I spoke with Under Armour SVP of Global IT TJ Graven at SAP Sapphire 2019. Here are highlights from our conversation about innovation, Qualtrics, and more.
“Can IBM Become #1 In Hybrid Solutions?” | Stream the latest episode of Cloud Wars Top 10 Executive Insights, focused on IBM’s cloud strategy.
“Innovation, Transparency, Roadmaps, and More” | Watch my video interview with TJ Graven, Under Armour’s SVP of Global IT, from SAP Sapphire Now 2019.
Highlights from my interview with Qualtrics’ CEO Ryan Smith at SAP Sapphire Now 2019: how “experience management” and “intelligent enterprise” fit together.
“Hybrid Everywhere Plus Trusted Partnerships” | My conversation with Arpan Shah, GM for Azure Infrastructure Marketing, about Microsoft’s cloud strategy.
Highlights from my conversation with Will Grannis, who leads the Office of the CTO, about Google Cloud’s strategy as a resurgent player in the Cloud Wars.
I had the chance to catch up with Qualtrics CEO Ryan Smith during SAP Sapphire 2019. Watch the interview for a glimpse at how Qualtrics fits into SAP cloud.
SAP and Qualtrics’ $1.6-Trillion Opportunity: Exclusive Talk with SAP CEO Bill McDermott
As SAP and Qualtrics usher in a new era of experience management, Bill McDemott told me at Sapphire Now 2019 that his company’s best days are ahead of it.
In an exclusive interview during SAP Sapphire 2019, SAP CEO Bill McDermott sat down with Cloud Wars to talk the past, present, and future of his company.
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“Outsized Returns for Biz, Breakthrough Experiences for Customers” || My talk with Will Grannis of Google Cloud for “Cloud Wars Top 10 Executive Insights.”
The recently announced SAP and Microsoft Embrace program builds on the partners’ 25-year relationship and dramatically benefits both companies.
At Sapphire Now 2019, SAP founder Hasso Plattner offered a ringing endorsement for the new phenomenon of experience management. Can SAP achieve it?
At Sapphire, SAP unveiled a new position: “the Experience Company powered by the Intelligent Enterprise,” committing to Qualtrics and experience management.
In an astonishing update from Sapphire 2019, Microsoft will hire hundreds of dedicated SAP experts to sell SAP Cloud applications to Azure customers.
My Sapphire 2019 preview, part 2: 10 things to understand about where SAP stands today, where it’s headed, and why it expects to outperform its competitors.
As SAP prepares to host 22,000 of its nearest and dearest next week in at its annual Sapphire event in…
On ServiceNow Q1 earnings call, the digital-workflow leader announced that it’s preparing to release a new employee-experience SaaS product. Here’s my take.
We didn’t get Google Cloud revenue numbers during the Alphabet Q1 earnings call, we did gain insights from Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and CFO Ruth Porat.
Disney+/Netflix, Qualtrics, and Moonshots || This episode of Ammirati on Innovation explores “moonshots” in the context of SAP/Qualtrics, Disney+, and more.
Toward the end of last week’s Amazon Q1 earnings call, CFO Brian Olsavsky made a point of mentioning AWS’s excellent performance. Here are my thoughts.
The three fastest-growing tech companies in the Top 10 each rang up revenue-growth rates of 41% to start 2019. Here’s my take on the top cloud vendors, Q1.
I pulled 10 stand-out themes from the announcement of Microsoft’s Q1 cloud revenue—which jumped 41% to $9.6 billion for the 3 months ended March 31.
SAP Q1 revenue results, announced yesterday, rocketed its stock price up 12%. Here’s my take on SAP’s transformation into a cloud-hypergrowth powerhouse.
In this episode of Cloud Wars Live, Chris Lochhead celebrates the fact that tech companies (including Zoom, Pinterest, and Lyft) are going public again.
How three Microsoft customers are delivering a great customer experience: fashioned around what buyers want, rather than what’s convenient for the seller.
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