A certain level of chaos is healthy | Orbit an Hg Podcast

After 26 years at SAP building HANA, Franz Faerber left to start a competitor. In this conversation, he explains why ERP is overdue for reinvention — and why AI changes everything. His thesis: features are no longer defensible. What matters now is deep domain knowledge embedded into platforms that let customers adapt and generate their own software. We discuss Lensing’s Live Sandbox, fighting enterprise bureaucracy, and why AI may be the first real chance in decades for newcomers to out-innovate incumbents.