Following its release of quarterly results, cloud leader Salesforce’s shares shot up by 25%, giving it a market cap of almost $250 billion.
Cloud Revenue
In its Q2 earnings presentation, Salesforce included a CRM revenue market-share chart from IDC showing its increased dominance in 2019.
Market-cap valuations can be fleeting, but they provide an objective view of how the global market values companies like SAP, Salesforce and Oracle.
As Salesforce becomes the first SaaS company in history to reach $5 billion in quarterly revenue (for Q2), a preview of its 8/25/20 earnings call.
An overview of what we know and don’t know about the high-level details of Microsoft Azure revenue and Microsoft cloud revenue in general.
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.
A few reasons why I believe that Satya Nadella and the Microsoft executive team are extremely pleased with continued hyper growth from Azure.
A look at how Salesforce measures up against Microsoft, SAP and Oracle when it comes to hitting the $5 billion in a quarter mark.
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.
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!
CEO Christian Klein specifically called out SAP’s month-old Industry Cloud suite of applications as a “growth driver” in SAP’s preliminary Q2 report.
I expect that when Microsoft releases fiscal-Q4 earnings next month, it will total enterprise-cloud revenue for fiscal 2020 above $50 billion.
For the 3 months ended May 31, the Digital Experience business arm of Adobe posted quarterly revenue of $826 million, up just 5%.
Fiscal Q4 for Oracle, ended May 31, is always the company’s largest—and earnings calls often reveal developing trends for the company’s new fiscal year.
In a profound development for Salesforce, its fastest-growing category is “Platform and Other,” surpassing Service, Sales, Marketing & Commerce clouds.
With the news of two new Microsoft acquisitions in the networking and telecom space, traditional players in that industry better step up their game.
While the prospect of a Q2 downturn is real, the cloud industry’s 3 big hyperscalers generated Q1 revenue of $26.3B, and Amazon topped $10B for first time.
Despite COVID-19’s economic toll, Microsoft’s strong Q1 growth indicates that the 5 largest cloud vendors could generate cloud revenue of $150B+ in 2020.
In Q1, Google Cloud again achieved a cloud-revenue growth rate that was significantly higher than much-larger competitors Microsoft and Amazon’s AWS.