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The enterprise SaaS competition between SAP & Salesforce ratcheted up last week as Salesforce promised to link sales & ERP data in new Manufacturing Cloud.

During Oracle OpenWorld this week, the longtime leader of Oracle’s applications business Steve Miranda spoke about breaking down traditional SaaS silos.

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Larry Ellison announced at OpenWorld that Oracle is expanding its partnership w/ Microsoft and promised to vault past Amazon in key infrastructure category.

Oracle founder Larry Ellison is flipping his script on Amazon: from trashing its database capabilities to emulating its “land and expand” sales strategy.

Oracle founder Larry Ellison delivered extreme buildup for the industry’s first and only self-driving autonomous database during last week’s earnings call.

Oracle founder Larry Ellison said his booming cloud business is peeling away SAP customers and will eventually unseat SAP as the world’s #1 ERP provider.

Oracle Open World 2019 news: a LinkedIn post last night from apps leader Steve Miranda offered a glimpse into what business customers can expect.

In this new episode, Christopher and I weigh some pro’s and con’s. For example: Google filing a patent for a baby monitor. Do we want AI “spying” on babies?

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Salesforce has launched a new ad campaign that will further obliterate the archaic models of B2C and B2B. Here’s how CMO Stephanie Buscemi explained it.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella posted an intriguing video on LinkedIn this week extolling the virtues of what he called a “hyperscale limitless database.”

In a new episode of Cloud Wars Live, Sean Ammirati and I discuss why a big company might fail to pursue innovation and become an entrepreneur. And more!

Last year’s acquisition of planning hotshot Adaptive Insights appears to be the catalyst for ongoing success at Workday, per CEO Aneel Bhusri.

Which cloud vendor or combination of vendors might have the tech depth, customer focus, marketing savvy, & deep pockets to beat Microsoft in the cloud?

Workday CEO Aneel Bhusri says that about 50% of the Fortune 100 have subscribed to Workday’s cloud HCM services. Of those 50, 35 are already live.

How Oracle is invigorating its Oracle Analytics business and leadership under the direction of group vice president Bruno Aziza.

The Microsoft & UBS deal is indicative of how the rapid spread of cloud-availability regions is enabling global corps to accelerate digital transformation.

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Oracle and Salesforce compete head-on in the cloud, but the two couldn’t be more different in how they use earnings calls to showcase customers and wins.

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I believe that the SAP challenge to Salesforce for CRM leadership prompted Marc Benioff to develop and/or accelerate his customer-experience vision.

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