SAP Fieldglass

I'd gone to grad school at Booth.

I'd gotten into angel investing and venture capital and just the startup scene in Chicago from like 08 to 10 and then into that kind of nexus was the rise of Groupon, rise of Grubhub, Cleverson, Fieldglass, you know, name your favorite company from that era.

And, you know, the big story was Groupon was going to go get acquired by Google, right? Right.

And the narrative as it goes is that Groupon said, no, Google, we would rather stay independent and we'll go public.

Welcome to the Autonomous Enterprise Podcast.

You are General Manager and Chief Product and Technology Officer for SAP Ariba and SAP Fieldglass.

So every euro, dollar, pound and any other currency that an urgent organization spends on goods, services and external workforce runs through the products your team builds.

And right now, AI agents are beginning to source suppliers.

Thanks a lot for sharing this, Fang.

And you are also sitting at the intersection of three historically separate spend categories.

So we have direct and indirect procurement via SAP Ariba, and we also have the external workforce via SAP Fieldglass.

So really, most of the organizations still manage these in silos.