The commentary about the Slack deal from Salesforce execs on its recent earnings call was a lovefest of bedazzled proportions.
Cloud Wars Archive
Looking back on his 30-year odyssey with Oracle then NetSuite and now Oracle NetSuite with founder Evan Goldberg. [Sponsored by Oracle]
On this episode: I talk with Tony Uphoff about disruption: why it’s coming for the manufacturing industry and many others.
I think that we’re about to see that Marc Benioff’s acquisition of Slack will transform Salesforce & jolt the entire cloud industry.
On this episode, Wayne shares his thoughts on how the CFO role should function in today’s modern, digital focused organizations.
I can’t wait to see what kind of mischief Larry Ellison will be stirring up when he’s 80—so happy 77 to a true legend.
Setting a torrid pace in the greatest growth market the world has ever known, the Cloud Wars Top 10 vendors generated $60 billion in Q2 cloud revenue with #1 Microsoft, #2 Amazon, and #3 Google combining for $39 billion.
Infor has now decided in essence to bet the company on the R&D muscle of cloud-infrastructure partner Amazon.
Stream a new Cloud Wars Live podcast with Bridget Courneya to get introduced to the new Acceleration Economy project.
As much as I respect Bill McDermott, his recent stereotyping of Oracle and SAP as digital dinosaurs is both incorrect and misleading.
The recent Amazon-Workday reset and Workday’s subsequent engagement with Google Cloud underscore the need for cloud-ecosystem nimbleness.
In this Cloud Wars Live episode, I talk with Jan Gilg, President of SAP S/4HANA, about the shift to a digital economy and more.
Oracle has enhanced its HeatWave query accelerator for its MySQL Database Service with updates driven by customer requests.
SAP CEO Christian Klein on the company’s Q2 earnings call claimed to have whipped longtime rival Oracle for hundreds of competitive wins.
In this Cloud Wars Live episode, I talk with Bonnie Tinder about the need for “just right” software, or the Goldilocks Strategy.
In its Q4 earnings call, Microsoft disclosed fiscal-year cloud revenue numbers: almost $70 billion on broad-based growth across its empire.
On Cloud Wars Live, Christian Anschuetz advises leaders on what they must maintain about their business even as it changes and evolves.
Microsoft posted cloud revenue for the quarter ended June 30 of $19.5 billion, 31% higher than the Q2 cloud revenue from Amazon AWS.
SADA Systems CEO Tony Safoian and CTO Miles Ward share their thoughts on customers, Google Cloud, and family-run businesses. Sponsored.
Satya Nadella’s zeal for Microsoft Dynamics 365 in last week’s Q4 earnings call was a shot across the bows of SAP, Oracle & Salesforce.



















