Derek du Preez

Samsara's partnership with VDO on Smart Compliance demonstrates how the vendor is using its extensive data collection and network effects to move beyond safety into regulated operational domains.

Pfizer's Conor Riordan explains how the pharmaceutical giant uses Celonis across 200+ markets to drive toward 95% order automation, guided by a strict "process before technology" philosophy.

At Celosphere 2025 in Munich, the process intelligence vendor acknowledged the AI hype cycle is deflating, but argued that operational context - not more models - is the missing ingredient for enterprise AI success

Busie's experience building a charter transportation platform from scratch on Confluent's streaming infrastructure demonstrates what becomes possible when organizations adopt data products principles without legacy constraints—offering a reference point for enterprises

Why the shift from 'system of record' to 'system of context' matters for enterprise AI success

Confluent is positioning itself as the "context layer for enterprise AI" with new capabilities that aim to solve the problem plaguing generative AI investments—lack of fresh, trustworthy data—by unifying real-time streaming, batch processing, and AI workflows into a single platform.

Confluent reported Q3 2025 subscription revenue growth of 19% to $286 million and cloud revenue growth of 24% to $161 million, with expanding margins and accelerating customer adoption metrics positioning the data streaming vendor for its annual Current event in New Orleans this week.

Serafin is leaving his successors to execute on a strategy that bets organizations will need to measure quality across AI-driven interactions.

At Oracle AI World, Larry Ellison delivered a keynote blending grand AI vision with Oracle's practical enterprise solution: using RAG and vectorization to let companies safely apply AI models to their private data without exposing it, leveraging Oracle's full-stack control of infrastructure, databases, and applications.

DHL Supply Chain consolidated five ERPs and 30+ finance applications across 55 countries onto Oracle Fusion Cloud while simultaneously regionalizing its finance operations into centralized hubs, achieving a 60% reduction in applications and 85% reduction in customizations. It is now deploying AI agents to automate labor-intensive processes.