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Automating finance, which spans accounts payable and receivable, payments, spending management and planning for small and medium businesses, remains BILL’s North Star. Rene Lacerte, CEO and founder, spoke about his passion to help SMBs and how BILL lets customers break away from manual processes. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Rene sat down with Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Niraj Patel earlier this month to speak about software spending sentiment, the network effect of BILL’s 7-million-plus members, transaction sales’ pull on revenue retention, the convergence of software and payments, AI’s impact and more.
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Investing, stocks, commodities, crypto and everything in between. This biweekly podcast with a focus on exchange-traded funds will guide you through the financial markets in Asia and beyond. Sponsored by HKEX.
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Industry-specific cloud products as Salesforce’s fastest-growing business are seeing steady adoption as customers look for out-of-the-box software solutions and to reduce the total cost of ownership. “I don’t think any company can afford too much customization, so I believe they’re all looking for something that’s fast and purpose-built,” Jeff Amann, executive vice president and general manager of Salesforce Industries, tells Bloomberg Intelligence. In this episode of BI’s Tech Disruptors podcast, Amann sits down with BI senior technology analyst Anurag Rana to discuss how Salesforce is tailoring its products to better fit industry use cases, striving for continued growth regardless of economic conditions. Amann also shares examples in various sectors, and previews some of the 100 AI use cases unveiled at Dreamforce.
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Data architecture is core to building robust enterprise applications, and as enterprises focus on harnessing unstructured data, new non-relational database solutions have seen increased adoption. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Sahir Azam, chief product officer at MongoDB, joins Sunil Rajgopal, senior software analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, to discuss the data-technology landscape, AI-driven refactoring and rewriting of legacy applications and broadening deployment of vector search across the corporate technology stack. The two also talk about MongoDB’s product evolution; competition with Snowflake, Databricks and Oracle; its addressable market; and shifting IT budgets.
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“One of the most important elements of copilots going forward is going to be the context you make available to it. Everybody wants a copilot to understand them,” says Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Business and Industry Copilot, Charles Lamanna. Speaking with Anurag Rana, Bloomberg Intelligence’s senior technology analyst, in this Tech Disruptors podcast episode, Lamanna highlights the fundamental construction of copilots, the different models they use, how customers can fine-tune them further in Copilot Studio and how this progresses the company to the vision of a fully autonomous CRM software. The two also discuss automation in the context of the Power Platform and what these technological advancements mean for the future of the software industry.
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The reason to bring AI or any other such technology into a company is to drive business outcomes, and Uniphore has delivered these outcomes by packaging AI solutions as software-as-a-service, CEO Umesh Sachdev tells Bloomberg Intelligence. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Sachdev joins BI senior technology analyst Mandeep Singh to discuss the AI opportunity with conversational interfaces in large enterprises. They examine contact centers, video conferencing to CRM systems, the growing use cases for customizing and deploying large language models with an application layer.
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How long could the strong growth in the physical infrastructure for data centers last? And what about the impact of AI and other emerging technologies? Could that extend the demand cycle for Schneider and industrials peers? In this episode of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Tech Disruptors podcast, Peter Herweck, CEO of Schneider Electric, sits down with Omid Vaziri, Bloomberg Intelligence senior industrials analyst, to examine the market opportunities and challenges of Generative AI and data-center rollout, growth expectations and physical limitations. Additionally, they discussed how to futureproof data centers and the energy infrastructure by assuring power availability, its resilience and sustainability.
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A race to deliver the fastest AI system is emerging, resulting in a crop of new companies with innovative approaches to AI processing. Cerebras returns to the Tech Disruptors podcast studios to discuss the broadening AI market opportunity for its wafer scale engine (WSE) chip. CEO Andrew Feldman sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Hardware analyst Woo Jin Ho to discuss the future evolution of AI compute and how Cerebras aims to leverage the WSE-3 processor to better unlock the AI inference market by delivering AI responses 20x faster at one-fifth price of hyperscale cloud.
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Businesses are turning to data to build their competitive edge, and AI tools will likely become a core layer of business intelligence and analytics platforms. In this episode of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Tech Disruptors podcast, Ariel Katz, CEO of Sisense, joins Sunil Rajgopal, BI senior software analyst, to discuss the democratization of enterprise analytics and intelligence tools, the shift toward natural language querying and the evolution of related tools. The two also talk about the Sisense Platform, competition in the industry, the addressable market and market consolidation.
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AI-fueled product innovation is likely to reset many functions and industries, and companies could look to harness the full power of their data to drive business intelligence. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Mike Capone, CEO of Qlik, joins Sunil Rajgopal, senior software analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, to discuss enterprise analytics and intelligence tools, the evolving data-integration and transformation landscape and the potential impacts of AI. The two also talk about the acquisition of Talend, competition in the industry, AI monetization and future product verticals and initiatives.
