In this podcast episode of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:
- NVIDIA Strikes an Agentic Pose with Llama Nemotron
- NVIDIA Launches a Laser Show with Photonics Switches
- NVIDIA, Google, Disney Take on Reality with Physical AI
- NVIDIA Open Sourcing cuOPT
- Adobe Summit (How Adobe Can Regain its AI Mojo)
- Stop It; Operational Efficiency Is Not Innovation
- Research Says Teamwork and AI Make the Dream Work Even Better
- We Needed an Executive Order on IT Procurement?
- SAP Predicts Data Entry Will Disappear By 2027
Buzzsprout Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2319034/episodes/16855327
For this video presentation of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess the biggest tech issues for the CIO office:
- NVIDIA Strikes an Agentic Pose with Llama Nemotron
- NVIDIA Launches a Laser Show with Photonics Switches
- NVIDIA, Google, and Disney Take on Reality with Physical AI
- NVIDIA Open Sourcing CuOPT
- Adobe Summit and How Adobe Can Regain its AI Mojo
- Stop it. Operational Efficiency is Not Innovation.
- Research Says Teamwork and AI Make the Dream Work Even Better
- We Needed an Executive Order on IT Procurement?
- SAP Predicts Data Entry Will Disappear By 2027
NVIDIA Strikes an Agentic Pose with Llama Nemotron
NVIDIA launched the Llama Nemotron models to support agentic AI. Some of the biggest names in tech like Microsoft, SAP, ServiceNow, Accenture, and Deloitte have already committed to using models either to support or augment their current AI efforts.
We wonder if every tech vendor will end up with their own tweaked versions of Llama that end up fragmenting the market 100 different ways?
NVIDIA Press Release: https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-launches-family-of-open-reasoning-ai-models-for-developers-and-enterprises-to-build-agentic-ai-platforms
CIO Dive’s Lindsey Wilkinson: https://www.ciodive.com/news/Nvidia-gtc-llama-nemotron-model-family-ai-agent-development/742994/?utm_source=AmalgamInsights
NVIDIA Launches a Laser Show with Photonics Switches
NVIDIA launches silicon photonics networking switches as part of the NVIDIA Spectrum-X Photonics Ethernet and NVIDIA Quantum-X Photonics InfiniBand platforms. If you had told us a few years ago, that Nvidia would bring out the fastest networking equipment for the enterprise, we would have wondered what you were smoking. Charles explains the business logic while Hyoun wonders how long networking providers will continue to be asleep at the wheel.
Optics.org: https://optics.org/news/16/3/26
NVIDIA, Google, and Disney Take on Reality with Physical AI
NVIDIA is also working on physical AI with Google on both AI Robotics and in creating an open-source physics engine. The latter effort also includes Disney Research, well known for translating cutting-edge research into customer experiences. Will this reality-simulating exercise make its way into cars or mass transit?
NVIDIA Open Sourcing CuOPT
NVIDIA opens the floodgates for a well-known analytic use case by open sourcing its cuOPT massively parallelized decision optimization engine. As market leaders including FICO and IBM have already committed to this engine, the strategy seems clear to drive demand for GPUs. Hyoun and Charles discuss how this execution demonstrates NVIDIA’s focus in use cases in a market that often struggles to get past nonsensical naming structures.
NVIDIA: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/cuopt-open-source/
Adobe Summit and How Adobe Can Regain its AI Mojo
We think Adobe has been a vanguard of AI adoption and innovation, but the tech market at large doesn’t appreciate this role. At Adobe Summit, the tech behemoth made its case for Adobe Experience Platform to be the foundation of a new wave of AI agents for marketers and creatives. Charles and Hyoun debate what else Adobe needs to do to make a case for increased Adobe adoption.
Adobe on Agents: https://news.adobe.com/news/2025/03/adobe-brings-ai-agents-to-adobe-experience-cloud
Adobe on Gen AI: https://news.adobe.com/news/2025/03/adobe-firefly-services-custom-models-unlock-on-brand-content-production
CIO.com coverage: https://www.cio.com/article/3847382/adobe-makes-agentic-ai-push-with-agent-orchestrator-purpose-built-agents.html
Stop it. Operational Efficiency is Not Innovation
Strategy consultant Michael Bertha argues that by addressing the “missing middle,” companies can bridge the gap between ideas and execution to innovate. Charles and Hyoun discuss how efficiency and innovation approaches can be quantified and framed.
CIO.com, Michael Bertha : https://www.cio.com/article/3847331/operational-efficiency-is-not-transformation.html
Research Says Teamwork and AI Make the Dream Work Even Better
Professor Ethan Mollick and a bevy of colleagues from Harvard and P&G came out with a fascinating report showing how AI productivity helps both individuals and groups. Hyoun and Charles dig into this study of P&G revenue and research professionals. Don’t miss Charles’ four-part framework for AI innovation starting with why expert augmentation is a core starting point.
One Useful Thing – Ethan Mollick: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-cybernetic-teammate
We Needed an Executive Order on IT Procurement?
It is rare that IT procurement reaches the level of either a CEO or president’s executive memos and public statements. But in 2025, IT procurement has finally reached that stage with a new executive order designed to provide directive action for federal government operations. Hyoun and Charles discuss where this EO makes sense and where it might not pass standard enterprise logic.
White House Executive Order: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/eliminating-waste-and-saving-taxpayer-dollars-by-consolidating-procurement/
The Register’s Brandon Vigliarolo: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/21/trump_orders_it_contracts_consolidated
SAP Predicts Data Entry Will Disappear By 2027
SAP CEO Christian Klein predicts manual data entry will disappear from SAP by 2027 as SAP continues its focus on trying to look easier and simpler to use. Both Hyoun and Charles have their separate concerns with this messaging as Charles wonders how practical it is and Hyoun wonders if it fits into SAP customer desires.
CIO’s Ji-Hyun Lee: https://www.cio.com/article/3850705/sap-ceo-christian-klein-ai-transformation-in-korean-enterprises-will-be-driven-by-business-data-cloud-and-jules.html