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Realities Remixed, formerly know as Cloud Realities, launches a new season exploring the intersection of people, culture, industry and tech.Business messaging is transforming customer engagement by enabling brands to move conversations into familiar, always‑on messaging platforms. The result for customers is greater convenience, quicker resolutions, and more meaningful, personalized interactions. This week, Dave, Esmee, and Rob are joined by Kathleen Tandy, Global Director and Head of Business Messaging Marketing and WhatsApp for Business at Meta , to explore how companies are using messaging platforms to engage customers, what customers expect from these experiences, and the challenges of scaling messaging in tech.TLDR00:35 – Introduction01:00 –  Hang out: The new Remarkable05:25 – Dig in: Using messaging to enhance customer experiences20:49 – Conversation with Kathleen Tandy55:26 – The passion for college football and championship weekend!GuestKathleen Tandy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kptandy/HostsDave Chapman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chapmandr/Esmee van de Giessen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/esmeevandegiessen/Rob Kernahan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-kernahan/ProductionMarcel van der Burg: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcel-vd-burg/Dave Chapman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chapmandr/ SoundBen Corbett: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-corbett-3b6a11135/Louis Corbett:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/louis-corbett-087250264/ 'Realities Remixed' is an original podcast from Capgemini

Is 2026 the year AI finally has to prove it is worth the investment? In this episode, I'm joined by Chris Riche-Webber, VP of Business Intelligence and Analytics at SmartRecruiters, to explore why so many AI and agentic AI initiatives stall after the pilot phase and what separates the projects that scale from the ones that quietly disappear. With Gartner predicting that more than 40 percent of agentic AI programs could be cancelled by 2027, Chris brings a pragmatic, data-led perspective on what is really happening inside organizations as the hype meets operational reality. We talk about the fundamentals that have not changed despite the new technology. Influence, clearly defined problems, measurable impact, and adoption still determine success, yet they are often overlooked in the rush to deploy the latest tools. Chris explains why "good vibes" are no longer enough in front of a CFO, how to baseline outcomes properly, and why ownership of results is one of the most common missing pieces in enterprise AI programs. A big part of the conversation focuses on what Chris calls the "agent washing" problem. Just as products are sometimes marketed with fashionable labels that do not reflect their real value, many solutions are being positioned as agentic without delivering true autonomy or business outcomes. We discuss how leaders can cut through the noise by asking better questions, aligning technology to specific use cases, and recognizing when simple automation is the right answer. Trust, adoption, and measurable ROI emerge as the three signals that determine whether an AI initiative survives. Chris shares a clear framework for defining these signals in a way that is consistent, comparable over time, and meaningful to the executive team. We also explore how connecting talent decisions to revenue, productivity, and retention changes the conversation, especially in the context of SmartRecruiters' broader SAP ecosystem and the opportunity to link people data directly to business performance. This is a conversation about moving from experimentation to accountability, from buying narratives to solving real problems, and from technology-first thinking to outcome-first leadership. So as the window for easy wins closes and the demand for proof of value grows, will your AI strategy be remembered as a pilot that generated excitement or as an initiative that delivered measurable business impact?

Europe does not have a deep tech problem. It has a commercialisation problem.The last European companies to reach €100B+ market caps were SAP and ASML, both founded 40–50 years ago. If Europe wants a new generation of deep tech champions, venture capital alone won't get us there. Customers have to step in.In this episode, Andreas Munk Holm is joined by Martin Schilling, former operator, investor, and founder of Deep Tech Momentum, to unpack why Europe excels at funding breakthroughs, but consistently fails to industrialise them.This is a conversation about:why enterprise buyers are the missing link in European deep techwhat corporates are doing wrong (and how they can fix it)how founders actually win large customers in complex, regulated marketsand why courage — not grants — is Europe's real constraintShare

What does it really take to sell an AI-native product into the Fortune 500? In this episode of Founded & Funded, Madrona Managing Director Matt McIlwain sits down with two founders deep in the trenches of enterprise AI adoption, Esha Joshi (Co-founder, Yoodli⁩) and Anup Chamrajnagar (Co-founder, Gradial.) Their companies are selling into some of the world's most complex organizations, like Google, SAP, Snowflake, Databricks, and more. And they break down what founders often underestimate about enterprise AI sales. They dive into: Why most AI pilots fail and how to prevent it The "three-legged stool" of enterprise sales How AI review boards are reshaping buying cycles Securing long-term contracts Pricing AI: seats vs. usage vs. outcomes Navigating non-deterministic AI failures with customers Building champions who accelerate their careers with AI If you're building an AI-native company and selling into enterprises, this is for you. Full Transcript: https://www.madrona.com/this-is-how-fortune-500-companies-are-buying-ai-today Chapters: (00:00) – Introduction (03:37) – Early AI Pilots: What Worked (and What Didn't) (05:01) – Sell Pain, Not Features (06:25) – Why Enterprise Expectations Are Higher Now (07:48) – Moving From "Wow" Factor to Durable Outcomes (09:17) – How to Structure a Pilot That Converts (10:35) – Expanding Beyond the Initial Wedge (13:41) – Turning Pilots Into 12-Month Contracts (14:47) – Navigating Procurement & AI Governance Boards (16:02) – What's Changed (and What Hasn't) in Enterprise Sales (16:45) – How to Increase Deal Velocity (19:39) – Using AI to Improve Your Own Sales Ops (20:20) – Are You Replacing Jobs with AI? (23:14) – Building Career-Accelerating Champions (23:46) – When AI Outputs Go Wrong (Real Stories) (25:23) – Why the Pilot Never Stops (29:04) – Pricing AI: Seats vs. Usage vs. Outcomes (34:48) – Go-To-Market Partnerships That Unlock Enterprise (37:25) – The Role of Forward-Deployed Engineers (38:44) – Final Advice for AI Founders Selling to Enterprise

For International Women's Day, we speak with SAP's Mindy Davis and Lori Harner on empathetic leadership, “Give to Gain,” AI-driven supply chain change, talent strategies, and embracing change.Download the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠episode transcript⁠===== In our International Women's Day episode, SAP's Mindy Davis and Lori Harner discuss empathetic leadership, the “Give to Gain” principle, and how AI is transforming supply chains. They highlight the importance of context, inclusivity, and being open to change, share strategies for attracting talent, and note the shift from efficiency and resilience toward autonomy in supply chain management.Come join us for this exciting journey!===== Guest: Mindy Davis, Global Vice President, Product Marketing, SAP Supply Chain ManagementMindy Davis is global vice president of product marketing for SAP Supply Chain Management, where she leads the marketing strategy for SAP's supply chain solution portfolio. Since joining SAP in 2004, Mindy has held key roles in marketing, alliances, merchandising, and business development. She is recognized for her expertise in building high-performing teams and providing innovative strategic leadership in the software industry. Mindy was featured on the front cover of CIO Look Magazine in 2022 as one of the 10 most influential leaders in supply Chain. She hosted a very well received LinkedIn Live series for Women in Supply Chain and speaks regularly at events around the world.Guest: Lori Harner, Vice President and Global Head of Product Marketing for Supply Chain Planning at SAPLori Harner is the Vice President and Global Head of Product Marketing for supply chain planning at SAP. With a long track record of building and leading high-performing teams, Lori brings a customer-first mindset to her role, driving innovative solutions that meet the complex needs of today's supply chains. Prior to joining SAP, Lori built the product marketing function and team for WEX, a leading financial services firm. Her extensive experience also includes leadership positions at Microsoft, Blue Yonder, E2open, and others. When not driving supply chain innovation, Lori enjoys an active lifestyle in Highlands Ranch, Colorado. She has a passion for the outdoors and loves hiking, walking, and biking. Host 1: Sin ToSin brings over 15 years of experience in the digital media and technology industry – primarily in marketing, business development, thought leadership, and editorial. At SAP, they ensure that SAP's supply chain solutions are properly visible with a focus on future trends and sustainable innovations as part of the Thought Leadership & Awareness Supply Chain Team.Host 2: Zoriana ZahorodniaZoriana is a Product Marketer specializing in Supply Chain Management. As an engaging content creator, blogger, and podcaster, she explores how supply chain innovations and sustainability shape the future of global business.===== Show Links:SAP Digital Supply Chain: www.sap.com/scmFollow Us on Social Media : Mindy DavisLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mindy-davis-88a2b54/ Lori HarnerLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lori-harner/ Sin To: LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/sin-to-5334208 Zoriana ZahorodniaLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoriana-zahordnia-a3096a205/SAP Digital Supply Chain:LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/showcase/sapdsc/ Please give us a like, share, and subscribe to stay up-to-date on future episodes!  ===== Chapters: 00:00:00 Supply Chain Transformation00:00:41 Podcast Welcome00:01:18 Meet Mindy and Lori00:02:39 Women Leading with Empathy00:04:52 Give to Gain Leadership00:06:21 From Efficiency to Resilience00:09:14 AI and Agentic Opportunities00:11:29 AI in Practice at SAP00:16:20 Women in Supply Chain Today00:19:11 Inclusive Leadership in Uncertainty00:21:20 Attracting the Next Generation00:25:18 Advice for Young Women00:27:55 Future of Supply Chain00:30:42 Closing and Thanks

In der heutigen Folge des Experten-Podcasts spricht Markus Wagner, Experte für Systembildung, darüber, wie Swarmatic mit KI Software in Wochen entstehen lässt. Swarmatic ist dezentral, adaptiv und menschenzentriert. Traditionelle IT wie SAP scheitert an Komplexität durch starre Strukturen und teure Teams. Swarmlets bilden Schwärme für ERP und Prozesse – skalierbar und ohne Programmierkenntnisse. Mittelstand passt sich schnell an Zölle oder Wirtschaftswandel an und senkt Kosten. Mehr auf www.dynaico.de. Hat dir der Experte gefallen? Kommentiere, starte und abonniere! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of Fireside with Founders and Leaders, host Rupert McSheehy welcomes Carlos Granda, an experienced operating advisor with a remarkable career spanning over three decades in the technology sector. Carlos shares his journey from being a chief customer officer at leading companies like Google, Salesforce, and SAP to transitioning into an advisory role within the private equity (PE) landscape. The discussion offers invaluable insights for anyone contemplating a career in PE, exploring the nuanced differences between operating in a PE-backed organisation versus traditional corporate environments.Carlos delves into the challenges and rewards of shifting from operator to advisor, emphasising the importance of building trust with leadership teams and understanding the unique dynamics of PE firms. He also introduces the concept of the "GRR Time Bomb"—a critical metric that can signal customer churn long before it happens. The conversation further touches on the transformative role of AI in enhancing value creation within PE firms and the common pitfalls faced by startups attempting to penetrate the enterprise market.

SME's face various challenges when adopting digital tools in Ireland, which is why empowering SMEs with accessible technology is critical to economic growth. A fast and  simple ERP can redefine the market dynamics for small business success and one man who knows all-out this is Morgan Browne founder and CEO  of Enterpryze. I recently caught up with Morgan to find out more.Morgan talks about his background, cloud erp solution, AI  and more.More about Morgan Browne:Morgan Browne is the Founder and CEO of Enterpryze and is a highly regarded member of SAP's Global Partner Executive Council and was a finalist in the EY (Entrepreneur of the Year Awards) in 2015.He spent a year studying Computer Science at the Institute of Technology Tallaght before catching the entrepreneurial bug. An avid businessman and technology enthusiast, Morgan Browne is passionate about helping SMEs succeed financially, and empowering them to achieve their full potential.With this in mind, Morgan purchased Milner Browne 10 years ago and developed it from a reseller business into a solutions company using SAP technology as a key platform provider.The Milner Browne Group develops business management software to help SMEs work smarter and more effectively, Milner Browne is a Deloitte best managed companies platinum member and a fast 50 finalist.In 2017, Morgan officially launched Enterpryze, the world's first mobile-first solution for SAP Business One.

In this episode of Pathmonk Presents, Philip Aguib, VP of Sales and Marketing at Vantree Systems, breaks down how electronic data interchange (EDI) powers global supply chains—and why a human approach wins complex B2B deals. Vantree Systems delivers integrated EDI solutions that connect ERPs like SAP, Microsoft, and NetSuite across manufacturing, distribution, logistics, and CPG industries. Philip shares how referrals, trade shows, and partner ecosystems drive growth, and why outbound sales is becoming essential in an AI-shaped buying landscape. He also dives into accelerating long sales cycles, leveraging CRM data segmentation, and building trust through empathy. A practical conversation for growth leaders navigating technical markets.

