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.
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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.
The recent announcement of a new partnership between Microsoft and ServiceNow shows how Microsoft is besting Amazon in cloud: customer-centric deals.
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.
Why I was surprised to hear Oracle execs revert to tired tropes, like Workday being “not competitive,” on an otherwise impactful Q4 earnings call.
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%.
Gain a deeper understanding of SAP’s cloud strategy—read these highlights from my recent interviews with SAP CTO Juergen Mueller and COO Christian Klein.
“Qualtrics as a Game-Changer” || Watch Cloud Wars Top 10 Executive Insights interviews with Juergen Mueller and Christian Klein about SAP’s cloud strategy.
I spoke with Under Armour SVP of Global IT TJ Graven at SAP Sapphire 2019. Here are highlights from our conversation about innovation, Qualtrics, and more.
“Innovation, Transparency, Roadmaps, and More” | Watch my video interview with TJ Graven, Under Armour’s SVP of Global IT, from SAP Sapphire Now 2019.
Highlights from my interview with Qualtrics’ CEO Ryan Smith at SAP Sapphire Now 2019: how “experience management” and “intelligent enterprise” fit together.
I had the chance to catch up with Qualtrics CEO Ryan Smith during SAP Sapphire 2019. Watch the interview for a glimpse at how Qualtrics fits into SAP cloud.
As SAP and Qualtrics usher in a new era of experience management, Bill McDemott told me at Sapphire Now 2019 that his company’s best days are ahead of it.
In an exclusive interview during SAP Sapphire 2019, SAP CEO Bill McDermott sat down with Cloud Wars to talk the past, present, and future of his company.
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