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Miro Pivots From Whiteboard Tool To Enterprise AI Infrastructure

Miro is repositioning from a collaboration surface to an "AI decisioning layer"—a classic SaaS expansion play with substantial execution risk. The company is abandoning its defensible market position in digital whiteboarding to compete in enterprise AI orchestration, where it has no architectural advantages over incumbents like Salesforce, SAP, or purpose-built workflow platforms. The bet assumes sticky usage within design and product teams can extend into cross-functional decision workflows. But that requires solving a different problem—coordinating executives and operations teams—than the one that made Miro valuable: unstructured creative collaboration. Success means becoming indispensable for a new use case, not simply adding AI features to a whiteboard. Other horizontal tools have failed this transition.

SAP's AI Gateway Strategy Threatens Enterprise Flexibility

SAP is using updated API policies to restrict which AI tools and integrations enterprises can run on their systems. This creates vendor lock-in: CIOs lose procurement autonomy and AI teams face approval friction—the opposite of how enterprises are actually building AI stacks, with best-of-breed tools and third-party integrations. Forrester's pushback signals that enterprise software buyers are recognizing the cost of letting a single vendor become the infrastructure chokepoint.