The recent Amazon-Workday reset and Workday’s subsequent engagement with Google Cloud underscore the need for cloud-ecosystem nimbleness.
Partnerships
Deutsche Bank recently disclosed a slew of innovations and goals it has already engineered as part of its 10-year deal with Google Cloud.
Chief Partner Officer Karl Fahrbach said co-innovation of cloud IP solutions is now the fastest-growing part of the SAP biz w/ partners.
Flexing its industry cloud muscles, the world’s most-influential cloud provider Microsoft has taken over #4 on the Industry Cloud Top 10.
Within the careful press release about AT&T moving its 5G mobile network to the Microsoft Azure for Operators cloud is another message.
It appears that Salesforce is turning a cold shoulder to Google Cloud, even as its cloudmances with Amazon and Microsoft draw attention.
A newly assertive and re-energized IBM is moving in to extend and enrich its 50-year strategic relationship with SAP.
I’ve seen speculation that Google Cloud will be the big winner as it swoops in to become the preferred cloud-infrastructure partner for SAP.
The expanded Amazon deal with TCS gives AWS more of a presence in the mainframe world it has sought for 15 years to replace.
Walmart, Accenture, UPS and GE all went live on Workday HCM in Q3, with those 4 companies representing almost 3 million new users.
Guest author Jiri Kram explores what Larry Ellison’s unexpected frontal attack on Salesforce could mean for AWS.
In a CX event earlier this week, Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison made two striking disclosures about Oracle’s growing relationship with Zoom.
Why I feel that Bill McDermott and ServiceNow could deliver meaningful impact and value to much-larger vendors SAP, Salesforce, and Oracle.
Can Microsoft and Google compete fiercely enough to win in revenue and collaboratively enough to keep peace with their major partners?
First in a 10-part series on the biggest challenge facing each of the Cloud Wars Top 10: Microsoft has forged lots of partnerships. Can it keep them?
While CEO Christian Klein insists that SAP owns all of its customer relationships, I see signs that its partnership with Google Cloud is deepening.
Building on an alliance launched half a century ago, IBM and SAP are calling their new initiative “the evolution partnership.”
While its alliance with SAS gives Microsoft a vast amount of additional firepower, I’d love to see a deal with Amazon / AWS, for the benefit of customers.
On the Cloud Wars Live podcast, Sean Ammirati says that in addition to reopening, we need to reimagine the economy—like Microsoft & FedEx have.
On Salesforce’s Q1 earnings call, Marc Benioff delivered inspiration, offering business leaders hope and confidence to in the midst of economic devastation.