"Hablamos de SAP" con Mar Asensi, una consultora especializada en tesorería. Durante la charla, Mar detalla su trayectoria profesional, destacando su paso por grandes consultoras y su transición al modelo freelance tras la pandemia. La conversación profundiza en las particularidades de los módulos financieros de SAP, la importancia de la metodología y el impacto de nuevas herramientas como Fiori e inteligencia artificial. Asimismo, se resalta el valor de ACISAP, una asociación que fomenta la colaboración y el intercambio de conocimientos entre consultores independientes en España. Finalmente, hablamos sobre la gestión del cambio, la formación continua y la relevancia de construir una marca personal visible en el sector tecnológico.Más info...

In this HFS Research videocast with Mindsprint, Ashish Chaturvedi speaks with Rohit Sharma and Unnikrishnan Sasikumar on how supply chains are moving from visibility to intelligence amid disruption—shifting from AI pilots to outcome-led transformation (working capital, margin, customer experience). They explore what's driving demand today including real-time planning, control towers, supplier collaboration, predictive analytics and what's next: agentic AI for exception handling and the path to autonomous supply chains, grounded in trustworthy data foundations and an ecosystem approach across SAP/Microsoft cores plus specialist startups. Key discussion points include:Enterprise demand today is still centered on “visibility + decision support.” Most current programs focus on real-time planning, control towers, supplier collaboration, and AI-driven dashboards/analytics to enable faster decisions during disruption. Clear shift from tactical work to integrated, tech-enabled operations. Buyers are moving away from manual Excel forecasting and siloed portals toward integrated solutions that support automated exception handling (including agentic AI), plus broader ecosystem collaboration and traceability.A widening “spend today vs build tomorrow” gap is shaping strategy. Enterprises are still investing heavily in analytics modernization, cloud, and data foundations, while major tech vendors are pushing hard on generative AI and agentic architectures—creating a sequencing challenge. Trustworthy data is the gating factor for autonomous supply chains. The conversation emphasizes that without strong data foundations (freshness, accuracy, governance, and resolving conflicting data sources), autonomy can create bad decisions (e.g., stock-out risk when systems think safety stock exists). Organizational capabilities matter as much as technology. Beyond platforms and tools, capability building and guardrails (e.g., CoE / governance frameworks) are positioned as essential to unlock value from data and AI.The partner stack is hybrid: ERP core plus startup innovation. SAP and Microsoft are described as dominant “core” stacks, while many enterprises augment them with specialist startups/scale-ups for niche planning, visibility, risk, and sustainability, requiring an ecosystem approach.Progress is real, but not linear. Enterprises are still getting foundations right, even as the tech investment trajectory points clearly toward more autonomous, AI-driven supply chain operations.Read the HFS Horizons Report on Intelligent Supply Chain Services 2025: https://www.hfsresearch.com/research/hfs-horizons-intelligent-supply-chain-services-2025

In dieser Folge tauche ich tief in die Geschichte und das fulminante Comeback des Forward Deployed Engineer ein – einer Rolle, die von IBM in den 60ern geprägt, von SAP skaliert und jetzt von KI-Unternehmen wie Palantir und OpenAI neu erfunden wird. Ich zeige, warum diese Position heute wieder als „hottest Job in Tech“ gefeiert wird und was sie mit deinem Alltag als Solution Engineer zu tun hat. Gemeinsam beleuchte ich, wie sich Aufgaben, Verantwortlichkeiten und Skills von SEs und FDEs überschneiden und warum die Grenzen zunehmend verschwimmen. Du erfährst, was diese Entwicklung für deine Karriere bedeuten kann, warum echte Kundenerfolge mehr zählen als Demos und wie du dich auf die Zukunft im B2B Softwarevertrieb vorbereitest. Bereit für einen Blick hinter die Kulissen der modernsten Tech-Rollen? Dann hör rein! ----------

Change is easy to talk about and hard to embrace. Most people don't refuse change out of logic — they resist it out of instinct. Try the classic "fold your arms the other way" exercise: nothing meaningful is at stake, yet your body argues back. So if a tiny shift feels awkward, imagine what your team feels when you ask for a restructure, new CRM, new KPIs, or a new strategy. This transcript is a practical talk design that helps people move from grumbling compliance to genuine buy-in — especially when the change is big, public, or politically messy.  How do you define the change so people can actually embrace it? If the change isn't crystal clear, your audience will fill the gaps with fear, rumour, and resistance. Leaders often say "We're transforming" or "We're becoming more customer-centric," but that's fog, not a destination. Define the change like you're writing a survey question: precise, measurable, and impossible to misunderstand. In a Japanese context (where ambiguity can be read as risk), clarity matters even more; in a US or Australian context (where speed is prized), unclear messaging triggers frustration and scepticism. Spell out the outcome: what stops, what starts, what stays. Name the systems involved (Salesforce, Microsoft Teams, SAP, OKRs), the timeframe (this quarter, post-pandemic reality, as of 2026), and what "good" looks like. People embrace what they can picture. Do now: Write the change in one sentence + three bullets (Stop/Start/Continue). Read it aloud until it's clean. Why should you design the closing before the opening? Because your close is what people remember when they decide whether to support you — or quietly sabotage you.  Most presenters obsess over the opening and then improvise the ending, which is backwards. Start at the end for design clarity: you need two closes. Close #1 is what you say before Q&A. Close #2 is what you say after Q&A — and that second close is vital, because one random question can hijack attention. If a listener leaves thinking about an off-topic tangent, your recommendation dies in the carpark. Great executives at companies like Toyota, Rakuten, Amazon, and Atlassian know messaging discipline wins. Your final words should "ring in their ears" after the talk is over. Do now: Draft two 20–30 second closes: one to summarise, one to re-anchor after questions. What questions will kill your credibility — and how do you pre-empt them? Unprepared Q&A is where good change proposals go to die. You can have a brilliant idea, but if you stumble on obvious questions, people don't just doubt the detail — they doubt you. Anticipate likely objections: cost, workload, timing, fairness, risk, and "what's in it for my team?" Think in categories: frontline (time and tools), middle managers (authority and KPIs), executives (risk and ROI), and support functions (process and compliance). In multinationals, you'll also face "global vs local" questions; in SMEs, it's "we don't have resources." Pre-empt with short, confident answers and one supporting example each. You're not trying to win an argument; you're trying to protect trust. Do now: List the top 10 brutal questions. Write crisp answers. Rehearse them out loud with a colleague playing the sceptic.                                        How do you justify the need for change without sounding pushy? People accept change faster when you give a clear "why" and a compelling "proof," not a lecture. Your justification has two parts: (1) a direct statement of the need, and (2) an example that makes the need undeniable. The "why" should connect to real-world pressures: customer expectations, competitor moves, cost blowouts, quality issues, cyber risk, talent retention, or post-pandemic work patterns. The example should be specific: a client churn story, a missed deadline, a compliance near-miss, a sales cycle slowdown, or a service failure. In Japan, the example must be respectful and non-blaming; in the US, it can be more direct; in Australia, it should be straight but not self-righteous. Make it human, not abstract. Do now: Write your "why" in one sentence. Add one concrete example with numbers (even rough ones) and a short story. Why do you need three viable solutions, not one "obvious" answer? If you present one "perfect" option and two silly decoys, people feel manipulated — and they'll resist on principle. The goal is credibility. Offer three genuinely workable solutions, each realistic in cost, capability, and timeline. This signals balance and respect. Option sets also help different cultures and personalities: some audiences prefer incremental change (risk-managed), others want bold change (speed). Your job is to show you've done the thinking. Then — and this is the trick — you list pros and cons for each option in detail. Real options have real downsides; naming them makes you look objective and trustworthy. You're not hiding the pain; you're managing it. Do now: Build three options that could all work. For each, list 3 pros + 3 cons, including cost, time, and operational impact. How do you recommend "Option 3" without sounding like you've already decided? You earn the right to recommend Option 3 by making Options 1 and 2 feel genuinely credible first. Then you place your preferred choice last because recency bias is real: people remember what they heard most recently. But don't just declare it — prove it. State clearly: "We recommend Option 3." Then give evidence: impact on customers, speed to value, risk controls, resource fit, alignment to strategy, and what success looks like. If possible, anchor it in known frameworks (Kotter's change model, ADKAR, OKRs) or operational realities (training time, adoption curves, budget cycles). Finally, design an opening that punches through distraction — phones, notifications, social media — because the hardest part of public speaking in 2026 is winning attention in the first 30 seconds. Do now: Make Option 3 last, strongest, and evidence-backed. Write a punchy opening that earns attention fast. Conclusion If you follow this delivery structure — Opening → Need → Example → Option 1 (pros/cons) → Option 2 (pros/cons) → Option 3 (pros/cons) → Recommendation → Close #1 → Q&A → Final Close — you dramatically increase the odds of people adopting your change willingly. Getting people to change is hard. Getting them to embrace it takes design discipline. We have a bonus for you packed with free resources—one that'll make you go, 'Yep, this is exactly what I wanted.' Head to the link now.  dale-carnegie.co.jp/en/about/freebundles Author bio Dr. Greg Story, Ph.D. in Japanese Decision-Making, is President of Dale Carnegie Tokyo Training and Adjunct Professor at Griffith University. He is a two-time winner of the Dale Carnegie "One Carnegie Award" (2018, 2021) and recipient of the Griffith University Business School Outstanding Alumnus Award (2012). As a Dale Carnegie Master Trainer, Greg is certified to deliver globally across all leadership, communication, sales, and presentation programs, including Leadership Training for Results. Greg has written several books, including three best-sellers — Japan Business Mastery, Japan Sales Mastery, and Japan Presentations Mastery — along with Japan Leadership Mastery and How to Stop Wasting Money on Training. His works have been translated into Japanese, including Za Eigyō (ザ営業), Purezen no Tatsujin (プレゼンの達人), Torēningu de Okane o Muda ni Suru no wa Yamemashō (トレーニングでお金を無駄にするのはやめましょう), and Gendaiban "Hito o Ugokasu" Rīdā (現代版「人を動かす」リーダー). Greg also publishes daily business insights on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter, and hosts six weekly podcasts. On YouTube, he produces The Cutting Edge Japan Business Show, Japan Business Mastery, and Japan's Top Business Interviews, which are widely followed by executives seeking success strategies in Japan.

Dans ce nouvel épisode de Trends Bourse, Guy Legrand décrypte une semaine mouvementée sur les marchés financiers. En Europe, Solvay et Syensqo subissent une véritable “semaine des dégelées” après des résultats décevants et des perspectives incertaines. Faut-il y voir une opportunité d'achat ou un signal d'alerte durable pour le secteur chimique ? Aux États-Unis, Nvidia publie des résultats supérieurs aux attentes avec une croissance impressionnante, mais le titre recule en Bourse. Les investisseurs s'interrogent : les semi-conducteurs resteront-ils les grands gagnants de l'intelligence artificielle face aux valeurs de logiciels comme Salesforce ou SAP ? Dans un marché hésitant entre rotation sectorielle et doutes sur la rentabilité de l'IA, quelle stratégie adopter ? Diversification, arbitrage technologique, prudence ? Analyse complète des marchés européens et américains, et éclairage en fin d'épisode sur les enjeux de la dédollarisation. Trends Bourse est une chaîne podcast de Trends-Tendances. Plus d'informations et de conseils pour vos investissements sur www.tendances.be/bourse. Vous désirez recevoir chaque jour des conseils d'investissements dans votre boîte électronique, enregistrez-vous gratuitement sur www.tendances.be/newsletters.   Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this episode of the CPQ Podcast, Sergey Jermakov joins Frank Sohn to explore how CLARITY is moving beyond classic Quote-to-Cash into intelligent revenue operations management—a broader approach that connects CPQ with billing, revenue processes, and monetization models. Sergey explains how his role has shifted from "sales leader" to Revenue Architect, focused on designing scalable solution architectures and packaged delivery. They discuss CLARITY's focus on mid-market to enterprise organizations (now often $50M+ revenue) in high tech and hybrid product + services businesses, plus their expanded delivery footprint across Europe, North America, and Asia. A major theme is AI: not as magic, but as an accelerator. Sergey shares where AI adoption is strongest today (especially sales and marketing) and how AI can help with document-heavy work and data-driven pricing support—while also exposing weaknesses in process and data readiness. They also dig into why CPQ projects fail—reactive architecture, over-customization, and unclear ownership—and why CLARITY increasingly favors implementation packages over open-ended custom projects to drive faster time-to-value and more controlled releases. Finally, Sergey outlines why many SAP customers are moving from Quote 1.0 to SAP Quote 2.0, with performance and scalability as major drivers. Topics: CPQ, AI in CPQ, revenue operations, SAP Quote 2.0, CPQ implementation best practices, solution architecture, packaged delivery, hybrid selling.

