This report shares insights from top Cloud Wars CEOs on how AI will drive business transformation in 2025, focusing on execution, ROI, and leadership in the cloud.
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Google Cloud posted impressive 30% Q4 growth but faced a slowdown from the previous quarter.
Despite DeepSeek’s debut triggering a major AI stock selloff, Oracle and Microsoft view its leaner AI model as a positive force accelerating industry innovation.
Philipp Herzig, SAP’s chief AI officer and chief technology officer, discusses AI’s impact on enterprise software, SAP’s partner strategy, and the evolution of its business model.
CEOs praised DeepSeek for challenging the AI industry’s reliance on massive infrastructure, noting that such competition drives innovation and benefits customers.
Following its strongest financial results ever, SAP plans to supercharge AI agents with a new data-cloud offering designed to harmonize structured and unstructured data.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff predicts an AI-powered revolution with “agentic AI,” transforming business operations, reducing costs, and driving unprecedented customer engagement—while signaling a shift toward digital labor over traditional software development.
Marc Benioff describes how AI-driven “agentic” technology will enhance business operations, reduce costs, and shift focus toward digital labor over traditional software development.
SAP’s Q4 and full-year 2024 results showcase remarkable growth, with cloud ERP revenue up 35%, a 43% increase in cloud backlog, and cloud now accounting for 50% of total revenue.
The Stargate Project, under Larry Ellison’s leadership, is set to push the boundaries of AI and technology, with ambitious goals like developing cancer vaccines in just 48 hours.
AI has the transformative potential to reshape industries, address complex challenges like cancer research, and usher in a new era of innovation and possibility.
Software giant demonstrates commitment and leadership when it comes to preventing the misuse of AI and supporting recent safety initiatives.
SAP CEO Christian Klein discusses how the company is evolving to meet customer demands for business transformation through its integrated cloud ERP suites and AI-powered agents in 2025.
Microsoft and Oracle’s diverging AI strategies — standalone agents vs. integrated solutions— set the stage for transformative “Agent Wars” in enterprise technology.
Oracle Executive Vice President Steve Miranda discusses the integration of AI agents into business applications and their transformative impact.
Microsoft’s Charles Lamanna, Corporate VP, Business & Industry Copilot weighs in on the power of agents and copilots working together, the future of application software, and the transformation opportunities AI creates.
Microsoft’s Corporate VP, Business & Industry Copilot, outlines his company’s AI vision, why orchestration is so critical, and how applications will take on new roles in an agentic AI world.
Oracle exec takes aim at Biden Administration’s proposed AI regulations as overreaching, unrealistic, and poised to give the upper hand to other nations including China.
SAP Business Network connects millions of buyers and suppliers, offering scalable opportunities for growth, improved efficiency, and streamlined operations, with new tools for small suppliers launching in 2025.
Sridhar Ramaswamy of Snowflake shared his insights into the future of AI, the importance of delivering AI business outcomes, and Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud.