The Enterprise Edge

Mark Vigoroso, Founder and CEO, The Enterprise Edge | ex-CEO, CMO, CRO, CCO
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Globally syndicated podcast on Spotify, Amazon, Apple, and iHeart Radio with 60,000+ cross-industry business and tech leaders learning from the world’s enterprise technology innovators and pace-setters - ISVs, ERPs, GSIs, PEs, VCs and end-user CEOs, CIOs, CTOs, COOs - as they race to incorporate software, automation, services and emerging technologies like generative and agentic AI, IoT, hybrid cloud infrastructure and even quantum computing to transform business functions across all industries. Want to be a podcast guest? Email us at vigtee5ai@gmail.com and join the conversation!

  1. EdgeBytes from The Enterprise Edge®: Frontier and Cowork: The Rise of AI Workforces and the Next Enterprise Architecture Paradigm | 3.11.26

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    EdgeBytes from The Enterprise Edge®: Frontier and Cowork: The Rise of AI Workforces and the Next Enterprise Architecture Paradigm | 3.11.26

    In this episode of EdgeBytes, Mark Vigoroso breaks down two moves reshaping the enterprise AI landscape: OpenAI's Frontier - already in play at Fortune 500 giants like Intuit, Uber, and State Farm, compressing six-week manufacturing cycles down to a single day - and Anthropic's Claude Cowork, the AI that doesn't just assist, it executes. We're not talkingchatbots. We're talking a three-layer AI workforce architecture: embedded agents inside your ERP and CRM, orchestration platforms spanning your entire tech stack, and digital knowledge workers handling strategy, analysis, andreporting like a tireless analyst who never sleeps. Mark also introduces Value Physics - a sharp new framework that reframes why most AI transformations fail (spoiler: it's not the model, it's the friction). Whether you're a CIO, a strategy leader, or just trying to make sense of where enterprise software is actually headed, this is the signal you've been waiting for. Watch it. Share it. Then ask yourself: what's slowing your AI value down?

    10 min
  2. EdgeBytes: The AI Compute Land Grab: Oracle’s $553B Signal | 3.10.26

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    EdgeBytes: The AI Compute Land Grab: Oracle’s $553B Signal | 3.10.26

    In this EdgeBytes episode, host Mark Vigoroso breaks down Oracle's blockbuster Q3 earnings report - including a staggering $553 billion in Remaining Performance Obligations, up 325% year over year - and explains why that number is far more than a financial headline. It's a forward signal that the enterprise AI market has shifted from experimentation to industrial-scale infrastructure commitment. Mark brings his unique Revenue Physics framework to decode what Oracle's customer wins - from Argonne National Laboratory to Louis Vuitton to SoftBank - reveal about the real mechanics of AI-driven growth: sovereign infrastructure, multi-cloud architecture, and the race for GPU capacity. Whether you're a CEO evaluating your AI strategy, a CIO rethinking your cloud architecture, or a CFO measuring the ROI of technology investment, this episode delivers the kind of rigorous, signal-over-noise analysis that turns complex earnings data into actionable business intelligence. Stream it now, and be sure to LIKE, SHARE and COMMENT!

    12 min
  3. EdgeBytes: How ServiceNow and SAP Are Rewiring Enterprise Value from AI Hype to Throughput | 3.09.26

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    EdgeBytes: How ServiceNow and SAP Are Rewiring Enterprise Value from AI Hype to Throughput | 3.09.26

    In this episode of EdgeBytes, we provide our measured analysis and recommendations based recent announcements from SAP and ServiceNow. ServiceNow is deploying autonomous agents in telecom and government with real,measurable results - Bell Canada's 25% faster customer response times and the City of Raleigh's 98% AI deflection rate - and SAP is making a bold organizational bet, creating a new Customer Value Group and appointing a Chief Customer Officer to collapse the wall between selling and delivering. But the deeper story connecting both moves can be clearly seen through the lens of Value Physics, the idea that enterprise value doesn't compound when AI is merelyinformative - it compounds when AI removes friction from the workflow itself. In Value Physics terms – encapsulated by the equation, Enterprise Value = [(Acceleration − Friction) / Mass] × Velocity - both ServiceNow and SAP are attacking the same variable: friction. We unpack what these moves reveal aboutwhere the enterprise stack is heading in 2026 - away from AI as a feature and toward AI as a governed operating model that is embedded, adopted, and economically captured. If you're a CEO, CIO, or CFO trying to turn AI investment into real operating leverage, this one's for you. Stream it now, and be sure to LIKE, SHARE, and COMMENT!

