We have reached a point in the hype cycle where "AI" is being sprinkled on enterprise software like a seasoning on a cheap steak: it masks the poor quality of the underlying meat but doesn't make it more nutritious. In the latest CRMKonvo, Bhawani Shankar and the CRMKonvo team tore into th...
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SAP Draws a Perimeter around Agentic AI and What That Means for the Rest of US
The most consequential enterprise AI governance document published this year arrived in late April with surprisingly little fanfare. SAP's updated API Policy, version 4/2026, is a short document in plain English. The clause that is most interesting is Section 2.2.2. It restricts how autonomous and g...
The Agent Wars Are Over. The Substrate Wars Just Started
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...
Beyond the Buzzword: Sugar's Bet on Precision Selling and the ERP-CRM Bridge
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
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...

