WBSRocks: Scaling Growth with AI, Enterprise Software, and Digital Transformation WBSP800: Grow Your Business by Learning from Enterprise Software Stories - Aug 2025, Ep 30, an Objective Panel Discussion
A wave of funding announcements, acquisitions, and product launches highlights how quickly AI, data, and customer engagement technologies are converging across the enterprise. Significant financings for PhysicsX, Vultr, and Vellum signal strong investor confidence in platforms that support AI-native workloads, applied intelligence, and modern infrastructure, while Capgemini’s acquisition of WNS underscores growing demand for large-scale, technology-enabled business transformation services. On the customer and marketing side, deeper integrations and feature expansions from CallMiner, Hightouch, Insight7, Jasper, Oktopost, and Salesforce reflect a shift toward real-time intelligence, personalization, and content automation embedded directly into core CRM and contact center ecosystems. Collectively, these developments suggest the market is moving beyond point solutions toward tightly integrated platforms that combine data, AI, and execution at enterprise scale.
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=SKJ7uZQ3sRA
Questions for Panelists?
🔗Sam Gupta: linkedin.com/in/samguptausa/
🔗Robert Kramer: linkedin.com/in/robert-kramer-58239b22/
🔗Thomas Wieberneit: linkedin.com/in/thomaswieberneit/
🔗Jon W. Hansen: linkedin.com/in/jwhansen/
🔗John Santaferraro: linkedin.com/in/johnsantaferraro/
Background Soundtrack: Away From You – Mauro Somm
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