Why Salesforce executives are lavishing praise on MuleSoft and Tableau for transforming Marc Benioff’s company into a truly strategic player.
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SAP and Salesforce both held investor-day events last month, based on which I made some educated guesses as to their future cloud revenue accomplishments.
My take on three specific competitive tech battles with the greatest strategic importance for business customers in 2020 and beyond.
Salesforce this week laid out its plans to stay far ahead of Oracle & SAP in the SaaS market and reach a staggering $35 billion in revenue by 2024.
As Salesforce annual revenue surges toward $20B, this week Marc Benioff is hosting 170,000 at the Dreamforce extravaganza. Here’s what I’m watching for.
Salesforce Sales Cloud and Service Cloud will now be tightly integrated with Microsoft Teams collaboration solutions, in a stinging blow to Amazon.
A quick overview of the Cloud Wars top 5 vendors, which in this calendar year will generate about $115 billion in cloud revenue.
New co-CEO Jennifer Morgan made it unmistakably clear in her first earnings call that Qualtrics and the SAP CX biz have become primary revenue drivers.
My response to a recent blog post from Jiri Kram, about whether Salesforce might shift its cloud operations from Oracle to AWS.
The enterprise SaaS competition between SAP & Salesforce ratcheted up last week as Salesforce promised to link sales & ERP data in new Manufacturing Cloud.
Salesforce has launched a new ad campaign that will further obliterate the archaic models of B2C and B2B. Here’s how CMO Stephanie Buscemi explained it.
Oracle and Salesforce compete head-on in the cloud, but the two couldn’t be more different in how they use earnings calls to showcase customers and wins.
I believe that the SAP challenge to Salesforce for CRM leadership prompted Marc Benioff to develop and/or accelerate his customer-experience vision.
The vibrancy of the dynamic SaaS segment is on full display in new customer-centric initiatives from Cloud Wars leaders Salesforce and Workday.
As business customers demand easy-to-use and modern data solutions, a new arms race is developing among the Cloud Wars Top 10 to answer those demands.
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%.
Google Cloud and Salesforce each announced multi-billion dollar acquisitions about 72 hours apart. Here’s what’s behind the Looker and Tableau deals.
As the enterprise cloud becomes without question the foundation for digital business, we’ve graded the Top 10 vendors. This is the Cloud Wars report card.
There’s little chance that Salesforce is getting into HCM, but after a week of stunning announcements in Cloud Wars, it’s probably best to never say never.
As the digital-transformation phenomenon shifts from boardroom theory to full-blown execution, Salesforce is doubling down on its Customer 360 strategy.



















