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.
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In a classic reflection of their decades-long rivalry, both SAP and Oracle claim they will lead the industry-specific solutions market.
Walmart, Accenture, UPS and GE all went live on Workday HCM in Q3, with those 4 companies representing almost 3 million new users.
Going head-on against Google Cloud and SAP, Oracle plans to roll out a broad set of industry-specific cloud solutions.
The three vendors whose cloud revenue is growing most rapidly are Google at 44.8%, Oracle 33% (estimated), and Microsoft 31%.
Guest author Jiri Kram explores what Larry Ellison’s unexpected frontal attack on Salesforce could mean for AWS.
In a CX event earlier this week, Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison made two striking disclosures about Oracle’s growing relationship with Zoom.
By spanning both IaaS and SaaS layers of the cloud, Larry Ellison feels Oracle will offer unique value to business customers.
Surging growth and massive potential have spurred Alphabet to break out the financial results of Google Cloud in a separate reporting segment.
Google Cloud retained its claim to being the fastest-growing cloud vendor by boosting its revenue 44.8% in Q3.
As we head into Q4, here are my thoughts on the 5 world-shaping tech vendors making up the top half of the Cloud Wars Top 10 rankings.
My rationale for giving credence to Larry Ellison’s claim—and, more important, his belief—that Oracle can rise to the top of the IaaS market.
Guest author Jiri Kram explores the huge potential of Salesforce, and what if anything might stop it from becoming a trillion-dollar company.
A few thoughts on why Microsoft, Amazon, Salesforce, and Google top the Cloud Wars list of the world’s largest and most-influential cloud providers.
On the recent Amazon earnings numbers, to clarify: anyone who thinks that AWS is “in trouble” or because its growth rate was “only” 29% is nuts.
With a 43% revenue-growth rate that was much higher than those of its larger rivals, Google Cloud continued to be the fastest-growing major cloud vendor.
While I applaud the CEO’s unblinking confidence, I have questions about why SAP is spinning out Qualtrics, a company said to be SAP’s crown jewel.
40-year-old Christian Klein gave a confident performance on the SAP Q2 earnings call of which a CEO of any age would be proud.
As Microsoft cloud revenue soared to $51B on the strength of $14.3B in fiscal Q4, Azure led the way as usual with 50% hypergrowth. But there’s more!
From January when his appointment was announced until April 6 when became CEO, Arvind Krishna did 5 things very well in his debut quarter.



















