While CEO Christian Klein insists that SAP owns all of its customer relationships, I see signs that its partnership with Google Cloud is deepening.
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Building on an alliance launched half a century ago, IBM and SAP are calling their new initiative “the evolution partnership.”
One of the customer wins that Larry Ellison mentioned on the Oracle Q4 earnings call was Goldman Sachs, which he says had a failed Workday implementation.
Larry Ellison & Oracle CEO Safra Catz also used yesterday’s fiscal-Q4 earnings call to highlight HCM momentum, Autonomous Database revenue growth, and more.
While its alliance with SAS gives Microsoft a vast amount of additional firepower, I’d love to see a deal with Amazon / AWS, for the benefit of customers.
Fiscal Q4 for Oracle, ended May 31, is always the company’s largest—and earnings calls often reveal developing trends for the company’s new fiscal year.
Will infrastructure leader Amazon acquire Zoom, in preparation for the digital future and to grab back the microphone in the Cloud Wars?
In a profound development for Salesforce, its fastest-growing category is “Platform and Other,” surpassing Service, Sales, Marketing & Commerce clouds.
On the Workday fiscal Q1 earnings call later today (May 27), I expect CEO Aneel Bhusri to make some pointed comments about the competitive landscape.
With the news of two new Microsoft acquisitions in the networking and telecom space, traditional players in that industry better step up their game.
To diginomica.com, SAP CEO Christian Klein predicted increasing tension with Microsoft & Google over applications & control over customer transformations.
In this Cloud Wars guest post, author Jiri Kram explores how Salesforce might pivot and keep growing, if it says “sayonara” to Oracle databases.
Despite COVID-19’s economic toll, Microsoft’s strong Q1 growth indicates that the 5 largest cloud vendors could generate cloud revenue of $150B+ in 2020.
Despite the cloud revenue totals that Microsoft and Amazon announce each quarter, the media will continue its delusion that AWS is #1. Watch and see.
With this week’s announcement about the departure of Jen Morgan at month’s end, 3 leading software companies have dropped the co-CEO model in past 9 months.
Stream “Steube on Spending,” a monthly Cloud Wars Live podcast, for insights into the results of an April survey of CEOs about COVID-19, cloud and more.
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.
As Ellison fuses his red-hot self-driving database with his tiny cloud-infrastructure business, Oracle Autonomous Database surges to 150% revenue growth.
Its fast-growing Financials biz and enhanced product lineup have made Workday a very serious competitor vs. traditional heavyweights Oracle and SAP.
During the recent Workday Q4 earnings call, while citing his company’s excellent results, CEO Aneel Bhusri called out both SAP and Oracle failures.



















