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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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.
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.
I believe that the SAP challenge to Salesforce for CRM leadership prompted Marc Benioff to develop and/or accelerate his customer-experience vision.
By my projections, the world’s top 10 enterprise-cloud vendors are poised to generate $158 billion in cloud revenue in calendar 2019.
12 months from now, Microsoft will likely bring in $50 billion in cloud revenue. Here are the three strategic reasons why that matters.
Quarterly revenue misses should be taken seriously. But I’m betting the SAP Q2 stumble was an aberration. Here’s how the company will get back to growth.
The SAP-Microsoft alliance continues to pile up big wins: one of Asia’s largest healthcare groups, Zuellig Pharma, will be on Azure by 2022.
The recent announcement of a new partnership between Microsoft and ServiceNow shows how Microsoft is besting Amazon in cloud: customer-centric deals.
Five vendors stand out in today’s Cloud Wars: #1 Microsoft, #2 Amazon, #3 Salesforce, #4 SAP, and a new addition to list: #5 Oracle.
There’s little chance that Salesforce is getting into HCM, but after a week of stunning announcements in Cloud Wars, it’s probably best to never say never.
“Qualtrics as a Game-Changer” || Watch Cloud Wars Top 10 Executive Insights interviews with Juergen Mueller and Christian Klein about SAP’s cloud strategy.
“Hybrid Everywhere Plus Trusted Partnerships” | My conversation with Arpan Shah, GM for Azure Infrastructure Marketing, about Microsoft’s cloud strategy.
“Disrupt Yourself or Be Disrupted” || Stream a new podcast episode with Larry Socher of Accenture for “Cloud Wars Top 10 Executive Insights.”
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.
How three Microsoft customers are delivering a great customer experience: fashioned around what buyers want, rather than what’s convenient for the seller.
Eager to move from underperformer to world-class competitor, Google Cloud and CEO Thomas Kurian have outlined some key themes at the Next ’19 conference.



















