AI DevOps Podcast Savino Carlone: ERP Systems - Episode 391
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Mar 2, 2026 Savino Carlone, a 25-year backend developer and educator from Turin who leads the web-based ERP Fattuto and co-leads Torino .NET, discusses ERP fundamentals and modeling company processes. He talks about architecting one product for many companies. He covers testing strategies, UX shifts toward mobile, and using retrieval-augmented generation to let AI surface and act on ERP data.
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Stay Curious Like A 25 Year Old
- Stay curious and avoid becoming complacent; keep learning as technologies shift from DOS to web to AI.
- Savino says treating yourself like a 25-year-old developer helps you adapt across decades of platform changes.
ERP Models The Whole Company Process
- An ERP models a company's end-to-end business process rather than isolated features.
- Savino explains ERP links ideas to orders, transport documents, invoices, customers, goods, prices, and discounts into a single lifecycle model.
Single Database Enables Gradual Feature Adoption
- Use a single shared database to support many company sizes and feature usage levels.
- Savino describes one database where customers may use 60–90% of features, letting users discover capabilities gradually.
