Zoom’s Q2 results were a mixed bag: missed revenue forecast and lowered full-year outlook based on macro factors. Profitability was a plus.
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Bob Evans makes the case for why each of these two tech giants could be ahead of the other in the battle for leadership in cloud enterprise applications.
In Cloud Wars Horizon Minute, Ep. 35, Tom Smith touches on the financial results recently reported by Zoom Video Communications.
In this Cloud Wars Minute, Bob compares figures from Oracle and SAP’s Q2 reports.
In this Cloud Wars Expo Moment, Bob Evans emphasizes the need to retire old organizational structures in favor of new models built to dazzle the customer.
Wayne and Bob cover Microsoft’s commitment to lowering cloud customer costs and the need for boards and C-suites to accept WFH.
Cisco says customers are building ‘massively scalable’ clouds that will boost its business. Aggressive supply chain moves pay off.
In this News Desk interview, SAP Global Head of Insurance Toni Tomic, GVP Falk Rieker, and SAP Fioneer President Mitch Bouchard discuss innovations specific to the finance sector.
In this Cloud Wars Expo Moment, the co-creator of Category Pirates explores the dividing line between 35-and-under digital natives and older native analogs, and how this gap defines the future of cloud tech.
In Episode 14 of the Growth Swarm podcast, John Siefert, Bob Evans, Tony Uphoff, and Scott Vaughan discuss the growth of the massive manufacturing industry and why cloud companies want a part of it, as well how technology — everything from digital twins and the Metaverse to AI and image recognition — accelerates this growth.
In this Cloud Wars Minute, Bob reflects on the impact that the cloud industry has had on not only his professional life, but also his personal life. Plus, he introduces us to his family.
In this Cloud Wars Expo Moment, Kieron Allen runs through the major brands in finance, consumer tech, fashion, and entertainment that are adopting Metaverse tech, along with reasons why.
In Cloud Wars Horizon Minute, Ep. 34, Tom Smith discusses how aggressive supply chain measures helped Cisco boost results in its most recent quarter.
Walmart’s financial results, and commentary by executives on its earnings call, show progress toward working through its inventory problem. That could be a positive indicator for retailers.
In this Cloud Wars Expo News Desk interview, Oracle’s North American Head of Platform Modernization discusses how her division works with the CIOs and CTOs of financial services partners.
In this Cloud Wars Expo Moment, Google Cloud Managing Director of Cloud Healthcare and Life Sciences Joe Miles discusses how its various AI cloud tools help healthcare industry partners.
Are the results of Walmart, and its success at inventory reduction, a sign of better things to come? It may be too soon to tell, but, as Tom Smith points out in Cloud Wars Horizon Minute, Ep. 33, they point the way to better performance.
Bob shares his predictions as Salesforce, Workday, and Snowflake are set to announce their fiscal Q2 results this week.
In this Cloud Wars Expo Moment, Wayne spells out building an organization with the “OODA loop,” which stipulates that one must observe, orient, decide and act on data more efficiently.
In this Cloud Wars Minute episode, Bob predicts big numbers for Salesforce, Workday, and Snowflake despite growing recessionary fears.