This week on ASUG Talks, we learn how HP leveraged RISE with SAP to implement a single global SAP S/4HANA instance. Ramesh Gopinath, Senior Director of ERP and Workflow Platforms, joins the podcast to walk listeners throughout how the organization prioritized cross-organizational collaboration and managed critical systems downtime for maintenance during this digital transformation. Key Insights HP's experience using RISE with SAPHow the company approached testingCommunicating with end usersRelated Insights Read how Heartland Dental used SAP Build Work Zone to enable 6,000 business assistants supporting patients and doctorsJoin ASUG on March 5 for a community conversation focused on beginning to use SAP AI

Ihr kriegt aktuell 25 € vom Scalable-ETF, wenn ihr ein neues Konto eröffnet und nutzt. Dazu unterstützt ihr auch noch diesen Podcast. Mehr Infos gibt's hier. Hier das ganze Interview von Caspar mit dem SAP-CEO. NVIDIA trotz Rekorden 5% down. Allianz & Telekom mit Rekorden, aber Erwartungen hoch. Puma crasht weiter, setzt jetzt auf Hyrox. Gerresheimer nochmal 15% runter. Krispy Kreme will endlich wieder wachsen. Europas Fußballclubs machen Verlust. SAP will KI verkaufen. Rolls Royce (WKN: A1H81L) verdient so viel Cash wie nie. Erste Group (WKN: 909943) macht 3,5 Mrd. € Gewinn und kauft sich in Polen ein. Zwei der besten Europa-Aktien der letzten Jahre. London Stock Exchange (WKN: A0JEJF) kauft Aktien für 4 Mrd. $ zurück. Aktivist Elliott macht Druck. Ist das Datengeschäft durch KI bedroht oder profitiert LSEG sogar davon? Diesen Podcast vom 27.02.2026, 3:00 Uhr stellt dir die Podstars GmbH (Noah Leidinger) zur Verfügung.

Het is de dag van de bizarre plottwist. De dag dat de overnamesoap van Warner Bros. Discovery tot een einde kwam. Niet Netflix (dat al een deal had gesloten), maar Paramount gaat er met het bedrijf vandoor. Hun bod is 'superieur' en Netflix heeft geen trek om hun bod te verhogen. Netflix verliest, maar wint tegelijkertijd. Daar hebben we het deze aflevering over. Aandeelhouders van Netflix zijn blij dat ze de overname niet doen, maar is dat terecht? Creëren ze nu niet een monster van een concurrent? Hebben we het ook over Amerikaanse aandelen. Die zijn ineens een stuk minder populair bij Nederlandse, particuliere beleggers. Bij jou dus. Uit onderzoek van ING blijkt een derde van de Nederlandse beleggers minder belegt in de VS. En steeds meer kiest voor Europese aandelen.Ook hoor je deze aflevering over de kwartaalcijfers van Fugro en het verrassende vertrek van de CFO. Anthropic komt voorbij, dat overhoop ligt met de Amerikaanse overheid én we bespreken de enorme faal van SAP. Dat heeft geblunderd met bonussen. Te gast: Bob Homan, van ING Investment Office. BNR Beurs is een journalistiek onafhankelijke productie, mede mogelijk gemaakt door Saxo. Over de makers: Jelle Maasbach is presentator van BNR Beurs en freelance financieel journalist. Zijn favoriete aandeel om over te praten is Disney, maar daar lijkt hij de enige in te zijn. Sinds de eerste uitzending van BNR Beurs is 'ie er bij. Maxim van Mil is presentator van BNR Beurs en journalist bij BNR, waar hij zich focust op de financiële markten en ontwikkelingen in de tech-wereld. Je krijgt hem het meest enthousiast als hij kan praten over ASML, of oer-Hollandse bedrijven zoals Ahold of ABN Amro. Jorik Simonides is presentator van BNR Beurs, economieredacteur en verslaggever bij BNR. Hij wordt er vooral blij van als het een keer níet over AI gaat. Milou Brand is presentator van BNR Beurs, freelance podcastmaker en columnist bij het Financieele Dagblad. Jochem Visser is presentator van BNR Beurs, maakt Beursnerd XL en de podcast Onder Curatoren. Vraag hem naar obscure zaken op financiële markten en hij vertelt je waarom het eigenlijk nóg leuker is dan je al dacht. Over de podcast: Met BNR Beurs ga je altijd voorbereid de nieuwe beursdag in. We praten je in een kleine 25 minuten bij over alle laatste ontwikkelingen op de handelsvloer. We blijven niet alleen bij de AEX of Wall Street, maar vertellen je ook waar nog meer kansen liggen. En we houden het niet bij de cijfers, maar zoeken ook iedere dag voor je naar duiding van scherpe gasten en experts. Of je nu een ervaren belegger bent of net begint met je eerste stappen op de beurs, de podcast biedt waardevolle inzichten voor je beleggingsstrategie. Door de focus op zowel de korte termijn als de lange termijn, helpt BNR Beurs luisteraars om de ruis van de markt te scheiden van de essentie. Van Musk tot Microsoft en van Ahold tot ASML. Wij vertellen je wat beleggers bezighoudt, wie de markten in beweging zet en wat dat betekent voor jouw beleggingsportefeuille.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In episode 280 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Business Process Solutions!In our last episode we talked about the integration of SAP data into Fabric. As outlined there are multiple ways how to link or replicate data from your SAP systems to Fabric. However, we often hear from customers that the jounrey begins only then. You need to make sure that Fabric "understands" the semantics, you need to build dashboard in Power BI and you potentially want to get started to interact with your data from Copilot. In order to help customers and partners to get started more quickly, Bartosz and the team developed Business Process Solutions: prebuild resources including data models, transofmrations and business templates. Our colleuage Noopur then extended all of this in Copilot Studio, so that you can actually chat with your data. Both join us today to talk more about BPS and show us what you can do with it!Find all the links mentioned here: https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode280Reach out to us for any feedback / questions:* Goran Condric: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gorancondric/* Holger Bruchelt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/holger-bruchelt/ #Microsoft #SAP #Azure #SAPonAzure #Data #Fabric #Datasphere #Copilot #CopilotStudio

In today's Cloud Wars Minute, I explain why deep on-premises expertise is becoming a strategic advantage in the AI-driven cloud economy. Highlights 00:03 — One of the things we're seeing here in early 2026, as so many things change around the tech industry and customer expectations, is that three old timers in the Cloud Wars Top 10 —Microsoft, SAP, and Oracle — for each company, 50% or more of its revenue comes from the cloud. 00:56 — So these are, in some ways, the graybeards, and some people have tried to position them as legacy companies, or ones that reflect the past and not the future. I think all three companies have done a fantastic job of moving into a very different sort of future. This legacy term that some people apply to them was initially meant as a put-down. 01:51 — They've got cloud expertise now, and these three companies, I think, are doing so well in the cloud in part because they understand the traditional landscape that their customers have operated in. Microsoft's total revenue for the quarter ended December 31: $81.3 billion. Of that, $51.5 billion in the cloud — that's 58%.03:05 — So this idea of legacy, which was initially meant as a put-down, an insult, that dismissal of these companies — that's one of the silliest ideas that has come along in a long time. I think this also serves as an occasion for all of us to think about some terms and concepts that had a lot of currency in the past that might not in the future.04:13 — We've got to look with fresh eyes, a fresh mindset about what's new, what's important, what isn't, and not carry forward the ideas or the models, the templates of the past into what's rapidly becoming a very, very different future. I've got a detailed article going into this and offer some more perspectives on this move. Visit Cloud Wars for more.

Realities Remixed, formerly know as Cloud Realities, launches a new season exploring the intersection of people, culture, industry, and tech. Energy transportation is a deeply local business, safely delivering gas and electricity, more and more from renewable sources, directly to the communities it serves. Technology and AI help make that possible by strengthening safety, bringing companies closer to customers, and enabling teams to build the future together. This week, Dave, Esmee, and Rob are joined by John Koerwer, CIO of UGI Corporation, to explore explore why “the business” and tech still struggle to speak the same language, nd what helps close the gap.TLDR00:35 – Introduction01:17 – Hang out: new toys and coffee07:55 – Dig in: the business - tech divide21:07 – Conversation with John Koerwer59:40 – The amazing AI technology in The Sphere's version of The Wizard of OzGuestJohn Koerwer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-koerwer-46102127/HostsDave Chapman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chapmandr/Esmee van de Giessen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/esmeevandegiessen/Rob Kernahan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-kernahan/ProductionMarcel van der Burg: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcel-vd-burg/Dave Chapman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chapmandr/ SoundBen Corbett: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-corbett-3b6a11135/Louis Corbett:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/louis-corbett-087250264/ 'Realities Remixed' is an original podcast from Capgemini

O leopoldense Eduardo cresceu em meio à indústria e à universidade e, depois de fazer curso técnico de eletrônica, acabou se formando em engenharia de produção. De lá, fez estágios na SAP e na Dell, até que surgiu uma oportunidade de estudar inovação na Suíça por apenas três meses, o que foi suficiente para despertar a vontade de galgar mais oportunidades na Europa.De volta ao Brasil, passou pela EY e pela Gerdau, até que decidiu que era hora de buscar novos horizontes. Entre São Paulo e a Europa, escolheu a Europa. Depois, Porto o escolheu.Neste episódio, Eduardo detalha os pormenores da carreira de linhas de defesa de serviços de auditoria, conta mais sobre a sua interessante trajetória, e compartilha os aprendizados na terra onde chove mais do que se imaginaria.Fabrício Carraro, o seu viajante poliglotaEduardo Freitas, Especialista de Controles Internos no Porto, PortugalLinks:LinkedIn do EduardoCarreiras Alura: Explore as carreiras por meio de um caminho estruturado, com prática, profundidade e orientação para você sair do zero e conquistar domínio real em uma habilidade.TechGuide.sh, um mapeamento das principais tecnologias demandadas pelo mercado para diferentes carreiras, com nossas sugestões e opiniões.#7DaysOfCode: Coloque em prática os seus conhecimentos de programação em desafios diários e gratuitos. Acesse https://7daysofcode.io/Ouvintes do podcast Dev Sem Fronteiras têm 10% de desconto em todos os planos da Alura Língua. Basta ir a https://www.aluralingua.com.br/promocao/devsemfronteiras/e começar a aprender inglês e espanhol hoje mesmo! Produção e conteúdo:Alura Língua Cursos online de Idiomas – https://www.aluralingua.com.br/Alura Cursos online de Tecnologia – https://www.alura.com.br/Edição e sonorização: Rede Gigahertz de Podcasts

