The Enterprise Edge

Mark Vigoroso, Founder and CEO, The Enterprise Edge | ex-CEO, CMO, CRO, CCO

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. The Enterprise Edge - Gary Hodsden, Head of IT Digital Products and Projects at Weatherbys Digital Solutions

    5D AGO

    The Enterprise Edge - Gary Hodsden, Head of IT Digital Products and Projects at Weatherbys Digital Solutions

    What do 255 years of thoroughbred bloodlines have to do with the cutting edge of enterprise AI? More than you'd think. In this episode of The Enterprise Edge, host Mark Vigoroso sits down with Gary Hodsden, Head of IT Digital Products andProjects at Weatherbys Digital Solutions - the UK firm that has been the backbone of global horse racing data since 1773. Twelve years into his Weatherbys tenure, Gary shares candid insights on how his team built a modern, Microsoft-first, low-code platform called Salio (Latin for "to leap") that is catapulting one of the world's most data-rich but technologically archaic industries into the cloud and AI age - across racing jurisdictions from Saudi Arabia to Germany, navigating data sovereignty rules along the way. Even more fascinating: Gary's team is training a custom LLM on centuries of breeding records so that owners and breeders can simply ask which stallion is most likely to produce a Group 1 winner. But beyond the tech, Gary delivers some of the most honest and practical wisdom you'll hear from any IT leader: 70% of every project lives or dies on people and process, not the platform. If you lead technology strategy at any organization - Fortune 50 or SMB - and you're trying to cut through the enterprise AI noise to deliver business outcomes, stream this episode now and be sure to LIKE, SHARE and COMMENT!

    39 min
  2. Clip from The Enterprise Edge - "The Vision Shift: Reimagining Supply Chain Planning"

    6D AGO

    Clip from The Enterprise Edge - "The Vision Shift: Reimagining Supply Chain Planning"

    "There's more [supply chain] turbulence ...from a macroeconomic, political, and climate perspective; there's a lot more events than we had in the past. So we need that agility. And ultimately we need to serve our customer... But traditionally we were looking at OTIF (On Time in Full), but now, especially since we partnered with Alloy.ai, In-Stock is the most important metric because the most important thing is to add product on the shelf for the consumers. That's what drives us and that's what drives our [supply chain] planning and execution today. The real metric that we need to follow is In Stock because you can have a perfect OTIF, but the shelf could be empty." -- Xavier Duprat, Vice President, Supply Chain Planning & Fulfillment at Cascades. Stream it now and be sure to LIKE, SHARE and COMMENT! Full episode here: https://youtu.be/1VPdWRbDR4k?si=yO422lBRFASNePJk.

    4 min
  3. The Enterprise Edge, w/SAP | Series: Supply Chain Planning Reimagined | Ep 1: The Value Shift: Reimagining Supply Chain Planning

    APR 28

    The Enterprise Edge, w/SAP | Series: Supply Chain Planning Reimagined | Ep 1: The Value Shift: Reimagining Supply Chain Planning

    If your supply chain planning still runs on monthly forecastreviews and flat-file data dumps, you're already behind - and this podcast explains exactly why. Supply Chain Planning Reimagined is a special series from The Enterprise Edge® in partnership with SAP, and episode 1 - The Vision Shift: Reimagining Supply Chain Planning -  brings together Xavier Duprat, VP of Supply Chain Planning at Cascades (a packaging and hygiene giant running SAP IBP since 2016), and Joel Beal, CEO and Co-Founder of Alloy.ai, whose platform ingestsreal-time POS and inventory signals from over 450 retailers. Together, they dismantle the myth that better supply and demand forecasting algorithms are the answer - the real boon, they argue, is better data, delivered daily. You'll hear how Cascades overhauled its entire sales and operations planning (S&OP) process across 25 North American plants and grew its business by 10%, while simultaneously improving retail in-stock rates, how AI agents are now catchingdistribution glitches in retailer systems that human teams would have missed entirely, and why the best supply chain professionals of the next decade won't be replaced by AI - they'll be the ones who learn to manage it. This isn'ttheoretical. It's a real supply chain planning transformation, already underway, with receipts. Stream it now, and be sure to LIKE, SHARE, and COMMENT! Trying to modernize your Supply Chain Planning? --https://events.sap.com/tee-supply-chain-planning-reimagined/en_us/home.html

    53 min
  4. EdgeBytes | Why Salesforce Thinks You’ll Never Log Into Your CRM Again | 4.21.26

    APR 21

    EdgeBytes | Why Salesforce Thinks You’ll Never Log Into Your CRM Again | 4.21.26

    Salesforce’s latest moves - Headless 360, Agent Fabric, FDE,and AgentExchange - aren’t product updates, they’re a coordinated shift in how enterprise software gets work done. The company is collapsing the distance between intent and execution by making CRM callable, composable, and governable by agents - not humans. With over $72B in RPO, Agentforce ARR up 169% year over year, and real-world deployments claiming production-ready agents in as littleas 12 days, Salesforce is betting that the next enterprise moat isn’t model performance - it’s execution density: how fast you can turn context into measurable work at scale. The competitive battleground is no longer UI or even AI capability in isolation - it’s whether a platform can orchestrate data,workflows, governance, and distribution into durable economic outcomes. Stream this timely episode now, and be sure to LIKE, SHARE, and COMMENT!

