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For selecting generative-AI strategy, “there’s usually four drivers before you get into the use case: domain accuracy, efficiency, cost effectiveness and, of course, deployment preferences,” says Satish Thomas, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of business and industry solutions. In this episode of Tech Disruptors, Thomas sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Anurag Rana to discuss all the ways in which gen AI is being applied by industries. The two cover the nuances of industry application and how it differs from an out-of-the-box foundational model. This episode also goes over several real-world examples of customers already implementing gen-AI solutions and the steps they took to get there.
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“Merchants can bet on Shopify and not worry about falling behind the cutting edge here,” explains the company’s vice president of product, Glen Coates, to Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Anurag Rana on the latest episode of Tech Disruptors. “We are extremely good at software, so merchants can be really good at what they’re trying to build into their business.” The two delve into a broad range of topics and assess the problems facing merchants, discussing how Shopify addresses such issues in a highly unified and integrated manner. Coates compares the needs of an entrepreneur with those of an enterprise, talking through several product areas, including point-of-sale, logistics, capital lending and generative AI.
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US companies are experiencing about 1,800 attacks every week through attempted incursions that are more sophisticated than in years past. Check Point’s chairman and co-founder Gil Shwed discusses the outlook for cybersecurity in 2025 with Mandeep Singh, senior technology analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence. Firewalls, hyperscaler cloud capex, CrowdStrike’s mid-year IT outage, US elections, data security for large language model deployments and potential consolidation are some of the topics that were discussed.
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As AI moves toward agentic systems capable of performing tasks with minimal human intervention, guardrails setting boundaries and human verification of potentially unsafe output become crucial for enterprise applications, according to Salesforce executive vice president and chief scientist Silvio Savarese. In this episode of Tech Disruptors, Savarese and Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Anurag Rana take an in-depth look at the differences between gen-AI assistants and the agents, which the company announced at its Dreamforce 2024 conference. Other topics include the application of small vs. large language models, enterprise AI vs. that for the general public and security.
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Enterprise work-management tools are likely to show dramatic development with growing machine-learning capabilities, more capable foundational models and the potential rollout of AI agents. This could bring opportunities as well as challenges, particularly in a space that’s highly fragmented. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, ClickUp founder and CEO Zeb Evans joins Sunil Rajgopal, senior software analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, to discuss the shifting landscape of work-management solutions as AI capabilities and tools continue to grow. They examine the impact of the changes on competition, and the importance of scale. They also talk about ClickUp’s product journey, how its solutions differ from peers and potential revenue models.
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Datastax’s CEO Chet Kapoor talks about his company’s positioning in the database market with Bloomberg Intelligence’s Sunil Rajgopal and Mandeep Singh. They discuss the company’s pivot to generative AI, LLM customization and RAG (retrieval augmented generation) as enterprise customers evaluate different databases for AI inferencing.
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Helping developers identify issues with the computer code they’re writing, from bugs to security vulnerabilities, is Sonar’s mission. CEO Tariq Shaukat shares with Bloomberg Intelligence how 7 million developers and over 400,000 organizations are leveraging the company’s platform, which analyzes more than 30 programming languages to reduce the business risk from bad code. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Shaukat sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Niraj Patel to dive into the details of Sonar’s scale in handling trillions of lines of coding, its addressable market size, disruptions from generative AI, the power of so-called clean code and much more.
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“It's like an orchestra – each AI expert agent has unique expertise and could be an individual musician, Joule would be the conductor, and you can think of the human as the composer,” Walter Sun, senior vice president and global head of AI at SAP, tells Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Anurag Rana. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Sun breaks down the three pillars of SAP’s AI strategy, from its AI copilot, Joule, to application-specific AI and developer-focused AI tools. Additionally, the two cover topics related to SAP’s data framework for customers, and the decisions behind which foundational models it provides to customers.
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Companies across industries will continue to scrutinize information-technology spending, looking closely at the IT assets and compute environments and their utilization, particularly as AI investments are set to rise. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Flexera CEO Jim Ryan joins Sunil Rajgopal, senior software analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, to discuss IT spending and optimization trends amid the ever-growing on-premise and SaaS software stack, and the platforms that help streamline costs. They also discuss Flexera’s product journey, scale and how its solutions differ from the likes of IBM’s Apptio.For more insights, register for BI’s gen-AI Nov. 20 conference here. Find this and other Bloomberg Intelligence podcasts at BI PODCASTS .
