
In this moment, excerpted from the Keynote Fireside Chat session with sa.global, Stephen James, CEO, sa.global, recounts the promises of ERP that were never fulfilled and the potential of AI that enables earlier developments to have new success.

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Key Takeaways
- The vision of ERP: The initial concept of ERP was the idea of being hyper-automated, having visibility in your business, having your hands on levers, and steering the business into the future. However, ERP never really delivered on this vision.
- Potential of AI: After being in the ERP world for several years, James was excited to see the potential of AI to deliver on what ERP was supposed to be.
- Lift and shift: James invested in a group that built its own copilots for the legal industry, but struggled to gain traction from that. Then, with the AI boom, the tools that they had built were able to be lifted and shifted into this new context to do amazing things for customers.
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