5 Entra ID Updates You Can’t Afford to Ignore in 2026 (Backup, Governance, CA Agent & Risk Score Exposed)
In this episode the hosts dive into five critical Entra ID updates for 2026, focusing on the new Entra Backup and Recovery preview, tenant governance enhancements, the Unified Risk Score core, and improvements to passkeys and Conditional Access agents. They explain how the backup feature offers daily object‑level snapshots for P1/P2 customers, enabling quick restores and difference reports that highlight configuration changes—helpful for troubleshooting accidental deletions or potential breaches. Governance updates introduce cross‑tenant controls and streamlined policy management, while the Unified Risk Score provides a consolidated view of security posture across the environment. Guest experts Nathan, Drew, and Thomas share real‑world incidents where these tools could have prevented downtime and data loss.
From Ultramarathons to Market Shifts: Scott Sambucci on Leading Innovation
In this episode, Scott Zambucci, Managing Director at NIA1, discusses how his background in ultramarathons and scaling tech firms informs his approach to accelerating innovation in regulated financial services. He explains NIA1's core offering—a secure, off‑estate digital sandbox that streamlines...
Achieving True ROI on Your Enterprise Software Investments - The ERP Advisor Podcast Episode 138
In this episode, Sean Wendell, founder of ERP Advisors Group, walks listeners through how to realistically calculate and achieve ROI on enterprise software projects. He emphasizes the need to set cross‑departmental goals, differentiate between quantitative and qualitative benefits, and recognize...
Automation and AI at Work in Pickens County
In this episode of the Tyler Tech Podcast, accounts payable specialist Holly Poole explains how Pickens County, Georgia transitioned from fragmented document‑management and accounting systems to a unified, cloud‑based ERP (ERP Pro) enhanced with AI‑driven invoice capture and AP automation. The new...
Modernizing Federal Government IT with Atlassian and Isos Technology
In this episode, Leah Wood and Nick Nader of ISOS Technology discuss modernizing fragmented federal IT Service Management (ITSM) environments using Atlassian’s Jira Service Management (JSM). They explain how legacy ITSM setups—often a patchwork of tools like ServiceNow, spreadsheets, and...
The ERP Minute Episode 230 - March 24th, 2026
In episode 230 of the ERP Minute, host Rebecca McCabe highlights a wave of AI-driven announcements across major enterprise software vendors. Workday launches its new AI interface, Sauna, offering self‑service agents and enterprise‑wide AI capabilities. SAP unveils AI‑enhanced travel and...
Leaders in ERP Podcast Episode 8 - Stop Drowning in Data: Start Driving Value with AI
In Episode 8 of Leaders in ERP, host Sean Wendell talks with John Glasgow, founder and CEO of Campfire, about how AI is transforming ERP systems from data‑heavy, manual processes to strategic value generators. Glasgow explains that Campfire’s AI‑native platform...
How Can Agentforce Help Manage a Salesforce Backlog?
In this episode, solution architect Neil Foglio explains how treating a Salesforce org as a product rather than a project can transform backlog management. He defines a backlog as a centralized, prioritized list of requests and shows how to craft...
How to Approach ERP User Training and Adoption - The ERP Advisor Episode 136
In this episode, consulting manager Shelby Tone explains how to plan and execute effective ERP user training and adoption, emphasizing early preparation, clear role definition, and leveraging existing tools like learning management systems. She highlights common pitfalls such as last‑minute...
EP267 AI SOC or AI in a SOC? Cutting Through Hype, Pricing Models, and SIEM Detection Efficacy with Raffy Marty
In this episode, Tim Peacock and Anton Chuvakian interview SIEM veteran Raffy Marty about the evolving landscape of security information and event management (SIEM) versus emerging AI‑SOC solutions. Marty argues that traditional SIEMs aren’t dead but are under pressure to...
380: Customer Service's AI Shift: Zendesk CTO Adrian McDermott on Deterministic AI and Context Engineering
In this episode, Zendesk CTO Adrian McDermott discusses the company’s evolution from a product‑led startup to a AI‑driven leader in customer service, emphasizing the shift toward deterministic AI and context engineering. He explains how Zendesk uses generative AI tools to boost...
Kellie Romack on How ServiceNow Generated $355M in AI Value
In this episode, ServiceNow’s Chief Digital Information Officer Kellie Romack explains how the company leveraged AI across its internal operations to generate $355 million in value, highlighting breakthroughs such as automating 90% of IT service desk tickets and cutting sales‑finance query...
The ERP Minute Episode 228 - March 10th, 2026
In this brief episode, host Rebecca McCabe highlights three major ERP news items: Oracle's launch of the AI‑driven Construction and Engineering Advisor for Safety, which uses a massive safety model to forecast risks and improve site safety; SAP's revamped Services...