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“The problem today is that data is growing at a 27% compound growth rate and budgets are not. There’s fundamental tension between data growth and budget” explains Cribl CEO Clint Sharp in an effort to break down how customers are struggling to get the most from their data. In this Tech Disruptors episode, Sharp sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Anurag Rana, and together the two discuss how Cribl is tackling this issue by simultaneously reducing a client’s data volumes and costs. Sharp also touches on how generative AI is making its way into the picture and how this shapes the future for the company.
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Enterprise workflows and tools are likely to see a dramatic shift as AI adoption and prowess grows, and the intensifying race to roll out AI could have implications for enterprise productivity, collaboration and process automation. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Appianco-founder and CTO Michael Beckley joins Sunil Rajgopal, senior software analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, to discuss how the ground on solutions to design, automate, and optimize business processes is shifting, the role of low-code platforms and how AI is likely to alter the outlook. The two also talk about Appian’s product journey, key customer verticals and competition.
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Postscript differentiates itself through SMS marketing and sales software that can power brands to increase engagement with customers and understand them better, Adam Turner, CEO and cofounder, tells Bloomberg Intelligence. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Turner sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Niraj Patel to discuss the company’s software flywheel, infinity testing, business-model changes, one-to-one B2C relationships and potential generative-AI disruption. He also outlines how Postscript leverages its six-year-plus SMS product focus, deep integration with Shopify and advanced data infrastructure.
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“What our customers are looking for is to move out of the pilot phase of projects and delivering enterprise value fast,” says ServiceNow Chief Commercial Officer Paul Smith. “The fastest we have seen from purchase to production is 60 days.” In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Smith and Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Anurag Rana discuss how enterprise tech spending behavior has shifted since generative AI came onto the scene. The two also examine how ServiceNow is continuing to thrive even as the broader economy and buying environment remains uncertain. Topics around industry solutions, value proposition as well as generative-AI strategy all come to the forefront of the conversation.
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As interest in generative AI broadens, Adobe’s chief strategy officer Scott Belsky says “The real opportunity is to build the orchestration layer and the actual applications that leverage these models in the ways you want to use them.” In this latest episode of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Tech Disruptors podcast, Belsky talks with BI senior technology analyst Anurag Rana about how Adobe is tackling customer demand such as web applications, more accessible tools and generative AI. Belsky explains how the company thinks about third-party foundational models, AI monetization, the impact on jobs and more.
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“Ask the fundamental question: What if your workforce has no limits? This is really now about humans with agents driving customer success together,” Marc Benioff, cofounder and CEO of Salesforce, tells Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Anurag Rana. In this episode of Tech Disruptors, we sit down with a hallmark leader of the application-software industry to discuss his views on its next evolution with generative-AI agents. Benioff shares his expectations on how humans and AI agents will coexist in the workforce, the commoditization of foundational models, why companies need a central platform for AI and what positions Salesforce well, as one of the largest enterprise-software companies, to deliver secure and knowledgeable generative AI.
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As enterprises look to harness data that stems and flows through diverse and dispersed source and end-points, robust practices around storing, processing, access, availability, reliability and security need to be ensured, driving demand for compliance-automation platforms. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Drata CEO Adam Markowitz joins Sunil Rajgopal, senior software analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, to discuss the security and compliance-automation product landscape, the potential market opportunity and growing role of AI. The two also talk about Drata’s product journey, go-to-market strategy and customer expansion.
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Sanctuary AI, which focuses on providing humanoid robots to automakers, industrial manufacturers and logistics companies, is uniquely positioned because of its “hands-first” approach that approximates human dexterity, says cofounder and chief technology officer Olivia Norton. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Norton sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Mandeep Singh to discuss the development of humanoid robots and their nexus with gen AI and large language models.
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Unifying the business communication stack from contact center to sales team to business collaboration is Dialpad’s focus. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Craig Walker, founder and CEO, speaks about the company’s AI solutions across unified communication as a service, contact centers and conferencing. Walker sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Niraj Patel and dives into software-spending trends, Dialpad’s customer focus and how the company is position itself in a crowded landscape. Tune in to hear about AI disruption, Dialpad’s large language model that’s built on over 6 billion minutes of long-form conversation, and more.
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Mass-scale storage may be ripe for disruption as NAND flash memory plays a bigger role within cloud and corporate IT environments, taking share from more energy-intensive hard disk-based storage arrays. In this episode of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Tech Disruptors podcast, Pure Storage CEO Charlie Giancarlo sits with BI analyst Woo Jin Ho on the company’s 15-year anniversary to discuss why its technology, software and total cost of ownership can lead to an all-flash storage environment within five years, while it aims to tame the data tsunami to support corporate AI adoption.
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