Two months after offering a compelling glimpse into how Google Cloud will become an aggressive and highly capable competitor in the Cloud Wars, CEO Thomas Kurian this week must win the confidence of customers and partners during the company’s highly anticipated Next ’19 event by filling in the details about core positioning, industry solutions, and customer-success stories.
If it’s indeed true that I Have Seen the Future of Enterprise Software and It Is SAP Qualtrics, then what impact will the Qualtrics Effect have on leading SaaS companies Salesforce, Oracle and Workday? Quick recap: I believe Qualtrics will profoundly shake up the enterprise-software business because it’s figured out a way to interconnect customer
While many SaaS vendors are performing extremely well these days in the Cloud Wars, the largest of them all by far, Salesforce, continues to execute at a pace and on a scale that others can so far only dream about. Having just closed the books on $13-billion year, and with plans to double that in
As Workday continues to compete successfully against much-larger rivals Oracle and SAP in the red-hot cloud ERP and HCM markets, Workday is using its nimbleness to complete customer deployments at what it says are far lower costs than those of its larger rivals. For decades, enterprise-tech applications vendors have grudgingly had to admit that for every
Riding booming results from its Financial Management SaaS apps as well as its recently acquired Planning apps, Workday says a number of customers are now buying the financial apps without already being users of its flagship HCM apps, signaling a new level of marketplace awareness and acceptance of Workday Financials. Across the board, Workday reported
The ridiculous premise that Microsoft’s industry-leading commercial-cloud business isn’t “real” cloud got even more absurd last week as two massive corporations—ExxonMobil and Albertsons—picked Azure, Dynamics 365 and Microsoft 365 to accelerate their digital transformations and drive innovation and revenue. For reasons I cannot fathom and that have no basis in reality, some pundits and supposed
While ServiceNow continues to grab lots of well-earned attention for its steep revenue growth, the really interesting story for the company is how it’s creating an entirely new category within the crowded SaaS marketplace by interconnecting the siloed workflows that other SaaS products are creating. As ServiceNow posted Q4 revenue growth of 35% and projected ongoing