
For nearly four decades, Kevin Maddock has worked the quiet machinery of enterprise software - renewals, support and the patient arithmetic of keeping customers. His career is a study in why the second sale can matter more than the first.

After two decades building SpearMC around Oracle, PeopleSoft and customer trust, Marcus Bode sold the company and stepped into a new assignment at Mythics. His other field of play is quite literal.
Mythics built a durable business in the least glamorous corner of cloud computing: moving the databases, payroll systems and public records that cannot be allowed to blink. Now private-equity backing and a pair of acquisitions are turning an Oracle specialist into a full-stack modernization shop.

After two decades inside enterprise software, Astute Business Solutions co-founder Arvind Rajan is betting that the useful future of AI will arrive through live demos, trusted data and upgrades to systems companies already depend on.
Astute Business Solutions has built a business around an unfashionable but valuable idea: the old ERP may not need replacing. Its next act is to make those deeply embedded systems useful in the AI era.
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.