    13 min
  4. The Enterprise Edge - Daren Thayne, Founding CTO & EVP of Product, Domo

    MAR 3

    The Enterprise Edge - Daren Thayne, Founding CTO & EVP of Product, Domo

    What does the founding CTO and EVP of Product of a $300M+ data platform know that most enterprise leaders don't? In this episode of The Enterprise Edge podcast, host Mark Vigoroso cuts through the AI-for-BI noise with Daren Thayne - who has been at Domo since day one, and before that helped Ancestry.com leapfrog its competitors and eventually acquire them both. Daren doesn't deal in hype: he shares how Domo's engineers are using Claude Code and MCP to automate the unglamorous parts of development (e.g. JIRA tickets, build logs, pull requests) so senior engineers can finally operate at the level they were hired for; why "vibe coding" is transforming prototypes from PowerPoints into working demos that actually move the room; and why enterprises drowning in dashboards are asking the wrong questions entirely. His advice for any CIO or Chief Data Officer trying to navigate the chaos? Stop chasing AI features. Build the governed data foundation first, score a few wins, and watch your internal innovators hiding in Finance, Marketing, and HR do the rest. It's zero-fluff, real-world perspective from a tech leader who has been building at the frontier of enterprise data and intelligence for decades. Stream it now, and be sure to LIKE, SHARE and COMMENT!

    36 min
  5. EdgeBytes from The Enterprise Edge: AI Monetization, SaaS Panic, and What Salesforce & Workday Just Proved

    FEB 26

    EdgeBytes from The Enterprise Edge: AI Monetization, SaaS Panic, and What Salesforce & Workday Just Proved

    The "SaaS is dead" narrative has been making the rounds - but the numbers just told a very different story. In this episode ofEdgeBytes, we cut through the drama and go straight to the data: Salesforce just closed fiscal 2026 at $41.5 billion in revenue with $72.4 billion in contracted backlog, while Workday posted 13% full-year growth and nearly 20%cash flow expansion. These aren't the metrics of a dying category - they're the metrics of an industry evolving at speed. What's actually shifting is how value gets measured: Salesforce alone processed nearly 20 trillion tokens anddelivered 2.4 billion Agentic Work Units, signaling a fundamental reframe from software licenses to measurable labor execution. In this episode, we unpack what this means for CEOs, CIOs, and CFOs navigating the AI integration moment - why platform concentration risk is rising, why the middle tier of undifferentiated SaaS is genuinely vulnerable, and why the real story isn't collapse, it's consolidation. Stream now if you want signal over noise on where enterprise software is actually headed, and be sure to LIKE, SHARE and COMMENT!

    6 min
  6. The Enterprise Edge - Steven Birgfeld, VP, Information Systems & Technology, Blue Diamond Growers

    FEB 25

    The Enterprise Edge - Steven Birgfeld, VP, Information Systems & Technology, Blue Diamond Growers

    What does a 116-year-old almond cooperative and cutting-edge enterprise AI have in common? More than you'd expect. In this episode of The Enterprise Edge podcast, host Mark Vigoroso sits down with Steven Birgfeld, VP of Information Technology and Services at Blue Diamond Growers - the iconic brand behind Almond Breeze and those ubiquitous snack nuts - for a rare, candid look at enterprise transformation from the practitioner's seat. Steve pulls back the curtain on how one of America's most storied agricultural cooperatives, owned by nearly 3,000 California almond growers, is navigating its way through a full SAP ecosystem - S/4HANA Rise Private Cloud, IBP, BTP, and the newly adoptedBusiness Data Cloud - while simultaneously experimenting with embedded and agentic AI to revolutionize synchronized supply planning, crop forecasting, and manufacturing yield optimization. Steve shares how their marketing team issaving six figures per campaign using generative AI to identify the next trending global almond flavor, why a promising 20-year-dataset AI crop forecasting model ultimately couldn't outsmart Mother Nature, and how their CFO is redefining his team as data scientists rather than reporters of financialnews. If you've heard enough AI vision-casting from vendors, this is the episode you've been waiting for - a grounded, ROI-guided, value-first perspective from an enterprise tech leader in the trenches… or the orchards! Stream it now, and be sure to LIKE, SHARE and COMMENT!

