Alex Toussaint

Enterprise software sales isn’t about speed. It’s about alignment. When frontline users, IT, finance, and the C‑suite are aligned, deals move, commits are made. When they aren’t, no amount of pressure fixes it.

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Excited to share the incredible outcomes from real deployments at The Citation Group with #Devin 🚀 - 85% faster legacy app refresh (3 months → 2 weeks) - 271 PRs merged with an 80% merge rate - Backlog items cleared without adding headcount - 50% improvement in engineering efficiency - Business Analysts now submitting bug fixes and PRs directly These results highlight how GenAI is moving beyond productivity gains to fundamentally change how teams build and ship software. It’s time to go autonomous with Cognition, free up effort and focus on high-impact, high-value work. Full case study: https://lnkd.in/gbsUqxff

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Excited to share that MuleSoft Agent2Agent (A2A) Support is now available. As AI agents become more capable, the next big challenge is helping them work together. A2A Support helps solve that — enabling secure, scalable collaboration between agents across complex enterprise systems. This release is a big step toward building coordinated, multi-agent ecosystems with governance, visibility, and control at the core. More on how it works and what’s next:

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Over the years, we’ve seen enterprise SaaS stacks grow wider while execution keeps slowing down. Teams add tools faster than they retire them, and the complexity quietly adds up. That’s the problem Hexaware’s Zero License is designed to solve—by replacing bloated SaaS workflows with agentic AI in months, not years. The result is simpler stacks, lower license costs, and faster execution.  #Hexaware #ZeroLicense #Innovation #SimplifySaaS #AgenticAI Srikrishna Ramakarthikeyan Vinod Chandran Vikash Jain Ghananeel Gondhali Preethi Sekhar VIVEK ARYA https://lnkd.in/en4XrVwH

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Excellent interview from CNBC with Rick Sherlund on why enterprise SaaS stocks are down. What we are witnessing is the early stages of a foundational transformation of enterprise software via new AI-Native platforms. Across most business functions Agentic AI is able to reduce the heavily human powered workflows that current enterprise software requires. Remember, most of the leading enterprise software platforms were architected in the early 90s based on architectures that were prevalent then. Rick also speaks to the power of ecosystems - referencing OpenAI's rapidly growing App ecosystem as a key competitive advantage over other LLMs - akin to the early days of Microsoft and Oracle building vast application ecosystems and more recently Apple's app store. Specifically in the domain of Commerce Marketing DaVinci Commerce has been reinventing how commerce marketing is currently executed by using Agentic AI to do the following: ❇️ Generate dynamic product template ads and content using agents to combine brand elements, brand/retailer compliance requirements etc. and training on past creatives ❇️ Personalize ads and content using agentic AI to automate product and audience combinations ❇️ Orchestrate, Deliver and Optimize ads and content to Convert consumers across paid, owned and AI media platforms The next 10 years in large enterprises will resemble the early 90s when the first big software boom occured due to the availability of cheaper compute (HP, Sun etc.) and software development tools from Microsoft and data platforms from Oracle and others - the prior generation was mainframe computers and COBOL code - expensive, slow and only available to a few enterprises. The next 10 years will see a similar boom, this time powered by LLMs, vibecoding, coding assistants and Agentic AI. https://lnkd.in/gDgjdMt7

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We're thrilled to announce our strategic partnership with ServiceNow. This collaboration combines NICE's AI-powered customer service automation with ServiceNow's enterprise workflow solutions, delivering a seamless, end-to-end customer service experience. Together, we're eliminating service gaps and driving smarter, faster resolutions. Read the press release for more details: https://bit.ly/44ZU4iC #AI #CX #CustomerService #Automation

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Big news for teams building real time systems on Oracle Cloud. DeltaStream is now partnering with the Oracle Cloud team to make streaming analytics on OCI Streaming with Apache Kafka simple and operationally efficient. If you are building event driven systems on Oracle Cloud and want faster time to value from your streaming data, this partnership is worth a look. Read the full partner blog here: https://lnkd.in/gcv3Kyfg Thanks to the DeltaStream team (Hojjat Jafarpour, Rachel Pedreschi, Krishna Raman) and our partners at Oracle (Jason Wilcox, Abhishek Bhaumik, Chris Sullivan, Suresh Patibandla) for helping to kick off this collaboration. #PartnerEcosystem #OracleCloud #OCI #Kafka #RealTimeData #StreamingAnalytics #AIInfrastructure #DeltaStream #DataEngineering #Flink

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Today, ServiceNow has completed its acquisition of Veza. We at GV (Google Ventures) are incredibly proud to have supported Tarun Thakur, Maohua Lu Ph.D, and Robert Whitcher on this journey. They had identified early on that Authorization was the missing piece and had the foresight to focus on permissions and entitlements, the purest form of access. It was a problem that everyone had but few had truly solved... As we enter the AI Era, Enterprises need to govern and manage both AI agent and human access to systems. This timely combination connects Veza's comprehensive Access Graph with ServiceNow's AI platform, empowering enterprises to scale access visibility and controls to protect all customers. I am excited for what comes next. Phil Venables, Suresh Vasudevan, Puneet Agarwal, Eric Wolford, Dave Zilberman, Aaron Jacobson, Jake Seid, Adam Fletcher, Chris Nims, Elena Zislin, Rich Dandliker, Amit Zavery, John Aisien, Philip Kirk

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Starburst has always believed in providing customers with the freedom of choice. Nowhere is this more true than the emerging developments around interoperable compute among data platforms. Recently, I sat down with Snowflake’s Ryan C. Green to talk about the Open Semantic Interchange (OSI), an open, vendor-neutral standard for sharing semantic models across AI, BI, and analytics tools. OSI gives customers a common, open way to define and share business metrics. This helps them stay consistent across dashboards, notebooks, and machine learning models, no matter which tools they use. For Starburst, this furthers one of our core goals. Choice. Customers should be able to keep one trusted set of business definitions inside their Snowflake environment while still having the freedom to choose the tools that work best for them. OSI helps make that possible. It marks an important step in bringing Starburst’s engine to Snowflake-interoperable compute. The video from my chat with Ryan is coming soon 👀 In the meantime, you can get more details from our recent press release: https://lnkd.in/ev2XGB4u #OpenSemanticInterchange #OSI #Interoperability #AI #Data #Snowflake #Starburst

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