Re-Air: Data Tools, Templates, and the Trouble with “Easy” Solutions with the Cynical Data Guy
In this re‑aired episode, hosts Eric Dotz and John Wessel chat with regular guest Matt, the Cynical Data Guy, about the rise of low‑code data tools like Clay and the evolving role of the “GT‑M engineer.” They debate whether such...
AEC’s Single Source of Truth: Reality or Pipe Dream?
In this episode the hosts explore whether a true single source of truth (SSOT) for construction project data is achievable or merely aspirational. NuFORMA’s Dave Wagner and Carl Beillette argue that a single vendor solution is unrealistic; instead, the goal...
Scaling Remote Support in Education and Government: The Nash County Playbook
In this episode, Nash County Public Schools’ CTO Tremaine McQueen and Senior Network Engineer J.R. Williams discuss how they evaluated, selected, and rolled out a new remote support platform from BeyondTrust to serve over 3,000 endpoints across 24 schools. They...
Special Episode: Rethinking the ERP Upgrade Path
In this special episode, Intuit’s Executive Vice President and General Manager of Mid‑Market, Ashley Still, challenges the traditional belief that fast‑growing companies must abandon QuickBooks for a heavyweight ERP. She introduces Intuit Enterprise Suite, an ERP that retains QuickBooks‑like usability...
How Ledge Reached $1M ARR with 24 Customers Paying $3K/Month | Tal Kirschenbaum
In this episode, Tal Kirschenbaum, co‑founder and CEO of Ledge, explains how his AI‑native financial close platform reached $1M ARR by serving roughly 24 mid‑market enterprise customers at an average of $3,000 per month. He details Ledge’s focus on automating...
SANS Stormcast Wednesday, March 4th, 2026: CrushFTP Brute Force; Android Patches 0-Day; 0Auth Phishing Abuse
In this 5‑minute Stormcast, Johannes Ulrich covers three security topics: a credential‑guessing campaign targeting CrushFTP admin accounts using default usernames and passwords, the latest Android Patch Tuesday which includes a critical Qualcomm display driver flaw already being exploited, and a...
Leaders in ERP Podcast Episode 7 - Work, Reimagined: How AI Empowers People
In this episode, CPO Jennifer Sherman of Unit4 discusses how AI can finally deliver on ERP’s promise to make work easier by moving from generic, horizontal solutions to industry‑specific, vertically‑focused products that understand the nuances of each sector. She explains...
AI for Better Customer Connections in CX - with Joe Atamian of Comcast
In this episode, Joe Atamian, VP of Inside Sales at Comcast, explains how contact centers lose customer context when interactions jump across IVR, chat, and voice, leading to frustration, longer handle times, and eroded trust. He advocates an AI‑first approach...
From $187M Ecommerce to $5M ARR SaaS: Spresso's Post-Bankruptcy Pivot to Enterprise Software | Jared Yaman
In this episode, Jared Gaiman, co‑founder of Boxed and current CEO of Spresso, recounts the rise of Boxed from a $187 M e‑commerce business to its Chapter 11 filing and subsequent pivot to a $5 M ARR SaaS model focused on enterprise software...
What Are True to the Core Deep Dives at TDX?
In this episode of the Salesforce Admins Podcast, host Kate Lessard explains the new "True to the Core" deep‑dive sessions debuting at TDX, which are built from community feedback to explore core platform topics like Flow, Automation, and Lightning Web...
Defining, Measuring, and Communicating the Value of AI
In this Technovation episode, a panel of CIOs discusses how to define, measure, and communicate AI value, sharing real‑world approaches from Ally Financial and Avery Dennison. Satish Muthukrishnan describes Ally’s cautious, 18‑month rollout of Ally.ai, emphasizing risk‑based governance, human‑in‑the‑loop design, and...
The ERP Minute Episode 226 - February 24th, 2026
In this brief episode, host Rebecca McCabe highlights Sage Intacct's new AI-powered features for finance teams, including a finance intelligence agent, close automation, cash intelligence, and a data cloud, aimed at reducing system switching and enhancing decision‑making. She also covers...
INTX’s Lewis: Radical Automation Shapes Future of Insurance Workforce
In this episode, John Weber talks with Rob Lewis, CEO of Intex Insurance Software, about Chubb’s plan to automate 85% of underwriting and claims functions and cut 20% of its workforce. Lewis explains that legacy core systems have hit a...
Unifying Federal Data Management and Security with Hitachi VSP One
In this episode, Hitachi Vantara Federal’s Guy Garwich and Todd Hansen explain how the Virtual Storage Platform One (VSP1) unifies block, file, object, and mainframe storage into a single data plane with a unified control plane, delivering high‑performance file services,...
