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The Orchestration Layer in Enterprise AI Just Got Named. It Has a Gemini Logo on It.

04.27.26 7:30 PM - By Thomas Wieberneit - Comment(s)

What Google Cloud Next 2026 actually told us about the titan pecking order

Google Cloud Next 2026 wrapped last week. The official version of the story is the one Google wanted you to read: 260 announcements, 1,302 customer use cases, the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, eighth-generation TPUs, a $75...

The Agent Wars Are Over. The Substrate Wars Just Started

04.19.26 4:27 PM - By Thomas Wieberneit - Comment(s)

Three titan announcements in two weeks reveal what enterprise software vendors are actually fighting over in 2026, and it is not agents.

If you have been tracking enterprise AI announcements through 2025, you have been watching a race about agent counts. How many prebuilt agents. How many industry-sp...

The vCon Reality Check: Moving Beyond Generative Hype to Actual Conversational Architecture

04.15.26 11:36 PM - By Thomas Wieberneit - Comment(s)

Welcome to Reality. Leave Your "AI Magic" at the Door.

The AI hype train is moving at terminal velocity, but the tracks are missing. We have vendors pitching artificial general intelligence that will solve world peace, and executives panicking because they think a conversational wrapper aro...

Beyond the Buzzword: Sugar's Bet on Precision Selling and the ERP-CRM Bridge

04.15.26 1:50 AM - By Thomas Wieberneit - Comment(s)

There is a moment in every technology cycle where a vendor decides the best way to signal relevance is to put the current buzzword in its name. We seem to be in that moment.

SugarCRM, the mid-market CRM vendor backed by Accel-KKR, just rebranded to SugarAI. The company declared that CRM as a category...

AI in Q1 2026: Less Magic, More Context, and the Death of the Outbound SDR

04.10.26 12:25 AM - By Thomas Wieberneit - Comment(s)

Welcome to the second quarter of 2026. The dust of the generative AI explosion seems to have finally settled, so actual business realities can be seen. For the last few years, the enterprise software market has been drowning in vendor promises of AI magic. Now, companies are waking up to the hard tr...

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