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.
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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.
SAP co-CEO Jen Morgan, on Qualtrics: “The traditional definition of HR has changed, and there’s a new category: Human Experience Management.” (HXM)
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.
At a special SAP Capital Markets Day presentation on Tuesday 11/12, SAP’s new co-CEOs fully committed to the company’s growth plans in the cloud and beyond.
On an earnings call featuring incoming CEO Bill McDermott, ServiceNow appeared in a solid position to grow its revenue and maintain its enviable reputation.
Will the departures of well-established CEO leaders at SAP, Oracle and ServiceNow lead to upheavals or to more of the status quo?
A quick overview of the Cloud Wars top 5 vendors, which in this calendar year will generate about $115 billion in cloud revenue.
ServiceNow has scored a huge coup by recruiting SAP icon Bill McDermott to become CEO of the high-flying digital-workflow company by year’s end.
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.
As SAP reports Q3 cloud-revenue growth of 37% to $2 billion, the Microsoft deal “contributed 18 percentage points to the 39% new cloud bookings growth.”
At Workday Rising, CEO and longtime cloud evangelist Aneel Bhusri said machine learning will become even more disruptive than cloud computing.
Bill McDermott is stepping down as co-CEO of SAP. As someone who worked at SAP in 2011, I experienced McDermott’s courageous leadership firsthand.
The enterprise SaaS competition between SAP & Salesforce ratcheted up last week as Salesforce promised to link sales & ERP data in new Manufacturing Cloud.
Oracle founder Larry Ellison said his booming cloud business is peeling away SAP customers and will eventually unseat SAP as the world’s #1 ERP provider.
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.
I believe that the SAP challenge to Salesforce for CRM leadership prompted Marc Benioff to develop and/or accelerate his customer-experience vision.
Quarterly revenue misses should be taken seriously. But I’m betting the SAP Q2 stumble was an aberration. Here’s how the company will get back to growth.
The SAP-Microsoft alliance continues to pile up big wins: one of Asia’s largest healthcare groups, Zuellig Pharma, will be on Azure by 2022.