Watch more: Summer School With Worldpay’s Billi Jo Wright Merchants now expect business software to do more than manage workflows. They want it to drive revenue, accelerate cash flow, simplify payments and surface the insights needed to run smarter. That evolution formed the basis of...
For two decades, buying enterprise software meant accepting a vendor’s feature set, paying per seat and hiring specialists to manage the platform. For small businesses, that model often meant paying for capabilities they never used. AI coding tools are changing that calculation. Five startups and...
ServiceNow, SAP and Workday are drawing new lines around the customer data stored inside their platforms as external artificial intelligence (AI) agents begin to erode the per-seat pricing model that has defined enterprise software for two decades. Metered Layer Between Agents and Data ServiceNow made...
Software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies will need moats other than the complexity of writing software to preserve their businesses in the age of artificial intelligence that can code and write software, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Tuesday (May 5). Speaking during Anthropic’s livestreamed event The Briefing: Financial...
July 20, 2026
Watch more: Summer School With Worldpay’s Billi Jo Wright Merchants now expect business software to do more than manage workflows. They want it to drive revenue, accelerate cash flow, simplify payments and surface the insights needed to run smarter. That evolution formed the basis of the latest installment of the PYMNTS Summer School series, featuring […]
March 06, 2026
Stripe has introduced new artificial intelligence (AI)-focused metering and billing capabilities inside Stripe Billing, giving software companies infrastructure to charge for AI consumption the way cloud providers charge for compute:...
August 27, 2025
Imagine an HR manager looking for the PTO record of an employee. Instead of logging onto the HR dashboard and pulling up the worker’s profile, the manager asks an artificial...
July 16, 2025
Watch more: Stax Turns People Power Into Competitive Advantage as Margins Tighten In payments, innovation is both currency and challenge, and distinguishing oneself from the ever-growing crowd of FinTech disruptors...
May 06, 2026
Software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies will need moats other than the complexity of writing software to preserve their businesses in the age of artificial intelligence that can code and write software, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Tuesday (May 5). Speaking during Anthropic’s livestreamed event The Briefing: Financial Services, Amodei said companies of any significant size have other […]
April 14, 2026
UBS analysts see the latest artificial intelligence models from Anthropic and OpenAI as a threat to enterprise software companies, Seeking Alpha reported Tuesday (April 14). These observations were published by...
February 23, 2026
Software makers are reportedly delaying debt deals amid steeper borrowing costs and tighter lender scrutiny. This trend is happening amid mounting pressure from artificial intelligence, which has threatened the business...
February 17, 2026
Privately held software firms McAfee, Rocket Software, Perforce Software and Cloudera released their earnings to lenders ahead of schedule to reassure those lenders at a time when some are concerned...
