Amble: Postgres and APIs cannot easily replace SAP's business logic
Seema Amble · Software in the Age of Agents | The a16z Show · Jul 7, 2026 · at 0:32
Seema Amble, partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), refutes the notion that simple modern database architecture and APIs can easily displace legacy enterprise software like SAP.
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“Misconception right now is that you can just have, you know, Postgres database and APIs, and then bam, like you can replace SAP. That's like absolutely not true. That piece around the logic and everything else that is in captured in SAP is way, way more important than the fact that like, oh, this data just happens to be in this database.”
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