IBM saw its Q4 cloud revenue jump 23%. But CEO Ginni Rometty cannot afford another post-Q4 dropoff. I’ve brainstormed 5 ways that IBM can maintain its pace.
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How does new CEO Bill McDermott plan to meet ServiceNow’s 2020 challenge, of reaching $10B in revenue & setting new standards for the biz-software industry?
Oracle’s 2020 challenge: Larry Ellison has always sought out confrontations, but the cloud adversaries he’s called out this year are especially formidable.
Workday says its Financials biz will become its biggest revenue driver, underscoring the vendor’s ability to be a broad-based supplier of enterprise apps.
Watch or stream the Cloud Wars interview with our CEO of the Year for 2019, Thomas Kurian of Google Cloud: his first year on the job and what comes next.
SAP co-CEO Jen Morgan, on Qualtrics: “The traditional definition of HR has changed, and there’s a new category: Human Experience Management.” (HXM)
“We’ve always talked about predictive analytics, but they’re now a reality,” said Workday CEO Aneel Bhusri said in a recent exclusive Cloud Wars interview.
As Salesforce annual revenue surges toward $20B, this week Marc Benioff is hosting 170,000 at the Dreamforce extravaganza. Here’s what I’m watching for.
At a special SAP Capital Markets Day presentation on Tuesday 11/12, SAP’s new co-CEOs fully committed to the company’s growth plans in the cloud and beyond.
With all of the top cloud vendors delivering remarkable performances in 2019, which leader deserves to be the Cloud Wars Top CEO of 2019?
With the imminent arrival of Bill McDermott and his revelation of plans to triple its revenue, ServiceNow has climbed to #9 on the Cloud Wars Top 10.
On an earnings call featuring incoming CEO Bill McDermott, ServiceNow appeared in a solid position to grow its revenue and maintain its enviable reputation.
Google Cloud racked up major Q3 wins in healthcare, financial services and retail, as CEO Sundar Pichai cited “great momentum” for its cloud business.
Will the departures of well-established CEO leaders at SAP, Oracle and ServiceNow lead to upheavals or to more of the status quo?
ServiceNow has scored a huge coup by recruiting SAP icon Bill McDermott to become CEO of the high-flying digital-workflow company by year’s end.
As SAP reports Q3 cloud-revenue growth of 37% to $2 billion, the Microsoft deal “contributed 18 percentage points to the 39% new cloud bookings growth.”
Bill McDermott is stepping down as co-CEO of SAP. As someone who worked at SAP in 2011, I experienced McDermott’s courageous leadership firsthand.
Oracle founder Larry Ellison delivered extreme buildup for the industry’s first and only self-driving autonomous database during last week’s earnings call.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella posted an intriguing video on LinkedIn this week extolling the virtues of what he called a “hyperscale limitless database.”
The expectations behind Microsoft investing $1 billion in partner OpenAI are thrilling, especially when you consider the leaders of each company.