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The AI Content Trap: Multiplying Mediocrity at Scale

05.06.26 9:43 AM - By Thomas Wieberneit - Comment(s)

The AI Content Trap: Multiplying Mediocrity at Scale

Marketing has always suffered from a volume addiction; however, the advent of generative AI has turned a bad habit into a terminal condition. In the recent discussion with Volker Hildebrand in our CRMKonvo, we explored the uncomfortable reality tha...

SAP's Double Acquisition: How Dremio and Prior Labs Complete a Data Strategy the Competition Can't Easily Match

05.04.26 1:14 PM - By Thomas Wieberneit - Comment(s)

On May 4, 2026, SAP announced two acquisitions in the same breath: Dremio, an Apache Iceberg-native agentic data lakehouse, and Prior Labs, a pioneer of Tabular Foundation Models. Neither acquisition is exotic. Together, they are contributing to the most coherent enterprise AI platform strategy any ...

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...

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...

The Contact Center Is Dead: Long Live the Operations Layer

03.25.26 4:54 PM - By Thomas Wieberneit - Comment(s)

We have been lying to ourselves since, well, basically since forever. We placed customer support agents into a padded room called the "contact center," handed them a ticketing system, and told them to keep the angry people away from the rest of the business. We tracked average handle times...

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