On this episode of Future Finance, hosts Paul Barnhurst and Glenn Hopper sit down with Franz Faerber—former SAP EVP and architect of HANA, now co-founder of Lensing—to unpack why he chose the hardest problem in enterprise software: rebuilding ERP from the ground up. Franz shares the founder moment (“once-in-a-lifetime” chance), how Live Sandbox changes implementation and ops, and why accounting as the true system-of-record is non-negotiable. They dig into generative AI’s real impact—compressing timelines from “years to months” (including a full inventory management module built in ~4.5 months)—plus integration strategy, personalization at scale, and leading with clear vision over consensus.
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AI ERP Innovation for Financial Executives to Disrupt Legacy Software with Franz Faerber
On this episode of Future Finance, hosts Paul Barnhurst and Glenn Hopper sit down with Franz Faerber—former SAP EVP and architect of HANA, now co-founder of Lensing—to unpack why he chose the hardest problem in enterprise software: rebuilding ERP from the ground up. Franz shares the founder moment (“once-in-a-lifetime” chance), how Live Sandbox changes implementation and ops, and why accounting as the true system-of-record is non-negotiable. They dig into generative AI’s real impact—compressing timelines from “years to months” (including a full inventory management module built in ~4.5 months)—plus integration strategy, personalization at scale, and leading with clear vision over consensus.
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