SAP tells Cloud Wars that buyer postings are up 51% and supplier responses are up 177% since it made Ariba Discovery free amid the coronavirus crisis.

Oracle has quietly aligned with a leading research university exploring novel ways to treat COVID-19 and with NVIDIA’s genomic-analysis specialists.

As COVID-19 emerged as a pandemic, Microsoft, Amazon & Salesforce were among the first to establish WFH to protect employees & offer free tech solutions.

Stream a new episode of the Cloud Wars Live podcast, to hear my conversation with Christopher Lochhead about responding to COVID-19 with radical generosity.

As COVID-19 drives millions to WFH, Microsoft Teams could be growing more rapidly in terms of users than any enterprise application in history.

Responding to the continued disruption of COVID-19, the CEOs of SAP and Microsoft shared powerful letters to their employees and extended communities.

IT director Steve Schechter explains why it’s easy for companies to allow their cloud spending to skyrocket, and offers solutions to four common challenges.

Stream the latest episode of the Cloud Wars Live podcast. Thomas CEO Tony Uphoff walks us thru data trends, the impact of COVID-19 on supply chains & more.

To support the global population adjusting to life during COVID-19, Google attacks misinformation & Google Cloud offers free services, among other actions.

Why Microsoft is offering Teams for free: “We are committed to helping organizations everywhere stay connected and productive during this difficult time.”

The first in a series exploring the coronavirus response from major tech vendors: how Salesforce, ServiceNow & Workday are supporting their communities.

Stream the latest episode of the Cloud Wars Live podcast, to hear Wayne Sadin’s advice for how businesses should prep for COVID-19 work-from-home periods.

In the wake of Oracle’s better-than-expected Q3 results, it can be illuminating to see the world—at least temporarily—through the eyes of Larry Ellison.

IT director Steve Schechter shares 4 steps he took to cut cloud-hosting costs for a client by nearly a third & how companies can keep costs down long-term.

As Ellison fuses his red-hot self-driving database with his tiny cloud-infrastructure business, Oracle Autonomous Database surges to 150% revenue growth.

Stream a new Cloud Wars Live podcast episode, with AI expert Ben Rewis. We explore the AI dilemma: the need for regulation alongside innovation.

This article is brought to you by Nutanix. Cloudmania has not killed off on-premises tech, and a new study from Nutanix and IDC helps explain why.

It’s now mid-March, when Oracle founder Larry Ellison promised to disclose details about the big German ERP customer that Oracle’s going to steal from SAP.

Its fast-growing Financials biz and enhanced product lineup have made Workday a very serious competitor vs. traditional heavyweights Oracle and SAP.

With its enterprise-focused Experience Cloud having grown 31% to $3.21B in FY2019, Adobe is joining the Cloud Wars Top 10 rankings.

Every time I start to get the impression that Microsoft is trying to do too many things too quickly, I take a look at comments from CFO Amy Hood.

My take on how Google Cloud snatched AWS client Major League Baseball (MLB) on the strength of multiple technologies plus YouTube and Ad Manager.

Stream the first episode of “Araujo on Transformation,” a new podcast series from Cloud Wars Live with author and speaker Charles Araujo.

Stream the latest episode of the Cloud Wars Live podcast, where Sean Ammirati and I discuss the many reasons why Amazon should spin out AWS.

During the recent Workday Q4 earnings call, while citing his company’s excellent results, CEO Aneel Bhusri called out both SAP and Oracle failures.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff: “With our recent acquisition of Tableau, we’re turning Customer 360 data into actionable insights… available to every user.”

The scary thing about Salesforce and its record-busting fiscal Q4 is that its growth rate is accelerating as it nears a $20 billion annualized run rate.