative-AI research, tells Bloomberg senior technology analyst Anurag Rana. In this Tech Disruptors episode, the two examine the differences between a large language model like ChatGPT-4o and a small language model such as Microsoft’s Phi-3...

The cloud’s need for a high-performing AI infrastructure to support growing large language models has opened a Pandora’s box of performance bottlenecks. In this edition of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Tech Disruptors podcast, Ayar Labs CEO Mark Wade and VP of Commercial Operations Terry Thorn sit down with BI hardware and networking analyst Woo Jin Ho to discuss the company’s co-packaged silicon photo...

Cohere is one of the frontier large-language-model companies focusing on enterprise-use cases to differentiate it from OpenAI GPT, Google Gemini, Meta Llama, Anthropic Claude and Mistral. Cohere co-founder Nick Frosst joins Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Mandeep Singh to discuss what makes Cohere unique in its approach to model training and deployment. They discuss retrieval augm...

The workflow-management-solutions sector is evolving fast, yet remains fragmented and likely on the hunt for new revenue models. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Thomas Scott, CEO of Wrike, joins Sunil Rajgopal, senior software analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, to discuss how AI tools are used to boost client and internal productivity, the demand environment and the company’s produ...