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Okta CEO Todd McKinnon says clients are increasingly asking about resiliency in identity security — a mission-critical enterprise application — amid the fallout of the CrowdStrike global outage. In this episode of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Tech Disruptors podcast, BI tech analyst Mandeep Singh talks with McKinnon about the moats that Okta has carved over Microsoft, consolidation in cybersecurity, the application of generative AI and more
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Enterprises implementing AI would likely end up with a combination of their own core specialized models and out-of-the-box frontier solutions, Rafee Tarafdar, Infosys’ Head of Strategic Technology Group said on the Tech Disruptors podcast. Tarafdar and Bloomberg Intelligence’s senior technology analyst Anurag Rana discussed several AI use cases across retail, supply chain, services and operations, as well as essential requirements for enterprises to capitalize on the emerging technology. They also compared large and small language models, talked about on-premise model operations and looked into where the future value of AI lies.
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Building responsive and high-powered websites through an intuitive and visual development approach is Webflow’s core strength, with its no-code technology offering broad appeal to marketers and engineers. Vlad Magdalin, co-founder and chief innovation officer, tells Bloomberg Intelligence. Linda Tong, Webflow’s CEO, also shares her thoughts on software-spending trends and customer segmentation in this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Magdalin and Tong sit down with Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Niraj Patel to dive into the details of Webflow’s differentiation and its targeted customer. Hear their insights on the competitive positioning among website builders, Gen AI as a potential disruptor and what product features to expect next from the company.
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“Every customer recognizes that it is data that is the fuel that powers AI,” says Arun Ulag, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Azure Data. In this episode of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Tech Disruptors podcast, Ulag talks with BI senior technology analyst Anurag Rana about how Microsoft has been reorganizing its data management and insights portfolio for customers looking to leverage their data for AI. At the center of this is Microsoft Fabric, the company’s newer software-as-a-service, aimed at delivering a full data and analytics platform all in one. Ulag also discusses the company’s efforts to leverage open data to make its services compatible with third parties outside the Microsoft ecosystem, to provide customers with the widest range of options.
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Enterprise information management tools, processes and outcomes are set to evolve with AI and the shift to cloud. In this episode of Tech Disruptors, OpenText CEO and CTO Mark Barrenechea joins Sunil Rajgopal, senior software analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, to discuss the development of the enterprise information management landscape, AI-led product and productivity initiatives and the company’s move to become a SaaS-first business. The two also talk about competition, security products, the demand environment and M&A strategy amid evolving macroeconomic dynamics.
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“Generative AI with a combination of cloud and data is poised to transform every aspect of how organizations operate,” Amazon Web Services Vice President of AI and Data Swami Sivasubramanian says in the latest episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast. Sivasubramanian sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Anurag Rana to discuss key developments in data and generative AI, and explores the impact of industry verticals like financial services, health care and media.
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Companies’ decision-making is increasingly driven by data, with the quality of that data critical, especially in AI-driven applications. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Barr Moses, founder and CEO of Monte Carlo, joins Sunil Rajgopal, senior software analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, to discuss the intricacies of data-dependent intelligence and how data-observability solutions can be deployed to proactively monitor, identify and resolve data incidents. The two also talk about importance of data quality and testing tools, Monte Carlo’s platform, its business model, competitive landscape and the importance of trusted data for generative AI use cases.
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Helping the consumer tackle the financial marketplace for credit cards, auto loans, mortgages, insurance and other financial products is the value that Credit Karma brings to its over 130 million customers, says Ryan Graciano, co-founder and chief product officer of Credit Karma. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Graciano sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Niraj Patel to explain the company’s technology, product vision and the competitive landscape. Tune in to learn his view on Gen-AI platforms and what’s ahead from Intuit’s Credit Karma.
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“Underlying large language models have advanced significantly in the past six months, so that’s allowed us is to start looking at software development in a much more ‘agentic’ approach, where the agent essentially becomes a collaborator with the software developer,” says Deepak Singh, vice president of next-gen developer experience at Amazon Web Services. On this episode of Tech Disruptors, Singh joins Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Anurag Rana to take a deep dive into the realm of generative-AI chatbots and coding assistants, which the company offers through its Amazon Q service. The two discuss how these gen-AI agents are boosting developer productivity and enticing cloud migration, and how AWS is monetizing this service, both on a seat and a consumption basis.
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“Microsoft is making a bet that we’re not going to need a single AI, we’re going to need many different AIs” Sebastien Bubeck, Microsoft’s vice president of generative-AI research, tells Bloomberg senior technology analyst Anurag Rana. In this Tech Disruptors episode, the two examine the differences between a large language model like ChatGPT-4o and a small language model such as Microsoft’s Phi-3 family. Bubeck and Rana account for various use cases of the models across various industries and workflows. The two also compare the costs and differences in compute/GPU requirements between SLMs and LLMs.
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