How real-time security transforms ERP systems in a cloud-driven world, spotting threats instantly, leveraging AI for proactive defense, and closing common blind spots before breaches escalate. Curious about staying ahead of cyber risks?=====Mohammed Moidheen, SAP security architect at Infosys, unpacks why real-time monitoring is vital amid 2,200 daily cyber attacks costing trillions annually. He highlights blind spots like unmonitored access vulnerabilities, ignored audit logs, unsecured APIs, privileged accounts, insider threats, and poor event correlation in S/4HANA Cloud setups. AI evolves detection with predictive intelligence, automated responses, natural language queries, and cross-system pattern spotting, shifting from reactive to proactive security. Real-world cases show systems halting unusual data downloads and insider data exfiltration in minutes. Advice includes aligning with governance, prioritizing crown jewels, setting baselines, training teams, and correlating data. Infosys aids via assessments and foundational builds.Listen now and rethink what ERP can do for your organization!⁠⁠⁠⁠Download Episode Transcript⁠⁠⁠⁠Useful Links: ⁠SAP Cloud ERP⁠Infosys.comFollow Us on Social Media!SAP S/4HANA Cloud ERP: LinkedIn=====Guest: Mohammed Khan Moidheen, SAP Security Architect at Infosys ConsultingMohammed Khan Moidheen is a Senior SAP Security architect with over 12 years of experience securing and operating large scale SAP landscapes across global enterprises. His expertise spans SAP S/4HANA security, ERP platform services, DevSecOps enablement, and designing audit ready security architectures aligned with frameworks such as ISO 27001, NIST, and GDPR.Mohammed is CISSP and CISA certified and I excel at translating complex security requirements into actionable strategies that are practical , strategically aligned and strengthen organisational resilience.Host 1: Richard Howells, SAPRichard Howells has been working in the Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing space for over 30 years. He is responsible for driving the thought leadership and awareness of SAP's ERP, Finance, and Supply Chain solutions and is an active writer, podcaster, and thought leader on the topics of supply chain, Industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability.Follow Richard Howell on ⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠X⁠⁠⁠⁠Host 2: Oyku Ilgar, SAPOyku Ilgar is a marketer and thought leader specializing in SAP's digital supply chain and ERP solutions since 2017. As a marketer, blogger, and podcaster, she creates engaging content that highlights innovative SAP technologies and explores key topics including business trends, AI, Industry 4.0, and sustainability.She holds dual bachelor's degrees in Finance & Accounting and English Translation, along with a master's degree in Business Administration and Foreign Trade, specializing in marketing. With her background in digital transformation, Oyku communicates technology trends and industry insights to help professionals navigate the evolving business landscape.Oyku's ⁠LinkedIn⁠ and ⁠SAP Community⁠=====Key Topics: real-time security, ERP monitoring, cloud threats, SAP S/4HANA, access management, audit logs, AI threat detection, insider threats, privileged accounts, predictive intelligence

This week, we talk about how tariffs, sanctions and geopolitical uncertainty disrupt global supply chains, and how companies can improve visibility, ensure compliance and build resilient, de-risked global trade operationsDownload the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠episode transcript===== In this episode, we unpack how tariffs, sanctions, regulations and geopolitical tensions are reshaping global trade and supply chains. We explore the role of data and technology in managing risk, improving compliance, and designing more resilient global networks for the future ===== Guest: Kevin McCollom, Vice President of Go to Market, ArchLynkKevin McCollom is an experienced enterprise software leader with a long track record in ERP, finance, and global trade. He previously served as Global VP for SAP Cloud ERP and Finance Lines of Business and held strategic leadership roles across SAP's Finance and Risk organization. He now serves as Vice President of Go to Market (GTM) at ArchLynk, helping guide global supply chain and trade solution strategy.Guest: Nilesh Shimpi, Associate Director, ArchLynkNilesh Shimpi is an accomplished solution architect with extensive experience in global trade and supply chain management. He has successfully led numerous projects involving SAP Global Trade Services. Currently, he serves as the Associate Director at ArchLynk, where he plays a key role in guiding the development of global supply chain and trade practices.Guest: Thomas Frenehard, Senior Manager, SAPThomas is Senior Manager within the Governance, Risk, and Compliance Product Marketing team at SAP where he focuses on International Trade Compliance and Enterprise Risk and Compliance topics. He is also a regular contributor on social media (SAP GRC Tuesdays & LinkedIn) and presenter at various SAP and non-SAP conferences on GRC matters.Host 1: Richard HowellsRichard Howells has been working in the Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing space for over 30 years. He is responsible for driving the thought leadership and awareness of SAP's ERP, Finance, and Supply Chain solutions and is an active writer, podcaster, and thought leader on the topics of supply chain, Industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability.===== Show Links:Supply Chain Management: SAP Supply Chain Management SAP Insights: Supply Chain https://archlynk.com/Follow Us on Social Media : Richard Howells: ⁠LinkedIn⁠SAP Digital Supply Chain: ⁠LinkedIn⁠ Please give us a like, share, and subscribe to stay up-to-date on future episodes!  ===== Chapters: 00:00:00: Intro00:01:00: Guest introduction00:02:19: How tariffs, sanctions, and regulations are reshaping supply chains00:08:40  What risks are companies facing from an operational perspective? 00:12:27: How are companies turning these challenges into opportunities?00:15:53: Role of technology and data in managing global trade00:18:26: What should leaders prioritize to stay ahead of the global trade risks 00:20:39 What's the future of the supply chain?00:22:24: Outro

Send a textThis 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-based AI agents for Fusion Cloud, and SAP's extension of its business suite all signal that hyperscalers are embedding AI directly into day-to-day workflows rather than positioning it as a standalone add-on. In parallel, Sprinklr's new AI capabilities and Upstream Works' enhanced agent desktop extend this trend into customer experience and contact center operations, while Kantata's new AI platform targets the specialized needs of professional services firms. NetSuite's “Next” roadmap reinforces Oracle's mid-market modernization strategy, and ScienceLogic's reimagined applications highlight how observability and IT operations are also being reshaped by AI-first design principles. Rounding out the picture, Cleo's invoice payment and financing solution underscores growing pressure to modernize B2B financial operations, while Sage's acquisition of Criterion signals continued consolidation in the HCM space—together illustrating a market that is rapidly standardizing on AI-driven interaction layers even as vendors compete to redefine their category boundaries.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=P-5FOS9QamYQuestions for Panelists?

In der heutigen Folge sprechen die Finanzjournalisten Anja Ettel und Holger Zschäpitz über Enttäuschung bei Novo Nordisk, Gileads Milliarden-Move und Übernahmefantasie bei Paypal. Außerdem geht es um Mongo DB, Zscaler, Datadog Doordash, American Express, Mastercard, Visa, Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly, Gilead, Arcellx, Domino's, IBM, PayPal, BMW, VW, Mercedes-Benz, SAP, Infineon, Cloudflare, Crowdstrike, Zscaler, KKR, Blackstone, Apollo, GE Vernova, L&G Gold Mining ETF (WKN: A12CCL), L&G DAX Daily 2x Short (WKN: A0X8ZS), Amundi Core MSCI USA (WKN: ETF154), iShares MSCI USA (WKN: A0YEDU), SPDR S&P 500 (WKN: A3EUC1), UBS Core S&P 500 (WKN: A41DL0), SPDR S&P 500 Leaders (WKN: A2PSPE), iShares Core MSCI World (WKN: A0RPWH), Ark Innovation ETF (A14Y8H) und SPDR MSCI All Country World IMI (WKN: A1JJTD). Wir freuen uns an Feedback über aaa@welt.de. Noch mehr "Alles auf Aktien" findet Ihr bei WELTplus und Apple Podcasts – inklusive aller Artikel der Hosts und AAA-Newsletter. Hier bei WELT: https://www.welt.de/podcasts/alles-auf-aktien/plus247399208/Boersen-Podcast-AAA-Bonus-Folgen-Jede-Woche-noch-mehr-Antworten-auf-Eure-Boersen-Fragen.html. Der Börsen-Podcast Disclaimer: Die im Podcast besprochenen Aktien und Fonds stellen keine spezifischen Kauf- oder Anlage-Empfehlungen dar. Die Moderatoren und der Verlag haften nicht für etwaige Verluste, die aufgrund der Umsetzung der Gedanken oder Ideen entstehen. Hörtipps: Für alle, die noch mehr wissen wollen: Holger Zschäpitz können Sie jede Woche im Finanz- und Wirtschaftspodcast "Deffner&Zschäpitz" hören. +++ Werbung +++ Du möchtest mehr über unsere Werbepartner erfahren? Hier findest du alle Infos & Rabatte! https://linktr.ee/alles_auf_aktien Impressum: https://www.welt.de/services/article7893735/Impressum.html Datenschutz: https://www.welt.de/services/article157550705/Datenschutzerklaerung-WELT-DIGITAL.html

A short, no-nonsense breakdown of the key decisions, risks, and realities shaping mid‑market SAP transformation. Mid-market companies need straight answers to navigate cloud timing, S/4HANA moves, and budget-friendly SAP modernization. Success comes from clear requirements, trusted partners, and early risk mitigation, supported by transparent execution tools. Ultimately, overcoming the fear of failure is what enables confident, value-driven transformation. Evaluate your own SAP roadmap and identify where you need straight answers and guidance to move forward with confidence.

Ihr kriegt aktuell 25 € vom Scalable-ETF, wenn ihr ein neues Konto eröffnet und nutzt. Dazu unterstützt ihr auch noch diesen Podcast. Mehr Infos gibt's hier. Oberstes Gericht kippt Trumps Zölle. Er macht mit 15% weiter. NVIDIA will in OpenAI investieren. OpenAI verdreifacht Umsatz, verfehlt Margenziel. Moncler zieht Luxusbranche hoch. Comfort Systems & Corning boomen mit Rechenzentren. Okta, CrowdStrike & Zscaler crashen. Software-Sektor hat den schlechtesten Jahresstart seit der Finanzkrise. Schuld ist KI. Aber sind SAP, Salesforce & Co. wirklich bedroht? Wir schauen auf Burggräben, Bewertungen und wo in der KI-Welt das Geld am Ende landet. Diesen Podcast vom 23.02.2026, 3:00 Uhr stellt dir die Podstars GmbH (Noah Leidinger) zur Verfügung.

Send a textSelling complex technology isn't about the lone genius with a quota. It's about orchestrating people, timing and trust across a messy, customer-led journey.We sit down with Cliff Keast - former sales leader at VMware, SAP and Business Objects, now a coach to revenue teams - to unpack how enterprise deals really get done when 20, 30 or even over 100 people touch a single opportunity.Separating Average Performers from Reliable ClosersCliff shares the identity shift that separates average performers from reliable closers: stop trying to be the hero and become the integrator of value. Your credibility in the C‑suite comes from your ability to marshal your company's full expertise - pre-sales, legal, services, customer success, partners - exactly when it matters. Focusing on Soft Skills That Make the Hard Things WorkWe get practical on the soft skills that make the hard things work: establish psychological safety, show trust first, share credit publicly, handle issues privately, and keep communication ruthlessly clear. A simple discipline, write actions clearly and start every meeting by reviewing them, turns vague updates into peer accountability without the drama.Facing the Reality of Cross-Functional FrictionWe also confront the reality of cross-functional friction. As organisations scale, process and function disaggregate. Quoting systems stall over irrelevant fields, legal arrives too late, and rules designed for efficiency create bottlenecks. Finding the Selling LineCliff draws the line between customer-centric rule pushing and selfish rule breaking, and explains how top sellers earn an “unfair share” of scarce resources by qualifying well, setting purpose, and making it easy for specialists to win. Shaping the PathFor sales leaders, the mandate is to shape the path: clear the runway with adjacent functions, coach orchestration skills, and measure the operating rhythm that keeps cross-functional teams moving.Who This Is ForIf you're navigating enterprise sales, team performance or revenue leadership, you'll leave with a sharper playbook for influence without authority, smarter stakeholder timing, and a renewed respect for the human side of selling. Subscribe, share with a teammate who needs a better deal rhythm, and drop a review to tell us which function is hardest to align in your world.We would love you to follow us on LinkedIn! https://www.linkedin.com/company/amplified-group/

Klarna "AI-first", le High-Tech perce sur TikTok Shop et le séisme du SaaS.Dans ce 258ème épisode, Laetitia et Adrien décryptent la transformation radicale de la rentabilité : quand l'IA ne se contente plus d'aider, mais remplace et vend. Entre le pari fou de Klarna pour son introduction en Bourse et l'explosion des paniers moyens sur TikTok Shop, le retail bascule dans une nouvelle ère d'efficacité.Au programme de cet épisode :

