Kabir Nagrecha learned the enterprise software racket before he was old enough to drive.

Raised in London and California, he spent his childhood as the unofficial assistant to his father, who worked in high-level IT roles at firms like Jacobs Engineering, an American company specializing in large-scale construction projects.

Nagrecha’s father specialized in IT transformation projects involving ERP systems: the vast and complex “central nervous systems” that manage a company’s tax, accounting and supply chain. By the time he was eight, Nagrecha was listening to the massive 50-person stand-ups required to keep a 1,000-person project on track, and helping his father create the PowerPoint presentations used to brief other executives.

There, he learned firsthand the constant frustration and inefficiency that defined the traditional “system integrators” model, where such projects were largely outsourced to........

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