Tech Disruptors

Postscript differentiates itself through SMS marketing and sales software that can power brands to increase engagement with customers and understand them better, Adam Turner, CEO and cofounder, tells Bloomberg Intelligence. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Turner sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Niraj Patel to discuss the company’s software flywheel, infinity testing, b...

“What our customers are looking for is to move out of the pilot phase of projects and delivering enterprise value fast,” says ServiceNow Chief Commercial Officer Paul Smith. “The fastest we have seen from purchase to production is 60 days.” In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Smith and Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Anurag Rana discuss how enterprise tech spending beh...

As interest in generative AI broadens, Adobe’s chief strategy officer Scott Belsky says “The real opportunity is to build the orchestration layer and the actual applications that leverage these models in the ways you want to use them.” In this latest episode of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Tech Disruptors podcast, Belsky talks with BI senior technology analyst Anurag Rana about how Adobe is tackling c...

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“Ask the fundamental question: What if your workforce has no limits? This is really now about humans with agents driving customer success together,” Marc Benioff, cofounder and CEO of Salesforce, tells Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Anurag Rana. In this episode of Tech Disruptors, we sit down with a hallmark leader of the application-software industry to discuss his views on its...

As enterprises look to harness data that stems and flows through diverse and dispersed source and end-points, robust practices around storing, processing, access, availability, reliability and security need to be ensured, driving demand for compliance-automation platforms. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Drata CEO Adam Markowitz joins Sunil Rajgopal, senior software analyst at Bloo...

Sanctuary AI, which focuses on providing humanoid robots to automakers, industrial manufacturers and logistics companies, is uniquely positioned because of its “hands-first” approach that approximates human dexterity, says cofounder and chief technology officer Olivia Norton. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Norton sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Mand...

Unifying the business communication stack from contact center to sales team to business collaboration is Dialpad’s focus. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Craig Walker, founder and CEO, speaks about the company’s AI solutions across unified communication as a service, contact centers and conferencing. Walker sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Niraj Patel and dives into so...

Mass-scale storage may be ripe for disruption as NAND flash memory plays a bigger role within cloud and corporate IT environments, taking share from more energy-intensive hard disk-based storage arrays. In this episode of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Tech Disruptors podcast, Pure Storage CEO Charlie Giancarlo sits with BI analyst Woo Jin Ho on the company’s 15-year anniversary to discuss why its techn...

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...