Top cloud companies have evolving generative AI pricing strategies, and SAP’s involves a 30% premium.
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Salesforce announces $20 million in grants to fund training and education programs in schools and non-profits, focusing on generative AI and emerging technologies to prepare students and the workforce for the future.
Oracle’s Larry Ellison announces plans to create a true multi-cloud future, interconnecting with major cloud providers like Salesforce to meet customer demand for seamless cloud integration and freedom of choice.
Oracle chairman Larry Ellison discusses the shift towards true multi-cloud environments driven by customer demand and the need for vendors to collaborate.
An update on the growth trends of top cloud companies, categorizing them into four groups based on their revenue growth rates.
A ranking of the cloud vendors, highlighting Oracle’s top ranking, Microsoft’s exceptional volume, and AWS’ slowing growth.
There are differing pricing strategies among top cloud companies for their GenAI-powered products, with Oracle taking a unified stance against raising prices and offering GenAI capabilities as a standard feature.
Highlights from Oracle CEO Safra Catz’s keynote speech at CloudWorld, including discussions with notable customers like Uber and Loblaw about the transformative role of Oracle technology in their businesses.
IBM and Salesforce collaborate for customer relationship management (CRM), leveraging generative AI to enhance customer experience and productivity.
Salesforce has overtaken SAP in recent quarterly revenue, but SAP leads in trailing-12-month revenue as they vie for the title of the world’s largest enterprise applications vendor in a competitive enterprise software market.
Here’s a look into the intense competition between SAP and Salesforce to become the world’s largest applications vendor, highlighting their quarterly, trailing-12-month, and long-term revenue comparisons and the significance of this competition in the evolving cloud market.
AI Index Episode 9: The U.S. DOD launches its generative AI Task Force; Salesforce Ventures invests $200 million in Hugging Face; and Lex provides AI-powered writing tools.
During the Salesforce earnings call, Marc Benioff emphasized the company’s “incredible” performance but neglected to comment on its revenue growth.
Despite Marc Benioff saying the company’s performance is “incredible”, Salesforce’s Q2 growth rates demonstrate otherwise.
The Cloud Wars Top 10 are in the thick of quarterly financial reports. The numbers and outlook are making it clear: some investment caution is dissipating.
Integrating generative AI, natural language prompts, large language models, and machine learning augments the power of customer experience applications.
The Cloud Wars Top 10 companies are projected to generate $359.4 billion in cloud revenue in 2023, despite economic challenges, with Microsoft leading at a growth rate of 21.6%, while Oracle is the fastest-growing member with a 38.8% growth rate.
Projected growth rates for the Cloud Wars Top 10 companies in 2023 showcase the sector’s resilience and rapid expansion.
An update on the Cloud Confidence Index, with Amazon, Google, and SAP leading the index higher.
The Cloud Confidence Index uses market caps of top 10 cloud companies as a proxy for business leaders’ confidence in their growth, reflecting customer demand and technology trends. The index is up slightly.