Three big challenges for Microsoft: Azure reliability, balancing enormous aspirations for SaaS and IaaS, and keeping Satya Nadella—perhaps the world’s top CEO—happy and motivated and challenged. Check out our in-depth exploration of those 3 challenges.
Despite being the core of the greatest growth market the tech industry has ever known, cloud vendors face significant challenges.
On the Cloud Wars Live podcast, Christopher Lochhead and I discuss Fender, Zoom, and the end of Silicon Valley.
Oracle and its fast-growing IaaS business face a very different challenge, as chairman Larry Ellison says demand is far outstripping supply.
Stream the Cloud Wars Live podcast to hear Wayne Sadin discuss the latest in strategic planning, true cloud-native ERP, and CIO leadership.
Judson Althoff, Microsoft EVP of worldwide commercial business, laid out their 5-step plan for “how 50,000 people go to work every day”.
On this Cloud Wars Live podcast, Sean Ammrati and I discuss industry innovations, including if Apple will jump into the cloud business.
Honeywell looks to use its 114 years of industrial and process-control expertise to build the world’s premiere industrial-software company.
An in-depth analysis of how Bill McDermott plans to quickly drive ServiceNow from $4 billion in annual revenue to $10 billion.
Ready to turn its dreams of transcending traditional ERP into reality, SAP to bring the full promise of the Intelligent Enterprise in 2021.
On December 1, 2020, Salesforce acquired Slack for $27.7 Billion. Guest author Jiri Kram’s thoughts on what preceded and will happen next.
Since taking over as Google Cloud CEO in January 2019, Kurian has turned his company into the hottest enterprise-cloud vendor in the world.
Betting $28 billion that Slack will help Salesforce stay ahead of hard-charging Oracle and SAP, Marc Benioff is redefining his company.
On the Cloud Wars Live podcast, Bonnie Tinder describes the resources and team members needed to build a project dream team.
Microsoft will face intensified pressure to hold the #1 spot in 2021 from Google, Amazon, and a few of the world’s other top cloud vendors.
In a classic reflection of their decades-long rivalry, both SAP and Oracle claim they will lead the industry-specific solutions market.
On the Cloud Wars Live podcast, Tony Uphoff and I discuss recruiting, retaining, and developing talent in today’s digital market.
Walmart, Accenture, UPS and GE all went live on Workday HCM in Q3, with those 4 companies representing almost 3 million new users.
On the Cloud Wars Live podcast, I’m joined by Paul Greenberg, CRM guru and Founder of The 56 Group LLC, to discuss delighting customers.
On the Cloud Wars Live podcast, Sean Ammrati and I discuss industry innovations, including the potential for an AWS IPO from Amazon.
