408: Strategically Extend Your Enterprise Applications, with Relish
The guest is Ryan Walicki, co-founder of the software brand Relish. He began his career in procurement by accident while working at a bank and subsequently spent 15 years in consulting, deploying technology solutions and witnessing procurement's evolution into a strategic function. This experience inspired him to co-found Relish, an app-based company designed to extend and enhance existing enterprise software rather than replace it. Walicki is passionate about collaboration, using AI to solve specific business challenges, and creating a better customer experience by automating processes and bridging software gaps.
Today I’m joined by innovative software brand, Relish. They’ve done the development so you don’t have to; and they’re asking you to say ‘no’ to expensive middleware, because they’ve got the connection ready to go!
Relish apps strategically extend enterprise applications to maximize investment. With an understanding of enterprise software gaps and challenges, Relish is obsessed with building a scalable solution to remedy them, to simplify the complex and bridge those gaps.
Today Ryan Walicki, co-founder and CEO at Relish, will be talking all about Relish and what they do; why existing enterprise solutions rarely cover all bases; how AI is eclipsing manual processes; and exactly why customers are relishing this leading brand’s solutions.
Guest bio:
Ryan is an entrepreneur at heart, striving to solve the most difficult business problems. After dedicating the early part of his career to enterprise applications operations and consulting, Ryan has spent the last several years focused on developing solutions to fill enterprise software gaps and enhance the user experience.
The story behind the brand name Relish.
Ryan’s background, his love of procurement, and his journey to co-founding Relish.
An overview of Relish – who they are, what they do, and how they help their customers.
The ideal client for Relish.
Ryan’s perspective on why enterprise solutions rarely meet all requirements; the biggest enterprise software challenges; and how those challenges have been compounded by the industry changes we’ve seen over the last few years.
How Relish are working to simplify processes, extend solutions, and bridge gaps in order to complement and enhance enterprise software.
Why Relish is so passionate about collaboration, partnering with some of the industry’s biggest names to create ecosystems that drive success for everyone.
The rapid evolution of AI, and how Relish uses it to help clients streamline and enhance their processes.
Customer experience, and the importance of creating an effective chain of solutions for your customer, and your customer’s customer.
A case study showing how Relish helped a global financial institution to solve its invoice challenges, increasing automation from 24% to over 95%, streamlining its source-to-pay process, and boosting its visibility and process speed.
Ryan’s hockey team, and whether or not they’ll be making the finals!
What the future holds for Relish, and for the industry. “The time between point A and point B keeps getting shorter, because innovation is happening fast… We’re outgrowing applications very quickly.”
Resources & Links Mentioned
- Head over to Relish’s website now to find out more, and discover how they could help you too. You can also connect with Relish and keep up to date with the latest over on LinkedIn, YouTube and X (Twitter), or you can connect with Ryan on LinkedIn.
- If you enjoyed this conversation and want to hear more about procurement, check out The Three Biggest Challenges For Procurement – And What To Do About Them, Women In Supply Chain™: Procurement Leader, Stephany Lapierre on Using Supplier Data to Empower a More Connected, Diverse Supply Chain or 243: Reinventing Freight Procurement with Emerge.
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