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Axel Allgeier and the Second Draft of Enterprise Software
Three decades after helping enterprise software travel across incompatible machines, Axel Allgeier is still chasing the same stubborn idea: complexity belongs in the architecture, not in the user's day.
Vito Solimene Built a Career Around What Happens Next
He spent decades inside the machinery of enterprise software. Then he helped start Nextworld to change the one habit the industry never quite shook: making every useful customization a future liability.
Kylee McVaney Learned Enterprise Software at the Copier - Then Returned to Rewrite It
She grew up inside the machinery of J.D. Edwards, left software to build institutions, and came back with a stubborn idea: enterprise systems should bend without breaking. Her other classroom is a dressage arena, where nerves travel straight down the reins.
ASIR Technologies
The former Oracle engineers behind ASIR Technologies built a consulting business around the systems enterprises cannot easily replace. Now their no-code ACRA platform is trying to make those systems far less painful to test, connect and operate.
Smart ERP Solutions
Smart ERP Solutions is a Pleasanton, California enterprise-software and consulting firm founded in 2005 by Oracle and PeopleSoft veterans. It builds configurable add-on solutions and delivers implementation, upgrade, managed-services, and cloud-migration work across Oracle Cloud, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, and E-Business Suite. Its flagship product, Smart Onboarding, automates pre-boarding, onboarding, and off-boarding with integrated Form I-9 and E-Verify. Serving 300+ clients across higher education, healthcare, finance, government, and manufacturing, the company was acquired by Mythics, LLC in April 2025 to expand global Oracle Cloud capability.
Darwin Thangappan
Darwin Thangappan is the CEO and founder of ASIR Technologies, a bootstrapped enterprise technology company headquartered in Milpitas, California, with development operations in Bangalore, India. A mechanical engineering graduate turned software entrepreneur, Darwin spent nine years at Oracle building and managing JD Edwards EnterpriseOne before launching ASIR Technologies in 2014. Under his leadership, the company has grown to 75+ employees and developed ACRA Suite, a 100% no-code automation platform that slashes regression testing time by 60% across JD Edwards, Oracle E-Business Suite, SAP, and Salesforce environments. Honored by Marquis Who's Who in 2025 for excellence in technology and product development, Darwin also holds a U.S. patent for computer user interface technology.