Enterprise CEOs are piling too much AI pressure on their CIOs. Why Rimini Street's Seth Ravin wants to bring more realism as part of his firm's Act 2

It’s two decades since Seth Ravin launched Rimini Street and in that time the firm has not been afraid to take on the enterprise establishment, perhaps most obviously in its 19 year legal battle with Oracle which was finally settled this summer, or to challenge established worldviews and practices. To date it’s specialized in doing this in the ERP market, the thrust of what Ravin dubs “Act 1”; now, for Act 2, it’s setting its attention on being just as disruptive a force in the AI space.

Freed from the Oracle litigation shadow, Rimini Street approaches this second act as a global business boasting recurring revenues of over $400 million and with 20 years of history behind it might be regarded as part of the tech establishment itself. But Ravin is approaching the next 20 with the same critical eye on AI as he brought to ...