John 15:1-8,“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3 Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. 5 I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not abide in me, he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. 7 If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 8 By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. 9 As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. 10 If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. 11 These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. 17 These things I command you, so that you will love one another.This morning we come to the seventh of Jesus's seven great “I am” statements in the Gospel of John. Jesus is the bread of life; he is the light of the world, the door, the good shepherd, the resurrection and the life; he is the way, the truth, and the life. And finally, in John 15, he is the vine.The vine. It's such a memorable and concrete image that it might be hard for some of us to hear it afresh. One of the challenges for us is how this old English word “abide,” which is not a word we use today. Anyone use “abide” on the street this week? It's an old word, but it's easy enough. It just means “remain” or “stay.” “Abide in me” equals “Stay in me.”Now, that command to stay or abide in Jesus doesn't come until verse 4. Verses 1-3 set the table with vital background information before Jesus turns to us, the branches, in verse 4, and says, Stay in me.So, we branches have something to do here, to engage in. In this picture of Christ's provision, you do get to play a part. You are not decisive, but you are involved: you stay, remain, continue. Or, said negatively: don't bail, don't fall away; don't coast and drift from Jesus — especially when conflict comes, when interruptions come, when agitation comes, disorientation, confusion, insults, opposition, slander.The call to abide, to stay, assumes a context of conflict, with forces pulling on the branches, trying to disconnect them from the vine.It's easy to pull these verses out of context and imagine a nice, peaceful, sunshiny day in the vineyard. But John 15 is right at the beginning of the storm. Remember this is the longest Thursday night, the night before Jesus dies. The storm is bearing down on them, and Jesus is getting his men ready.He said in 14:27:“Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.”And he said in 14:31, “Rise, let us go from here.”But he keeps talking. I imagine the disciples rising to their feet, but before they go, Jesus wants to prepare them a little bit more, with a battlefield speech: I am the vine; you are branches. That's what you need for this storm. Stay in me.Then in 16:1 Jesus will say why he said what he did in chapter 15:“I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away.”So, abiding is not about cushy, idyllic days. It's about staying in Jesus when forces are trying to pull you away from him. Which relates to another context for this passage: our context. Jonathan called it our “Troubled Heart Situation”: the jarring interruption of our worship a few weeks ago, with its insults, and since then, the questions and many misunderstandings we've endured from those who don't know the truth and may show little interest in it.So, originally, the Vine and branches was to help Jesus's disciples, against opposition, stay with him. And now God has given Cities Church the Vine and branches this morning to help us, against opposition, stay with him.Now, when we see ourselves in this passage, it is a very simple, modest role. Jesus uses the word six times: branch. That's what you are, what I am: we are branches. Humble branches, totally dependent, powerless and unimpressive on our own — and yet branches on a good vine can be very happy, nourished, well supplied, empowered, and fruitful.So, we make our way this morning with four truths about us as humble, happy branches who need to stay in Jesus in the storm.1. We branches are distinct from the Vine. (vv. 1–2)We are just branches. We are not the Vine. Jesus is the Vine. We are distinct from the Vine and we do not become the Vine, and yet, amazingly, we are joined to the Vine. And not just Vine, but in verse 1, Jesus says “true vine.” “I am the true vine.”We've seen Jesus use the word true throughout John to talk about being the real or genuine or ultimate. He is the true light, the true bread, true food, true drink. And now true vine.True vine implies that another vine has come before, and now Jesus comes as the true one, the ultimate one. What was the previous vine? Israel. Psalm 80:8–9 is one place among many:You brought a vine out of Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it. You cleared the ground for it; it took deep root and filled the land. In Psalm 80, and in Isaiah and Jeremiah and Ezekiel, Israel is God's vine, and tragically, in the prophets, God's vine that did not bear the fruit it should have.So, this is no small claim when Jesus says he's the true vine. He's saying that God's first-covenant people, the first vine, the old vine, were not the final vine. And now Jesus comes as the new vine, the true vine, the ultimate vine. Which means he's the new and final place of connection to God, not Israel.Previously, to be God's people, you had to be born into or specially brought into God's ethnic people. But now, to be God's people, you need only to be joined to Jesus.This joining to Jesus is what we call “union with Christ.” Through faith, by the connecting power of the Holy Spirit, men and women from every nation, whatever ethnicity, are joined to Jesus and, in union with him, experience all the benefits he provides: righteousness, redemption, forgiveness, holiness, sonship, and true family, and best of all, at the center of it all, the surpassing joy of knowing Jesus.And a union works in two directions. A husband and all he has becomes his wife's, and the wife and all she has becomes her husband's. So, verse 4 says, “Abide in me, and I in you.” Verse 5: “Whoever abides in me and I in him.” This is mutual indwelling. We branches are not only in the Vine by faith, but he is in us: “I in you.” As we saw last week, the Holy Spirit, who dwells in us, is the presence of Jesus in our lives and ministers to us the realness of Jesus. (And we'll see in a minute how this gets more tangible.)So, we branches are not the Vine; we are distinct from the Vine. And yet, we are joined to the Vine, united to the Vine. Which raises a question in verse 2:Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he [the Father, the vinedresser; literally, the Farmer, geōrgós] takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.Get this, it's not just vine and branches. There's a Farmer in the vineyard: the Father. He walks the vineyard. He helps the Vine and the branches by pruning the good ones and removing the fruitless ones. We'll come back to the Father and his pruning, but here's the question: What do we make of these branches that are “in the Vine” but the Father “takes away”? Verse 6 continues the thought:If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away [cast out] like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.Can someone be truly in the vine and taken away? The answer is the metaphor is not meant to go that far. Jesus has made plain again and again in this Gospel that no one can take his true sheep from him (6:37; 10:29; 17:12; 18:9), and John has made it clear that there are some who seem to believe, so-called followers of Jesus, even Judas among his twelve (2:23-24; 6:60, 6; 8:30ff; 12:42-43). The reality is not that they were once truly in and then fell away, but that their falling away shows they were never truly in the Vine. Those who are truly in Jesus persevere; they abide, and bear fruit; and they are the ones the Father prunes that they might bear more fruit (like the Lord's discipline in Hebrews 12:4–11).The point is that true Christians will bear fruit, not that a person could be genuinely united to Jesus and lose their connection.Jesus is the Vine, and we are the branches, distinct from him, and united to him by faith and the Holy Spirit. 2. We branches delight in the sap. (vv. 3, 7a)I assume we don't have many viticulturists in the room. I should probably make it clear that life-giving sap flows in one direction: from the Vine to the branches. Sap, containing water and nutrients and sugar flows from the vine to the branches to nourish the branches that they might grow and develop fruit.And if you ask, Okay, that's great in theory about the vine, but how does this relate to our union with Jesus? Verse 7 gives us the critical answer for how this union becomes tangible:“If you abide in me, and my words abide in you…”Did you hear it? What's staying in us when we stay in Jesus? His words. And this is not the only mention of his words in this passage. Jump up to verse 3:Already you are clean [katharoí, same root as “prune” in v. 2] because of the word that I have spoken to you.So, before telling them to abide, Jesus says, already (one of the most important words in this passage) you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. What's the word he spoke to them? In chapter 13, Jesus says something very similar. He's washing the disciples' feet, and Peter objects. Jesus says, “If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.” So, Peter says, “Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!” Jesus responds, “The one who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet, but is completely clean. And you are clean [same as 15:3], but not every one of you” (referring to Judas).So, here's the significance of this first word in 15:3: it's his word of full acceptance, a declaration of right standing (what Paul will call justification by faith). Before you're purified, you are pure. Before you're cleaned, you are clean. You are in Jesus by faith, united to him, before you abide the storms. Union first, then abiding. Not abide to secure union; abide because you're united. So, verse 3, refers to a word Jesus speaks that effects full acceptance with God, in union with him, that is already true before we abide.Then, back to verse 7, where we have his word for fresh abiding, or the word for daily strength. This is the ongoing, sustaining flow of grace that comes to us in union with Jesus through his word. This is the word for sanctification or for perseverance. Jesus's word, with his Spirit, is the sweet sap that flows to our souls and gives them life and delight. (Do you long for and enjoy his word like a branch enjoys the sweet sap of the vine? Do you, like a newborn infant, long for the pure spiritual milk of his word? 1 Peter 2:2.)Vital to abiding in Jesus is savoring the sap of his word, having his word stay in you, getting his words lodged into our hearts. How do you do that? Not just reading Scripture but meditating on it. Chewing on it. Savoring the sap, slowing down to savor the sap of his word, and ponder it, and lodge it in your heart, that Jesus himself might abide in you by his Spirit.Healthy branches stay in the vine through regular, particular moments of intentional, unhurried abiding, staying in Christ's word, not reading quick, praying quick, checking the box, and onto the rest of your day; but lingering unhurried in the Vine through his word. Put your phone away. Carve out enough time to lose track of time, to stay, without rushing, abide, in the presence of God in the Vine, savoring his words as energizing, life-giving sap for your soul.So, branches delight in the sap, that is, the word.3. We branches depend on the Vine. (vv. 4, 5, 7b)Not only does the sap of the word flow from the Vine to the branches, but there is a particular orientation of the branches back toward the Vine: utter dependance. There is in humble, happy branches a glad admission of powerlessness, and a glad response to the word called prayer, asking for more of the Vine and for his help in doing what he calls us to do: be fruitful.The powerlessness is in verses 4–5:As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. . . . [A]part from me you can do nothing.So, such powerless dependent branches, delighting in the word of the Vine, respond with their own words called prayer. The last part of verse 7:“ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.”We saw another of these “ask whatever” verses in chapter 14, verses 13–14:“Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.”We'll see another next week in 15:16:“…whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you…”Now verse 7:“…ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.”I don't think Jesus is giving us a blank prayer check for natural desires, and clearly we all know from our experience that we don't have that. The key in verse 7 is to remember the context. How different it is when you're in a trial and hanging on his words! His words in us feed our desires and prayers that echo his own heart. And “in my name” qualifies it. We have a banner in Jesus's name. And we have a backstop in the Spirit interceding for us. Romans 8:26–27: …the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us [in our] groanings too deep for words. 27 And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.Perhaps the main thing to take away is how much the Vine wants his branches to pray. He wants to hear from us — to live on the sap of his word, lodge his words and his will in our souls, and then, in his name, speak back to him. Pray. He wants there to be relationship, communion in the union.And a holy heart, shaped by God's word, is unleashed to ask, and ask, and ask, and know that when we don't know how to pray, and pray for the wrong things, we have the Spirit of Jesus in us interceding for us.So, the branches are distinct from the Vine, and we delight in his words, and we depend on him in prayer.4. We branches develop fruit, and so draw attention to the Farmer. (v. 8)Go to verse 8:“By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.”I say develop fruit because fruit doesn't happen in a moment. It grows organically, bit by bit over time. If you ask, what does “bearing fruit” mean for us, it includes all the good that flows from our union and communion with Christ: love for one another and joy and obeying commands and being his means to others coming to abide in him (more on that next week).None of which branches should hear as a burden! Bearing fruit is a joy for branches. That's what they were made for. Branches bearing fruit are branches fully alive and happy.And if you ask how you might evaluate your fruit, I would say this: don't evaluate your fruitfulness relative to how well you could someday love or obey or be effective in evangelism, or comparing yourself to the fruit of others. But ask yourself about you: your past, your former desires, your old self — how is the life-giving sap flowing into your soul and developing the fruit of love for others in your life? Perhaps you've heard the famous quote from John Newton:I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still I am not what I once used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am.And verse 8 is clear that developing fruit does not make you to be Jesus's disciples but proves you are his disciples. Our fruit shows that we had already become his. Which makes the Vine look good. And the vine producing fruit, through his branches, makes his Father, the Farmer, look good.Pruning Cities ChurchSo, we come back to verse 2 and that there's a Farmer. John 15 isn't just Vine and branches. We have a Farmer, the Father, who walks the vineyard. And he serves the vine and all the fruitful branches by removing the unfruitful ones. And he prunes the fruit-producing branches so that they can produce more fruit.So, I want to end with this question: Was the Farmer away on January 18? He was not away. John 15 clues us in on what he was doing: he was pruning Cities Church for our good, that we might bear more fruit. I don't think “more fruit” means headlines or relates to the opinions of people far away. But in the Vine, God has given us fruit together in these first eleven years in worshiping Jesus together, and loving one another, and seeking the good of these Cities. And “more fruit,” I would assume, would relate to these same three avenues.Brothers and sisters, the Farmer wasn't caught off guard on January 18. And he hasn't been away since. He is ever vigilant over his Vine and his branches. He is ever gardening. He is pruning with perfect cuts. And I can already see he's done and is doing some amazing work, to take so many individuals from some fruit to more fruit, and to work on us a people to prune us from fruit to more fruit. Most of you have leaned in with an engaged hope that has been remarkable. But if the last month has distanced you from the Vine, if you sense yourself withering, with less of his word, less prayer, less fellowship, make this your day of turning. The main thing the Farmer is doing in this suffering is causing his branches to go deeper into the Vine. Don't drift from the Vine. Stay. Remain. Abide.Delight in his sap. Lodge his sweet, life-giving words into your mind and heart. Depend on his help. Having filled yourself with his words, pray in your own words. And ask him for whatever you need in his call to love each other and these Cities.Fellowship of BranchesWe said at the beginning, we are not the Vine. And now: you are not the only branch. Jesus says branches. You are never a lone branch in Christ, and never alone at this Table.We call this Communion for two reasons: communion with the Vine and communion with the other branches that are in him. So, take a morsel of nourishment, and a thimble of sap, and let's enjoy the Vine together.

