Executive Intelligence podcast - Sage CTO Aaron Harris on how he built a different kind of AI for finance (and why SaaS is not dead!)

July 15, 2017 was not a good day for me. That was the day Sage acquired Intacct. I admired Intacct's multi-tenant architectural purity, and Intacct's intense focus on the problems facing finance teams.

But I was in for a surprise: this turned out to be one of the most improbable enterprise software acquisitions of all time - and Sage CTO Aaron Harris has been right in the middle of it.

But now Harris is confronted with the disruption of agentic AI - and the viral notion that SaaS is dead. During our podcast recording, Harris would not let that point slip by:

I would love to take a minute on the 'SaaS is dead' comment. What a great example of how evangelists need to create stories and drama, right? I think SaaS as a business model may be on its way out - and I mean in particular the pricing and ...