Anthropic and OpenAI Battle for Enterprise AI
The episode examines the escalating competition between Anthropic and OpenAI to dominate the enterprise AI market, focusing on each company's recent strategies for deploying AI agents within organizations. Anthropic unveiled an aggressive enterprise agent program that offers pre‑built, department‑specific AI...
Automated, Insightful, and Connected: The Future of Finance with Hari Sankar, SVP of Applications Development at Oracle
In this episode, Oracle SVP Hari Sankar discusses how finance is evolving toward automation, AI‑driven predictive insights, and seamless connectivity. He explains that finance has been slower to adopt new tech due to its high standards for accuracy, governance, and...
EP264 Measuring Your (Agentic) SOC: Two Security Leaders Walk Into a Podcast
In this episode, Tim Peacock and Anton Chuvakian host Alex Pabst, Deputy CISO at Allianz, and Mike Sinnoh, Director of Detection & Response at Google, to discuss evolving SOC metrics in the age of AI and automation. They critique traditional...
Killing Clusters & Orchestrating Chaos with Colt McNealy | Ep. 20
In this episode Tim Berglund talks with Colt McNealy, founder and CEO of Little Horse, about building a Kafka‑based platform for orchestrating microservice workflows and AI agents. Colt describes how his early experience debugging monolithic code with GDB contrasted with...
Product-Market Fit: From Edtech Vitamin to $100M Painkiller
In this episode, Adam Markowitz recounts his transition from a decade‑long edtech venture to building Drata, a compliance automation platform that quickly proved its product‑market fit as a painkiller rather than a vitamin. He explains how rigorous validation—dog‑fooding the product...
Why Stack Overflow and Cloudflare Launched a Pay-per-Crawl Model
In this episode, Stack Overflow’s Janice Manningham and Josh Zhang chat with Cloudflare VP Will Allen about the newly launched pay‑per‑crawl model that lets publishers charge crawlers for access. They explain how AI‑driven content scraping has upended the traditional open‑versus‑block...
The ERP Minute Episode 225 - February 17th, 2026
In this brief episode, the hosts recap Procore's Q4 and full‑year 2025 financial results, highlighting its strong performance in the construction software market. They then discuss NetSuite's new suite of innovations aimed at boosting operational efficiency and supporting rapid growth...
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Security Service Edge (SSE) (Noun) [Word Notes]
In this brief episode, host Rick Howard defines Security Service Edge (SSE) as a cloud‑centric security architecture that blends the shared responsibility model, vendor‑provided security stacks, and direct network peering with major content providers and their fiber networks. He highlights...
Data Is the New Oil, and Your Database Is the only Way to Extract It
In this episode, Ryan interviews Shireesh Thota, Corporate Vice President of Azure Databases at Microsoft, about the rapid evolution of Microsoft's database offerings, including SQL Server, Cosmos DB, and Postgres, and how they fit into a unified Azure data platform....
Leaders in ERP Podcast Episode 6 - Achieve a Zero-Day Financial Close with AI
In this episode, host Shawn Windle talks with Nicolas Kopp, CEO of Rillet, about how artificial intelligence is reshaping the ERP landscape, especially for achieving a zero‑day financial close. They explore AI‑native ERP solutions, the heightened focus on data security,...
91: Using AI in Sales to Automate Go-to-Market Execution with Jason Eubanks
In this episode, Chris Daigle interviews Jason Eubanks, CEO of Aurasell AI, about the need for an AI‑native go‑to‑market operating model rather than piecemeal AI experiments. Jason explains that simply adding AI to legacy CRM systems won’t shift productivity; a...
Beyond Chatbots: How Cara Becomes Your Best CSR
In this episode, Nikhil Kansal, Co‑Founder & CTO of Cara, explains how AI can move beyond chatbots to act as a reliable Customer Service Representative (CSR) that completes end‑to‑end insurance service tasks. He highlights Cara’s role as a coordinating layer...
Health First’s Carr Weaves Tapestry for Integrated Payer-Provider Platform
In this episode, Michael Carr, VP and CIO of Health First, discusses the organization’s integrated payer‑provider platform built on Epic’s suite, including the provider rollout and the Epic Tapestry health‑plan implementation. He highlights how consolidating nine disparate systems into a...
Savage Giving Specific IT Power Back to the State Agencies
In this episode, Maryland CIO Katie Savage discusses how the state is balancing the creation of centralized enterprise IT services with the need to empower individual agencies to retain specialized technology expertise. She outlines the strategies used to standardize core...
How CIOs Can Surface Innovation, Reduce Duplication, and Scale AI
In this episode of Technovation, Peter High interviews Sean Murphy, founder and CEO of DemoHop, about the hidden challenges of innovation in distributed enterprises. Murphy explains how weak ties and siloed work trap ideas, and how DemoHop’s science‑fair‑style demo days...