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.
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SAP on its own and Microsoft and Adobe together look to turn the CRM marketplace upside-down and position Salesforce as a behind-the-times “legacy” vendor.
As the first quarter of 2019 draws to a close, here is the one key question for each of the top 10 cloud vendors in the world.
It’s interesting to speculate about how three of the world’s top enterprise SaaS companies will respond to SAP and what I’m calling The Qualtrics Effect.
Based on what I’m seeing at the X4 Summit, the SAP Qualtrics acquisition will be seen as one of the great tech industry bargains in history.
The Salesforce Q4 2018 earnings call revealed that the company is somehow managing to scale up an scale out in multiple dimensions simultaneously.
The Cloud Wars CEO priorities offer an intriguing picture of where those companies’ customers—the world’s leading businesses—are headed.
SAP today predicted that its SAP cloud revenue will triple by 2023, thanks to its Qualtrics acquisition and the emerging “experience economy.”
My list of the world’s top 5 cloud vendors, including both cloud-natives and “legacy” veterans, and what they’ve done to earn the lofty spots.
A look at how 3 cloud heavyweights—Oracle, SAP and Google Cloud—are positioning themselves for the coming hybrid-cloud revolution.
Salesforce, SAP, and Oracle’s CRM battle will continue to escalate in 2019. Read why Salesforce is in a great position to dominate the race.
Cloud heavyweights Oracle, SAP and Workday continue to compete savagely in terms of mission-critical cloud ERP growth going into 2019.
What were the most important trends, vendor moves, and innovations for the cloud-computing industry in 2018? Read my 10 picks.
The cloud’s ability to completely revolutionize customer engagement & experience is the dominant topic for CEOs of many leading vendors in the Cloud Wars.
Microsoft, IBM & SAP posted a combined $13 billion in calendar-Q2 cloud revenue, led by Microsoft’s commercial-cloud growth rate of 53% to $6.9 billion.
As competition among top cloud vendors intensifies, cloud customer success is rapidly emerging as strategic differentiator more important than snazzy tech.
SAP is taking direct aim at Salesforce.com, CEO McDermott promises to deliver “next-generation business modeling for the perfect customer experience.”
Top executives at Microsoft, SAP and Oracle recently pledged to make customer success, not satisfaction or loyalty, their biggest priority in 2018.
SAP is predicting its cloud revenue will overtake its license revenue this year due to having “the most complete cloud in the enterprise,” CEO McDermott.
SAP partners with Databricks to unify structured and unstructured data for AI development, while the upcoming Sapphire event spotlights generative AI, the Joule interface, and ecosystem extensibility.