This week on ASUG Talks, we talk with PepsiCo, as the organization is set to begin leveraging SAP Business Data Cloud. Prasad Suram and Venkat Nalabothu, two of the organization's IT leaders who are involved with the implementation, join the podcast to discuss their learnings, advice, and insights. Key InsightsThe importance of SAP BDC to PepsiCo's IT goals How the organization is working to leverage the solution alongside its large SAP HANA database instance Advice for enterprises about to begin leveraging SAP BDCRelated InsightsRead ASUG's conversation with Hagen Heubach, CMO of Supply Chain at SAP, about how SAP solutions can help enterprises overcome disruptions like tariffsRegister for an ASUG Community Conversation on Feb. 24 featuring customer perspectives on ERP transformation

In episode 279 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about SAP Business Data Cloud, Datasphere and Microsoft Fabric.With all the excitment about the SAP Business Data Cloud, I recently searched for the Microsoft Fabric and SAP integraton and found several older blog posts from Ulrich Christ, with 90.000, 115.000 and almost 200.000 views. So there is definetly an interest in integrating SAP data with Fabric. Because of that I am really happy to have Ulrich with us again to provide us with an update on the latest SAP integration with SAP Business Data Cloud, Datasphere and Fabric. Want to register for the planned preview for SAP Business Data Cloud Connect for Microsoft Fabric: http://aka.ms/SAPinFabricPrprFind all the links mentioned here: https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode279Reach out to us for any feedback / questions:* Goran Condric: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gorancondric/* Holger Bruchelt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/holger-bruchelt/ #Microsoft #SAP #Azure #SAPonAzure #Fabric #Datasphere #OneLake- 0:00 Intro- 1:45 SAP Data in Mircosoft Fabric- 2:00 Unifying data in OneLake - Shortcuts- 3:30 Cross-cloud mirroring- 5:00 Petabyte scale data movement- 6:25 SAP Connectivity Options- 10:25 SAP Business Data Cloud Connect for Microsoft Fabric- 12:25 What is SAP Business Data Cloud?- 16:00 SAP BDC Connect for Fabric - Bi-directional zero-copy sharing- 18:30 Mirroring for SAP via SAP Datasphere- 21:15 High-level Architecture - Mirroring for SAP- 22:50 Demo - Starting with Datasphere- 24:50 Demo - Looking at the Fabric side- 32:25 Business Process Solutions (Enterprise Insights)- 33:00 Introducing Business Process Solutions- 33:35 BPS Architecture overview and scope

Industrial Talk is onsite at SMRP 2025 and talking to Candi Robison and Daniel Rimmasch with IFS/Ultimo about "A flexible EAM cloud platform for today's industry". Scott Mackenzie from Industrial Talk Podcast interviews Candi Robinson and Daniel Rimmasch from IFS Ultimo at the SMRP event in Fort Worth, Texas. Candi, with 25 years in EAM, discusses IFS Ultimo's cloud-based EAM solution, which integrates CMMS and EAM functionalities, addressing labor shortages, workforce retirement, and sustainability. Daniel highlights Ultimo's mobile capabilities, AI integration, and its ability to prevent data silos. They emphasize the importance of user-friendly interfaces, effective data capture, and training to ensure efficient maintenance and asset management. Ultimo's deployment can be as quick as three months, catering to various industries. Outline Introduction and Overview of Industrial Talk Podcast Scott Mackenzie introduces himself and the Industrial Talk podcast, emphasizing its focus on industrial insights and innovations.Scott highlights the importance of asset management, maintenance, and reliability, encouraging listeners to attend the SMRP event in Fort Worth, Texas.Scott introduces the guests, Candi Robinson and Daniel Rimmasch from IFS Ultimo, and expresses excitement about discussing their company's solutions. Background of Candi Robinson and Daniel Rimmasch Candi Robison shares her 25-year experience in EAM, starting with MRO software and later working at IBM before joining IFS Ultimo.Candi discusses the acquisition of Ultimo by IFS and the significant growth the company has experienced.Daniel Rimmasch introduces himself as a business development representative with a decade of experience in the industry, emphasizing his passion for helping people and staying updated with industry trends. Understanding IFS Ultimo's Solution Candi explains that IFS Ultimo is an Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) solution that bridges the gap between CMMS and EAM.She discusses the changing market landscape, with EAM leaders like Maximo and SAP evolving to asset lifecycle management.Candi highlights the importance of addressing labor shortages, workforce retirement, and sustainability through EAM solutions. The Role of Nano and Kevin Price Candi mentions Nano as a partner that provides devices for energy-centered maintenance, connecting to IFS Ultimo for actionable visibility.Scott and Candi discuss the role of Kevin Price, who is the head of EAM at IFS, and how Ultimo fits into the IFS cloud offering.Candi clarifies that Ultimo is a separate company from IFS, focusing on maintenance-centered conversations. Differentiation of IFS Ultimo Daniel explains that Ultimo's approach includes health and safety operations, making it a one-stop shop for asset management.He emphasizes the importance of preventing data silos and providing a singular view for all departments.Daniel highlights that Ultimo is a cloud-based software, offering continuous support and additional features as clients progress in their journey. Deployment and Implementation of Ultimo Daniel explains that Ultimo's typical deployment can be as short as three months, depending on the client's needs.Candi adds that Ultimo is multilingual, multi-currency, and multi-time zone, and can be deployed globally without a system integrator.Scott and Candi discuss the importance of training and change management, starting with understanding the customer's process. Future Trends and AI Integration...

In this episode, Jeff Mains sits down with Barbara Wittmann, a 25-year veteran of IT transformation who has pioneered the concept of "human infrastructure" - the invisible framework of trust, clarity, and collaboration that determines whether technology projects succeed or fail. Barbara shares her journey from mountain biking and logistics to SAP consulting, and how she discovered that most technology failures are actually people problems in disguise. She introduces her four-pillar model for preventing costly project detours, explains why people development should be a permanent IT budget line item (not a one-time HR initiative), and reveals how AI is raising the bar on what humans need to do best. The conversation explores psychological safety, shared mental models, limiting beliefs, and why wisdom drawn from indigenous cultures can help modern SaaS leaders build more resilient organizations.Key Takeaways[4:56] - Technology problems are almost always people problems - software can't fix misalignment, confusion, or teams that weren't brought along for the change[8:35] - Human infrastructure is the framework where departments work seamlessly together, end-to-end processes are understood, and people have artifacts to help them navigate complexity[10:14] - Shared mental models are critical - creating a high-level map of systems, data elements, and functions helps everyone align on what changes will impact[12:20] - People development should be an OPEX line item in IT budgets, not a one-time HR initiative - we upgrade servers continuously but treat people upgrades as "one and done"[16:15] - Empowering the middle layer of organizations can save about 20% on consulting spend because in-house people already have the knowledge[20:20] - The four-pillar model: Understand the problem → Condense it → Create a solution → Get people excited about it (most teams skip understanding the problem)[22:32] - The dual ecosystem approach: Train people in a cross-industry environment where they can practice without fear, then bring learnings back to their organization[25:53] - Once 25% of your middle layer adopts a new mindset, you see behavioral shifts ripple throughout the entire organization[29:00] - Indigenous wisdom teaches that everything is connected (ecosystems) and everything works in cycles - nature isn't "on" all the time[34:27] - Limiting beliefs often sound like "I can't do that, I've never done that before" - when your instant reaction is "no," pause and get curious about why[37:17] - AI should be seen as a coworker, not a competitor - the key is training our uniquely human aspects: emotional intelligence, sense-making, and asking better questions[39:38] - First step to building human infrastructure: Create psychological safety where people can voice concerns, and reconnect with your company's core mission and valuesTweetable Quotes"Most teams learn the hard way: Technology rarely fails because of the tools. It fails because the people aren't aligned to use them." - Barbara Wittmann"If your company is not really talking to each other as it is, a software is not gonna fix the issue." - Barbara Wittmann"We are upgrading servers all along, but with people upgrades, we look at it in a very old fashioned way. It's a one and done kind of thing." - Barbara Wittmann"AI models are evolving at the speed of light, and we are not upgrading our humans. What can go wrong?"- Barbara Wittmann"Your execution layer cannot delegate complexity anymore because they need to deal with it inevitably."...

Realities Remixed, formerly know as Cloud Realities, launches a new season exploring the intersection of people, culture, technology, and society. Hosts Dave Chapman, Esmee van de Giessen, and Rob Kernahan unpack 2026's defining trends, from AI and sovereignty to adaptability and automation, offering fresh insight, candid reflections, and forward‑looking conversations shaping the year ahead. TLDR00:20 – Introduction of Realities Remixed02:30 – Why the show evolved?04:50 – Dig in with the team: Predictions for 202606:40 – Macro trends13:00 – Sovereignty 17:40 – Agentic AI22:17 – Human–AI interaction26:06 – Cloud trends30:42 – AI scaling, domain‑specific models35:03 – Adoption lag39:34 – Physical AI43:47 – Quantum computing48:21 – Hardware acceleration50:30 – Cybersecurity52:38 – Season outlook HostsDave Chapman:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/chapmandr/Esmee van de Giessen:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/esmeevandegiessen/Rob Kernahan:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-kernahan/ProductionMarcel van der Burg:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcel-vd-burg/Dave Chapman:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/chapmandr/ SoundBen Corbett:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-corbett-3b6a11135/Louis Corbett:   https://www.linkedin.com/in/louis-corbett-087250264/ 'Realities Remixed' is an original podcast from Capgemini

In der heutigen Folge sprechen die Finanzjournalisten Lea Oetjen und Nando Sommerfeldt über einen Dämpfer für Qiagen, die 200-Milliarden-Dollar-Investitionen von Micron und ein weiteres Kapitel im Kampf um Warner Bros Discovery. Außerdem geht es um Vonovia, Aroundtown, Nvidia, Meta, Paramount Skydance, Netflix, Norwegian Cruise Line, Danaher, Masimo, Südzucker, Palo Alto Networks, Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Swisscom, AT&T, SAP, Alphabet, Amazon, Vodafone, Nokia, Ericsson und iShares STOXX Europe 600 Telecommunications (WKN: A0H08R). Wir freuen uns an Feedback über aaa@welt.de. Noch mehr "Alles auf Aktien" findet Ihr bei WELTplus und Apple Podcasts – inklusive aller Artikel der Hosts und AAA-Newsletter. Hier bei WELT: https://www.welt.de/podcasts/alles-auf-aktien/plus247399208/Boersen-Podcast-AAA-Bonus-Folgen-Jede-Woche-noch-mehr-Antworten-auf-Eure-Boersen-Fragen.html. Der Börsen-Podcast Disclaimer: Die im Podcast besprochenen Aktien und Fonds stellen keine spezifischen Kauf- oder Anlage-Empfehlungen dar. Die Moderatoren und der Verlag haften nicht für etwaige Verluste, die aufgrund der Umsetzung der Gedanken oder Ideen entstehen. Hörtipps: Für alle, die noch mehr wissen wollen: Holger Zschäpitz können Sie jede Woche im Finanz- und Wirtschaftspodcast "Deffner&Zschäpitz" hören. +++ Werbung +++ Du möchtest mehr über unsere Werbepartner erfahren? Hier findest du alle Infos & Rabatte! https://linktr.ee/alles_auf_aktien Impressum: https://www.welt.de/services/article7893735/Impressum.html Datenschutz: https://www.welt.de/services/article157550705/Datenschutzerklaerung-WELT-DIGITAL.html

