Microsoft will face intensified pressure to hold the #1 spot in 2021 from Google, Amazon, and a few of the world’s other top cloud vendors.
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In a classic reflection of their decades-long rivalry, both SAP and Oracle claim they will lead the industry-specific solutions market.
Walmart, Accenture, UPS and GE all went live on Workday HCM in Q3, with those 4 companies representing almost 3 million new users.
Thomas Kurian raised the specter that proprietary clouds won’t meet the “survivability requirements” of today’s hybrid and multicloud world.
Pandemic-related, consumer-level disruptions have triggered upheavals behind the scenes in operations, logistics, and supply chains.
Going head-on against Google Cloud and SAP, Oracle plans to roll out a broad set of industry-specific cloud solutions.
The three vendors whose cloud revenue is growing most rapidly are Google at 44.8%, Oracle 33% (estimated), and Microsoft 31%.
Guest author Jiri Kram explores what Larry Ellison’s unexpected frontal attack on Salesforce could mean for AWS.
Oracle has pointedly and publicly called out AWS by claiming Oracle’s new Exadata Cloud Service X8M crushes competing services from AWS.
In a CX event earlier this week, Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison made two striking disclosures about Oracle’s growing relationship with Zoom.
By spanning both IaaS and SaaS layers of the cloud, Larry Ellison feels Oracle will offer unique value to business customers.
If Google’s founders have a secret list of “best hires we’ve ever made,” I would bet Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian is near or at the top.
Surging growth and massive potential have spurred Alphabet to break out the financial results of Google Cloud in a separate reporting segment.
The surging and superior results from Amazon’s “traditional” businesses might provide Bezos with the impetus to spin out AWS next year.
Did SAP suffer a mortal blow with Q3 results or will the company be able to rally behind the customer-centric vision of CEO Christian Klein?
Why I feel that Bill McDermott and ServiceNow could deliver meaningful impact and value to much-larger vendors SAP, Salesforce, and Oracle.
Google Cloud retained its claim to being the fastest-growing cloud vendor by boosting its revenue 44.8% in Q3.
The stellar Q1 results posted by Microsoft show they are the biggest and most-influential enterprise-cloud vendor in the world.
I expect Microsoft to post excellent fiscal Q1cloud results and dispense with the notion that the sky above the cloud is falling.
New Oracle CX businesses promise to “…to empower whoever gets to the customer first and enable new customer-centric business models.”