    36 min
  7. The Enterprise Edge - Bob Cicero, Americas Future-Proofed Workplace Director, Cisco

    FEB 19

    The Enterprise Edge - Bob Cicero, Americas Future-Proofed Workplace Director, Cisco

    What if your office building could read the room - literally? In this episode of The Enterprise Edge podcast, host Mark Vigoroso sits down with Bob Cicero, Cisco's Americas Future-Proofed Workplace Director and a 25-year company veteran who joined the company during the dot-com boom and never stopped taking calculated risks. Bob pulls back the curtain on how Cisco's own flagship office in Penn One, New York achieved a 5X increase in collaboration spaces within the same 58,000 square feet - not by redesigning the furniture, but by putting technology first. He reveals why the humble badge swipe is the worst data source in corporate real estate, how Cisco's network infrastructure is now powering everything from desk sensors to real-time air quality monitoring, and why the companies that started collecting workplace data four years ago are now sitting on a goldmine as AI arrives to make sense of it all. From biometric wearables that could one day auto-adjust your meeting room's temperature mid-conversation, to budget-sharing breakthroughs between IT and facilities teams, this episode is a masterclass for any real estate, IT, or operations leader who's tired of paying for beautiful empty offices. Stream it now, and be sure to LIKE, SHARE and COMMENT!

    38 min
  8. EdgeBytes from The Enterprise Edge: Trust, Sovereignty, and the New Tech Security Mandate | Feb 17, 2026

    FEB 17

    EdgeBytes from The Enterprise Edge: Trust, Sovereignty, and the New Tech Security Mandate | Feb 17, 2026

    NEW EdgeBytes Episode from The Enterprise Edge: Trust is no longer a compliance checkbox. It's a strategic asset. At the recent 2026 Munich Security Conference, two announcements signal a turning point for enterprise AI, defense modernization, and digital sovereignty - and they deserve our attention and analysis.1. The Trusted Tech Alliance - 15 global tech giants (Microsoft, Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Anthropic, SAP, Ericsson, Nokia, and more) united around five verifiable principles for trusted, secure, transparent infrastructure. As Ericsson's CEO Börje Ekholm put it: "No single company or country can build a secure and trusted digital stack alone."2. SAP's Defense Innovation Hub - a purpose-built ecosystem where startups, academia, and defense organizations co-create solutions for resilient, mission-critical operations. The message is clear: software and data integrity are now front-line concerns, not back-office afterthoughts. The thread connecting both? The future of technology - from enterprise AI to national security - will be governed by trust frameworks and ecosystem cooperation, not unilateral control. This will reshape procurement policies, public-private partnerships, and geopolitical alliances for the next decade. Have a listen and let me know your thoughts: Which trust principle matters most in 2026 and beyond - transparency, supply-chain security, or cross-border interoperability, and why? Drop your take in the comments!

    6 min
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Globally syndicated podcast on Spotify, Amazon, Apple, and iHeart Radio with 60,000+ cross-industry business and tech leaders learning from the world’s enterprise technology innovators and pace-setters - ISVs, ERPs, GSIs, PEs, VCs and end-user CEOs, CIOs, CTOs, COOs - as they race to incorporate software, automation, services and emerging technologies like generative and agentic AI, IoT, hybrid cloud infrastructure and even quantum computing to transform business functions across all industries. Want to be a podcast guest? Email us at vigtee5ai@gmail.com and join the conversation!

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  • Creator
    Mark Vigoroso, Founder and CEO, The Enterprise Edge | ex-CEO, CMO, CRO, CCO
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    41
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    Clean
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    © Mark Vigoroso, Founder and CEO, The Enterprise Edge | ex-CEO, CMO, CRO, CCO
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    The Enterprise Edge