Die Welt wird neu sortiert! Ein viraler LinkedIn-Post des KI-Unternehmers Matt Shumer schlägt Alarm: Stehen wir vor einem massiven Umbruch in der Wissensarbeit und sind die Menschen weitgehend unvorbereitet, ähnlich dem Beginn der Corona-Pandemie? Die beiden Wirtschaftsjournalisten Dietmar Deffner und Holger Zschäpitz tauchen tief in das Thema KI-Disruption ein. Sie debattieren, ob wir uns wirklich Sorgen um unsere Jobs machen müssen, oder ob das Ganze doch nur eine clevere Verkaufsmasche für KI-Premium-Abos ist. Erfahrt, warum Zschäpitz glaubt, dass eine Portion "Paranoia" an der Börse gerade nicht schadet, und warum Deffner trotzdem optimistisch ins "Jahr des Feuerpferdes" blickt. Außerdem zeigen die beiden, warum unter der Oberfläche eine Brutalo-Rotation läuft, wieso ein Welt-ETF das Chaos erstaunlich gut wegsteckt – und warum Dividenden-Aristokraten gerade wie eine Trutzburg wirken, während Big Tech vom „Asset-light“-Liebling zum „Capital-heavy“-Problemfall wird. Und am Ende gibt es die Wette, die alles auf den Punkt bringt: SAP gegen Nvidia. DEFFNER & ZSCHÄPITZ sind wie das wahre Leben. Wie Optimist und Pessimist. Im wöchentlichen WELT-Podcast diskutieren und streiten die Journalisten Dietmar Deffner und Holger Zschäpitz über die wichtigen Wirtschaftsthemen des Alltags. Schreiben Sie uns an: wirtschaftspodcast@welt.de Impressum: https://www.welt.de/services/article7893735/Impressum.html Datenschutzerklärung: https://www.welt.de/services/article157550705/Datenschutzerklaerung-WELT-DIGITAL.html

In today's Cloud Wars Minute, I analyze the leadership shift at Workday and what it means in the age of agentic AI.Highlights00:00 — I want to talk about a change at the top of Workday. And I want to point out somebody who's been a real superstar in this business and that's Workday co-founder, former co-CEO, former CEO, chairman, executive chairman, resigned as CEO, now back in as CEO, Aneel Bhusri.01:13 — He was going to be the person that ran all the business, the operations. And Aneel said, "I can go back to what I truly love," which is developing products and strategy. Carl Eschenbach left about a week ago. The board asked Bhusri to step back in as CEO, and he's done that. So there's no question that Aneel Bhusri's first love is products and strategy.02:24 — He said, “Now, with Carl Eschenbach coming in a couple of years ago, now I can go do this stuff I really love around products and strategy.” It is this thing about never being trained to do it. He's on the board of directors at General Motors, a highly accomplished executive in a lot of ways. Aneel certainly doesn't need the money.03:13 — How does a company like Workday or Oracle or SAP or Salesforce balance those two things, the enterprise applications that brought them here, and the agentic AI that has to take them forward? Workday, several months ago, announced Workday ERP. From the outside, you've got SAP and Oracle always aggressively trying to go after Workday customers.03:59 — I want to mention about Aneel, the way he manages. He said, “I've sort of become”— this is when machine learning, ML, was really becoming hot — “I became the Pied Piper of Workday. I was just going around to all the different developers and engineering teams and just asking developers and engineering teams over and over and over again, what are you doing with ML?"04:56 — And now they've got two great president-level executives at Workday. Rob Enslin and Gerrit Kazmaier. I think it's very likely that about a year from now, Workday will announce that Bhusri is going to become co-CEO and elevate one of those two, Enslin or Kazmaier, to the co-CEO role with him. Visit Cloud Wars for more.

What does it take to migrate the heart of a nation's banking system to the cloud?In this AWS Executive Insights fireside chat, Ben Cabanas sits down with Simon Davies, GM of Core Banking at Commonwealth Bank of Australia, to unpack one of the most mission-critical cloud transformations in financial services. With nearly 40% of Australia's liquidity flowing through CBA's core platform, the stakes were enormous.Simon shares how CBA migrated the world's largest SAP core banking deployment to AWS while improving reliability, reducing infrastructure costs by 30%, and enabling real-time customer experiences. Beyond the technical achievement, he reveals how transparency, cultural alignment, and a rallying cry of “believe” helped mobilize thousands across the organization to deliver change at national scale.

The Deal You Never Knew Existed. Subscribe to our Newsletter: https://theultimatepartner.com/ebook-subscribe/ Check Out UPX: https://theultimatepartner.com/experience/ In this deep dive, Jay McBain reveals the harsh reality of the “28 Moments” in a modern B2B buying journey, using a multi-million dollar SAP deal at AstraZeneca as a wake-up call for vendors. He explains how traditional marketing leads are failing in the “decade of the ecosystem,” where trusted partners like NTT and SoftwareOne are winning deals in “light blue” partnership moments months before a customer ever downloads an ebook. If you aren’t visible in the seven-layer stack or collaborating with the partners who hold the customer’s trust, you aren’t just losing the deal—you're losing the entire market. https://youtu.be/NO-P6X2dTAo?si=8e_sVesqvwaC0M-E Key Takeaways Most vendors lose major deals without ever knowing a transaction was even taking place. The average considered purchase involves 28 distinct moments of research and influence before a sale. Trusted partners often close the deal in the “middle moments” months before the money is actually spent. Traditional marketing leads (MQLs) are often too “flimsy” compared to deep partner-led relationships. Winning in the ecosystem requires being part of a “seven-layer stack” of integrated technology and services. Data-sharing platforms like Crossbeam and Workspan are now essential to seeing the “invisible” pipeline. If you're ready to lead through change, elevate your business, and achieve extraordinary outcomes through the power of partnership—this is your community. At Ultimate Partner® we want leaders like you to join us in the Ultimate Partner Experience – where transformation begins. Key Tags: 28 Moments, Jay McBain, Ecosystem Strategy, AstraZeneca SAP Deal, Seven Layer Stack, B2B Buying Journey, Partner Ecosystem, NTT, SoftwareOne, Channel Strategy, Buyer Intent, Informa TechTarget, Collaborative Selling, Crossbeam, Partner Tap, Workspan, Marketplace Tracking, Co-selling, Tech Integration, Revenue Architecture, Pipeline Growth, Trusted Advisor, Digital Transformation, SAP Optimization, Microsoft AWS Competition. Transcript: [00:00:00] Jay McBain: So if you’re a vendor trying to get into that seven layer stack and you don’t have that relationship, or you don’t have the knowledge that NTT or software one is going in, this will have been a deal that would’ve never hit your pipeline and you’ll have no knowledge. So you will have lost this deal without knowing there was a deal. [00:00:19] Vince Menzione: We’ve been talking 28 moments, but you have a slide. I thought we’d spend some time here because, you know, every conversation with you is about 28 moments, but you finally took the time to analyze one of your deals or one of the deals that was going on with one of your clients and come up with the 28 moments. [00:00:36] Vince Menzione: I thought we’d spend a little time here because this journey slide is a wake up call. Uh, it’s, it’s, it’s all around. Why, why we need to think about all of those. Points we need to think about communities and analysts and marketplaces and proof of concepts and architecture and everything else. I thought maybe you’d take us through this a little bit. [00:00:53] Vince Menzione: ’cause this was for a client, AstraZeneca, by the way. This was, uh, if you don’t know this, ICI Americas was the precursor of mm-hmm. AstraZeneca. It was the first SAP customer in North America. [00:01:03] Jay McBain: Nice. I did [00:01:04] Vince Menzione: not know that. That’s why Microsoft and SAP both headquartered. In that area, near nearby, that client. [00:01:10] Vince Menzione: That’s, uh, news, new news. [00:01:11] Jay McBain: And by the way, this is an SAP deal we’re looking at. Yeah. Uh, so two things here. One is that, um, while I was declaring the decade of the ecosystem, you know, spending time with you and Boca, in between that time we got acquired. Canals, which was Latin for channel, got acquired by oia, part of Informa TechTarget, part of this bigger informa company, which is a Fortune 100 company outta the uk. [00:01:32] Jay McBain: Fantastic. You know, we’re part of this massive organization that is really around buyer intent. How, you know, a tech target and, uh, running hundreds of magazines like Information Week and Computer Week that customers and partners read running hundreds of events, the biggest events on the planet. [00:01:49] Vince Menzione: Crazy [00:01:49] Jay McBain: in B2B, like Black Hat and all these things are run by [00:01:52] Vince Menzione: Yeah, [00:01:53] Jay McBain: informa. [00:01:53] Jay McBain: So it’s got this massive mountain of data. About the 28 moments. So when you start to think if you’re a CMO and you start to think about the early moments, you, you think about somebody reading an ebook or, um, going to a, a webinar or going onto a LinkedIn live just like this one. Yeah, going to a major event and getting a pair of socks from you. [00:02:13] Jay McBain: Um, but anything early in the journey. These are the m qls. These are the things that I need enough of them to be credible before I hand them over to my sales team. ’cause I don’t wanna be laughed out of the room. Hey, they read an ebook. They must, AstraZeneca must be buying millions of dollars of stuff. [00:02:27] Vince Menzione: Traditional marketing lead. [00:02:29] Jay McBain: Traditional marketing lead. So they’re a bit nervous about sharing that. And then later on, the sales motions, the demos and all the progression of the sales. This was the two decades before us, the decade of sales, decade of marketing. But the 28 moments, just to take a step back, if you haven’t heard, it is just a considered purchase. [00:02:46] Jay McBain: It’s about psychology, human psychology. When you go and buy a car, second most expensive thing that you will purchase you on average will go through 28 moments getting ready for that purchase. Some people go through two moments and they just drive to the Cadillac dealership to see Larry, who’s been selling Cadillacs to the family for 80 years. [00:03:04] Jay McBain: Yep. Some people spend 58 moments. That’s probably me. [00:03:07] Vince Menzione: That’s you, a, [00:03:08] Jay McBain: you know, going through all the depreciation, watching every YouTube video, you know, going to the end of the earth. But the average is 28. So you start to think about this, this is the same buying a car considered purchase, that you would buy a million dollars in software. [00:03:21] Jay McBain: From Microsoft or SAP. So when you look at these moments, you start to think, you know, how is you before you buy that car, downloading the invoice price, downloading this month’s backend rebates. Should I buy it in January? Should I buy it in February? All these decisions you make before you get to that dealership, you’re smarter than the salesperson, smarter than the sales manager. [00:03:39] Jay McBain: You know what 5,000 people bought the car for within 50 miles of you? I mean, you’re just so smart. You actually don’t need the dealership anymore. Just Carvana to me, hand me the keys. Exactly. But now in buying technology, hardware, software services, customers are getting this smart. And here’s all the moments they take to get this smart. [00:03:57] Jay McBain: But the thing we always had in mind in this decade of the ecosystem was the 96% there are trusted people. Yeah. Spending decades building that trust that come in in critical moments. They’re not marketing moments, they’re not sales moments. They are fully partnership moments. Yeah. And they’re on this slide in light blue. [00:04:15] Jay McBain: So if you were to look at this deal and, and somebody in marketing is finding these eBooks and webinars and they think there might be something, AWS got a direct hit on their website. So there’s something brewing at AstraZeneca. It, it might be in, it’s a big pharmaceutical company, so you’re probably spending millions of dollars if something’s brewing. [00:04:31] Jay McBain: Yep. But guess what? At the same time, in December on this six month journey. Partners come in with five different paid projects, consulting, advisory design projects, and in this case it was NTT software one, Yash and uh, ISV was there. Yep. But NTT won three different. Deals right at that critical stage. It wasn’t Accenture, it wasn’t Deloitte, NTT at this particular department of AstraZeneca had spent the decades building those relationships. [00:04:58] Jay McBain: So they were the one, and they won critical part of this. And so that’s when the deal is won. And it’s not at April when the money’s being spent. Yeah, it’s, it’s not in March when a couple more ISVs joined the mix, that seven layer stack that solves this particular problem, it was right there. So if you’re a vendor trying to get into that seven layer stack and you don’t have that relationship, or you don’t have the knowledge that NTT or software one is going in, this will have been a deal that would’ve never hit your pipeline and you’ll have no knowledge. [00:05:30] Jay McBain: So you will have lost this deal without knowing there was a deal, which makes up again, the majority of your tam. [00:05:34] Vince Menzione: Yeah. [00:05:35] Jay McBain: But what if I did have this agentic ability to see this deal coming, and I’m a cybersecurity company, I’m just competing for layer five of the deal, but I know that it’s all happening in December. [00:05:46] Jay McBain: So the two things that jump out on this particular slide is one, they don’t just show up in December. [00:05:51] Vince Menzione: Yeah, [00:05:51] Jay McBain: this went closed one in their Salesforce CRM in August, September, well, before the customer ever read an ebook. So now you’re not dealing with a flimsy MQL. You’re dealing with a couple of great, you know, top partner 1000 sized firms. [00:06:09] Jay McBain: One of them is a partner, 30 firm. [00:06:11] Vince Menzione: Exactly. [00:06:12] Jay McBain: That is absolutely going into and earning hundreds of thousands of dollars in services to guide the customer to a millions of dollars in purchase. And, and you can imagine in that boardroom. With A CMO saying, Hey, I got this stuff here. And the head of channels or partnerships saying, no, no, this is real. [00:06:32] Jay McBain: Here’s the names, faces, and places. Yeah. And here’s how it’s happening. And this is exactly, this is the Gantt chart, this is the show up, this is the project, this is the outcome. This is exactly how it’s playing out. Now if I could go back and the board and the C-suite should be asking us, well, how many more deals like this can you see? [00:06:50] Vince Menzione: Yeah. [00:06:51] Jay McBain: If our TAM is, you know, how many billions of dollars? Could you double our pipeline by seeing more of these middle moments? And if we got a couple of months to spend with these partners before they get in front of the customer, could they build more of our portfolio into the deal so we’re not just layer five, maybe we’re layer three and layer five. [00:07:10] Vince Menzione: This slide screams at me. Integr Tech integration Cha. A partner channel integration of tech, uh, whether it’s Crossbeam, whether it’s Partner Tap, whether it’s work span, or any of these other technologies, tackle any of these technologies that are tracking marketplace, that are tracking partner to partner, co-selling. [00:07:30] Vince Menzione: Getting the integration points. The only way to really understand the situation here, because this is a multinational company. Yeah. It’s being touched at all PO points around the globe. And to understand who’s calling who, who’s influencing who, and getting a real view, you know, a uber view of what that looks like is super important. [00:07:47] Jay McBain: It is. And you know, if I’m trying to sell like a cross beam or partner tab or work span or something into my executive team, I’m just showing them this slide. [00:07:54] Vince Menzione: Exactly. [00:07:54] Jay McBain: Would you like to know about this deal? Like you see, October is the start of the timeline here. Would you like to know about this deal in August, September? [00:08:00] Vince Menzione: Yep. [00:08:01] Jay McBain: Would you like to know about it automatically? Again, we’re not waiting for somebody, a human in a cubicle to go fill out a form. We’re not waiting for them to call somebody at our in, in a cubicle at our company. Yeah. We’re literally age genically sharing platforms, and so when this triggers that AstraZeneca and now triggers in our CRM system as well, our team on AstraZeneca gets notified and it gets notified in September before the 28 moments even starts. [00:08:27] Jay McBain: This, the power of this, of doubling, tripling your pipeline and then winning a bigger yield, a bigger percentage of that pipeline. This is the holy grail of our industry, and no one’s gonna get to a hundred percent. You’re not gonna have a hundred percent of your tam covered by your pipeline. No one’s gonna win a hundred percent of that. [00:08:43] Jay McBain: But again, we only have to be 10 or 20% better than our competitors and we need to start moving on this now. [00:08:50] Vince Menzione: So your imperative for the partners here, well everyone watching here today, I mean, this screams to me build your ecosystem strategy in such a strong and succinct way. What else would you say to them? [00:09:00] Jay McBain: I mean, the second thing that jumps out, you see two AWS direct touches here. This is something that this would be inbound. This AWS would see this deal in their pipeline. [00:09:09] Vince Menzione: Yeah. [00:09:10] Jay McBain: Because the customer came to them. AWS lost this deal. Crazy. So Microsoft won this deal. I, I mentioned Microsoft outgrowing AWS Yeah. [00:09:19] Jay McBain: ’cause in this particular case, NTT and Software One and Yash came in with Microsoft. Yeah. To solve an SAP optimization, Microsoft, and, you know, seven layer deal. So whether you’re in AWS, whether you’re in Microsoft, whether you’re anywhere else in this industry, you’re thinking like, you’re not gonna probably overtake what happens in December. [00:09:39] Jay McBain: These are the most trusted, smartest people in the room. And whatever happens in those projects is the seven layer stack the customer’s gonna buy in March, April. So I, I start to think about this and go, I need to win. ’cause NTT has a wonderful relationship with AWS. [00:09:55] Vince Menzione: They do, [00:09:56] Jay McBain: I mean, partner of the year level. [00:09:57] Jay McBain: I mean, they’ve got 10,000 people certified. I mean, there’s just a, you know, there’s no one at AWS that, um, you know, would take a, a loss here because it’s a wonderful relationship. And Software One, they [00:10:09] Vince Menzione: go back to Microsoft actually 30, 40 years though they do. They were Dimension data before that. Yeah. [00:10:14] Vince Menzione: And they have the long hit Legacy And Software One. Software one as well. You, [00:10:19] Jay McBain: you know, well Software one is Microsoft’s biggest reseller, uh, in Europe. And now with Crayon, you know, one of the biggest in the world. So I would be nervous if I was looking at this and saw Software one coming in with NTT and watching these things take place if I were able to see this back in September, October and work with these companies. [00:10:38] Jay McBain: That’s where kind of Microsoft came into the picture. And this never hit Microsoft’s pipeline. No Microsoft salesperson ever worked on it, but millions of dollars came to Microsoft. Yeah. Uh, out of this deal. So there are examples of where Microsoft gets touched and AWS wins the deal. So this isn’t meant to say that it happens in every case, but it’s meant to say data rules the future, and agent ai, the ability to plumb in these boxes. [00:11:00] Jay McBain: Working with Informa tech, target people that can plumb in the boxes for you with third party data, helping you with the light blue boxes. We gotta be obsessed over these light blue boxes. [00:11:11] Vince Menzione: It’s incredible. The Ultimate Partner Winter Retreat is gonna be here in the Boca Studio. This is the third year that we’re gonna be here in Boca. [00:11:21] Vince Menzione: This is always a favorite of our community members, our executive members, our sponsors and speakers. We’ll all be here in the studio, which is a really intimate setting. We can see upwards of 40, 50 people. Uh, we’ll be hosting an incredible dinner at the Boca Resort overlooking the golf course. That’s an incredible property and, uh, we’d love to have you join us. [00:11:45] Vince Menzione: Thank you for being part of the ultimate Partner community, and I hope to see you this year at one of our events. Thank you.

