Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans

The Impact of AI on Workday, Oracle, SAP and Enterprise Strategy I Tinder on Customers


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Episode 48 | Enterprise Innovation Meets AI Power

The Big Themes:

  • Workday's Strengths: Workday is carving a strong niche in HR and financial data management, two areas ripe for innovation through AI. The company has identified talent management, recruiting, and onboarding as key areas where AI can drive efficiency and improve decision-making. This emphasis on HR tech makes Workday attractive to organizations looking to modernize their HR processes.
  • Adoption Challenges: One of the biggest challenges in 2025 for AI in the enterprise software space will be customer adoption. Whether it's overcoming resistance to change, integrating new systems with legacy platforms, or ensuring employees have the necessary skills to use AI effectively, the road to widespread AI adoption can be bumpy. Vendors must provide practical, easy-to-understand use cases that demonstrate AI's value.
  • Oracle's Complex Implementations: Oracle’s enterprise solutions are often criticized for their complexity, particularly when it comes to implementation. The flexibility that Oracle provides means customers can tailor solutions to fit their specific needs, but this level of customization often requires substantial technical expertise and time. Oracle’s challenge will be to find a balance between maintaining this flexibility and simplifying the implementation process.

The Big Quote: “AI has to be able to cross multiple parts in multiple applications to synthesize all that information together. AI makes it easier for these systems to have integration, so to speak, as long as the provisioning is all within the same suite of products . . . For customers, having everything under the SAP umbrella or the Oracle umbrella or the Workday umbrella across multiple lines of business is, in the age of AI, going to be really helpful, because then your agents are able to be that much more effective."

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