On the Cloud Wars Live podcast, SAS EVP, COO and CTO Oliver Schabenberger joins me to discuss his company’s powerful partnership with Microsoft.
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As COVID-19 drives millions to WFH, Microsoft Teams could be growing more rapidly in terms of users than any enterprise application in history.
Why Microsoft is offering Teams for free: “We are committed to helping organizations everywhere stay connected and productive during this difficult time.”
Its fast-growing Financials biz and enhanced product lineup have made Workday a very serious competitor vs. traditional heavyweights Oracle and SAP.
The Microsoft Teams marketing blitz matters, because Teams and Office 365 Commercial have become high-volume on-ramps for Azure and other cloud services.
Stream the latest Cloud Wars Live podcast. Wayne Sadin and I discuss the promise of shadow IT, or collaborative IT: creating a single source of truth.
The most-disruptive initiative at high-flying ServiceNow is how new CEO Bill McDermott is redefining and redirecting the enterprise software business.
There’s some fresh revenue data for Oracle and Salesforce SaaS clouds, allowing us to compare how customers are responding to the top dog and a top rival.
Earlier this week, SAP co-CEO Christian Klein explained to analysts that SAP is #1 in ERP. Simulaneously, Larry Ellison claims that Oracle is #1.
Amazon has only its stellar performances of the past to blame for a Q3 growth rate of 35% to be seen as a potential cause for concern. And yet…
There’s no love lost between Oracle and Workday. But both Larry Ellison and Aneel Bhusri are talking a lot about large orgs’ growing appetite for SaaS apps.
During Oracle OpenWorld this week, the longtime leader of Oracle’s applications business Steve Miranda spoke about breaking down traditional SaaS silos.
Last year’s acquisition of planning hotshot Adaptive Insights appears to be the catalyst for ongoing success at Workday, per CEO Aneel Bhusri.
Workday CEO Aneel Bhusri says that about 50% of the Fortune 100 have subscribed to Workday’s cloud HCM services. Of those 50, 35 are already live.
The vibrancy of the dynamic SaaS segment is on full display in new customer-centric initiatives from Cloud Wars leaders Salesforce and Workday.
According to Gartner data, Salesforce racked up 2018 CRM market share of 19.5% in 2018—while the combined share for SAP, Oracle and Adobe was 18.9%.
Microsoft has massive influence as the world’s #1 cloud-computing provider, so it is inevitably a major player in the revolution in the SaaS business.
Here’s what I think Thomas Kurian and the Google Cloud team must say and do at Next ’19, their big global customer conference, to maintain their momentum.
It’s interesting to speculate about how three of the world’s top enterprise SaaS companies will respond to SAP and what I’m calling The Qualtrics Effect.
The Salesforce Q4 2018 earnings call revealed that the company is somehow managing to scale up an scale out in multiple dimensions simultaneously.