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Send a textThis 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 round, Tray.ai's launch of the Tray Agent Hub, and new agentic releases from Mendix and OutSystems underscore how aggressively vendors are repositioning around autonomous workflows and AI-first orchestration layers. ServiceNow's unveiling of its AI Experience and Plex's connected worker integration push the same narrative into IT service management and manufacturing operations, signaling that agentic concepts are no longer confined to experimental edges of the stack. At the same time, a parallel storyline of governance and execution risk is playing out, with Zimmer Biomet's $172M ERP lawsuit against Deloitte, Europe's continued delays fixing a troubled Oracle system, Daedong USA's faltering ERP injunction, and the EU Commission's investigation into SAP's practices reinforcing how fragile large-scale enterprise transformations remain. Together, these developments paint a bifurcated 2026 landscape: rapid platform innovation driven by AI ambition on one side, and unresolved accountability, regulatory scrutiny, and implementation risk on the other.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=m3VmbEsy5uQQuestions for Panelists?

How Do Marketplaces Turn AI Ambition Into Scalable, Trusted Enterprise Reality? That is the question I explore in this episode with Julie Teigland, Global Vice Chair for Alliances and Ecosystems at EY, someone who sits right at the intersection of enterprise demand, technology platforms, and the ecosystems that increasingly power modern AI adoption. As organizations race to deploy AI at scale, many are discovering that the real challenge is not a lack of tools, but the complexity of choosing, integrating, governing, and standing behind those decisions with confidence. Julie explains why marketplaces are becoming a powerful mechanism for reducing friction in this process, helping enterprises move beyond experimentation toward AI solutions that are trusted, scalable, and aligned with real business outcomes. We talk about how marketplaces can collapse complexity, curate choice, and bring much needed clarity to leaders who are overwhelmed by the sheer volume of AI options available today. Julie also shares how EY approaches this challenge through its "client zero" mindset, turning the lens inward and treating EY itself as the first marketplace customer. By doing so, EY stress tests governance, security, and integration at real enterprise scale, serving tens of thousands of clients, running hundreds of thousands of servers, and processing hundreds of millions of transactions every day. That internal experience shapes how EY helps clients navigate trust, accountability, and cross-vendor integration risks, particularly as AI becomes more embedded into workflows and decision-making. We also explore how strong alliances with cloud leaders like Microsoft and SAP are shaping how AI solutions are vetted, standardized, and deployed across industries, as well as how regulation, particularly in Europe, is influencing a shift toward responsibility by design. This conversation goes beyond technology to focus on orchestration, trust, and outcomes, and why marketplaces are evolving from simple app stores into something far more strategic for enterprise AI. If you are trying to understand how ecosystems, governance, and marketplaces can help turn AI from isolated projects into sustained business value, this episode offers a thoughtful and grounded perspective.  I would love to know what resonated with you most. How do you see marketplaces shaping the future of AI adoption inside your organization? Useful LInks Connect With Julie Teigland Learn More About EY

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We are inescapably spiritual beings. Just as we draw in physical life from food and drink, we draw sustenance from Christ. In this message from John 15, Pastor Philip Miller explores Jesus' vivid metaphor from the Vine to the Vinedresser, the Branches, the Fruit, and the Sap. When we try to find life in anything else, it never really satisfies. This month's special offer is available for a donation of any amount. Get yours at https://moodyoffer.com or call us at 1-800-215-5001.  Moody Church Media [https://www.moodymedia.org/], home of "Moody Church Hour," exists to bring glory to God through the transformation of lives.  Dr. Philip Miller is the 17th Senior Pastor of The Moody Church. He is the featured speaker on "Living Hope" and "Moody Church Hour," with programs broadcasting on 700 outlets in the U.S. He and his wife Krista live in Chicago with their four children. Pastor Philip is passionate about proclaiming God's Word, cultivating healthy ministry, and investing in future leaders.  SUPPORT:  Tax Deductible Support: https://www.moodymedia.org/donate/  Become an Endurance Partner: https://endurancepartners.org/    SUBSCRIBE:   YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MoodyChurchMedia  Daily Devotional and Weekly Digest: https://www.moodymedia.org/newsletters/subscription/ 

We are inescapably spiritual beings. Just as we draw in physical life from food and drink, we draw sustenance from Christ. In this message from John 15, Pastor Philip Miller explores Jesus' vivid metaphor from the Vine to the Vinedresser, the Branches, the Fruit, and the Sap. When we try to find life in anything else, it never really satisfies. This month's special offer is available for a donation of any amount. Get yours at https://moodyoffer.com or call us at 1-800-215-5001.  Moody Church Media [https://www.moodymedia.org/], home of "Moody Church Hour," exists to bring glory to God through the transformation of lives.  Dr. Philip Miller is the 17th Senior Pastor of The Moody Church. He is the featured speaker on "Living Hope" and "Moody Church Hour," with programs broadcasting on 700 outlets in the U.S. He and his wife Krista live in Chicago with their four children. Pastor Philip is passionate about proclaiming God's Word, cultivating healthy ministry, and investing in future leaders.  SUPPORT:  Tax Deductible Support: https://www.moodymedia.org/donate/  Become an Endurance Partner: https://endurancepartners.org/    SUBSCRIBE:   YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MoodyChurchMedia  Daily Devotional and Weekly Digest: https://www.moodymedia.org/newsletters/subscription/