    16 min
  5. The Enterprise Edge - Mike Gugluizza, Director, Enterprise Business Applications, Accuray (SAP, NTT Data customer)

    APR 17

    The Enterprise Edge - Mike Gugluizza, Director, Enterprise Business Applications, Accuray (SAP, NTT Data customer)

    Mike Gugluizza, Director of Enterprise Business Applications at Accuray, has a masterclass to share on exactly how to unlock the power of AI - you have to earn it. Accuray builds AI-driven radiotherapy devices that target cancer cells to within one one-hundredth the width of a human hair, leaving surrounding healthy tissue untouched, and their on-device AI tracks tumor movement in real time by predicting how a patient's body will move based on breathing patterns. But this episode of The Enterprise Edge podcast isn't just about an innovative medical device - it's about the disciplined internal journey at $500M Accuray that made enterprise AI adoption possible. Mike walks through how Accuray escaped a decade of crippling over-customization on Microsoft Dynamics, spent nine months just cleaning their data before going live on SAP S/4HANA, and now sits at a remarkable 95% fit-to-standard - meaning they can absorb upgrades, adopt SAP Joule, and build AI agents without the technical debt that's quietly strangling most of their peers. He and team split the SI decision from the AMS decision and now enjoy a flexible partnership with NTT Data around ongoing SAP functionaland technical support, maintenance, and optimization. Mike is refreshingly candid about the gap between what AI vendors promise and what actually happens when you lift the hood. If you're an enterprise technology leader trying to figure out how to build a foundation that doesn't collapse the moment AI arrives, stream this episode now, and be sure to LIKE, SHARE & COMMENT!

    52 min
  6. The Enterprise Edge - Dr. John Oberg, Founder & CEO, Precina Health (Salesforce customer)

    APR 16

    The Enterprise Edge - Dr. John Oberg, Founder & CEO, Precina Health (Salesforce customer)

    What does it take to do what the entire medical establishment said couldn't be done? In this episode of The Enterprise Edge podcast, Dr. John Oberg - founder and CEO of Precina Health - lays out how he and his partner achieved something remarkable: in a pilot study of 50 Type 2 diabetes patients from rural, low-income communities, 49 reached full glycemic control within 12 weeks, and 83% stayed in control for the next two years. That's lowering A1C by one to one-and-a-half percent per month - compared to roughly 1% per year from GLP-1 medications. But the story doesn't stop at the clinic. Dr. Oberg reveals how Salesforce's Agentforce became the infrastructure backbone that let Precina scale without becoming a tech company - handling everything fromHIPAA-compliant billing automation to AI-powered provider training - while keeping the patient-provider relationship at the absolute center of care. He also takes on the AI-and-jobs debate head-on, offering one of the most grounded and historically informed perspectives you'll hear. If you're a healthcare executive, an enterprise technology leader, or anyone trying to make sense of where agentic AI is actually creating real-world value, stream this episode now, and be sure to LIKE, SHARE, and COMMENT!

    37 min
  7. The Enterprise Edge - John McDaniel, CIO, Trinity Health

    APR 14

    The Enterprise Edge - John McDaniel, CIO, Trinity Health

    What does it take to lead digital transformation inside a $900 million health system without losing your mind or your mission? In this episode of The Enterprise Edge, host Mark Vigoroso sits down with John McDaniel, CIO of Trinity Health, who is doing exactly that: running parallel implementations of Epic and Workday, decommissioning over 100 legacy applications, and building an AI governance framework that draws a precise, principled line between administrative AI(which Trinity is aggressively deploying to recover an estimated $36 million in ambulatory undercoding) and clinical AI (where FDA vetting is non-negotiable). McDaniel brings a rare perspective - nearly five decades in enterprise technology, starting at NCR in 1977 - and distills it into ideas that cut through the hype: "thin slicing" every vendor claim down to its root cause impact, renaming IT the "Digital Transformation Group" to signal a fundamental shift in how technology serves the organization, and insisting that successful implementations are won or lost not on thesophistication of the technology, but on process design, data readiness, and stakeholder alignment. If you're a CIO, an aspiring technology leader, or anyone navigating the white-water rapids of enterprise AI - in healthcare or any other industry - join us for this practical episode. Stream it now, and LIKE, SHARE and COMMENT!

    38 min
  8. EdgeBytes | Enterprise AI Minus Friction: Turning Cost, Data, and Control into Value Velocity | 4.02.26

    APR 2

    EdgeBytes | Enterprise AI Minus Friction: Turning Cost, Data, and Control into Value Velocity | 4.02.26

    Three major enterprise tech vendor moves landed within daysof each other: SAP acquiring Reltio, IBM closing an $11 billion deal for Confluent, and IFS scrapping user-based pricing entirely - and the common thread is the removal of friction en route to enterprise AI value realization. This episode of EdgeBytes breaks down what each move actually means: SAPbetting that data integrity, not the AI model itself, is the real competitive moat; IBM assembling a real-time data backbone for its watsonx stack; and IFS making a fundamental argument that in an agentic world, you price the work, notthe workers. Taken together, they point to the same conclusion: enterprise AI stalls when cost, data, or execution create friction, and the tech vendors that remove that friction fastest will lead the next era of enterprise transformation.Stream this timely episode now, and be sure to LIKE, SHARE, and COMMENT!

    11 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
    53
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Mark Vigoroso, Founder and CEO, The Enterprise Edge | ex-CEO, CMO, CRO, CCO
  • Show Website
    The Enterprise Edge