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SAP co-CEO Jen Morgan poses with employees, after talking about new Remote Work Pulse tool

7,600 Companies Pounce on Free SAP Solution to Help Employees Manage COVID-19 Stress

April 7, 2020

SAP Qualtrics has discovered huge demand for a free new solution designed to help businesses monitor how WFH employees are feeling and offer them real-time support in these high-stress times. Eight days ago during an appearance on Jim Cramer’s Mad Money, SAP co-CEO Jennifer Morgan said that more than 5,000 companies were already using the

SAP co-CEO Christian Klein, who joined Cloud Wars for an exclusive interview about customers and more

SAP Has Twice as Many Cloud ERP Customers as Oracle: Exclusive Co-CEO Interview

April 6, 2020

SAP is decisively outperforming rival Oracle in cloud ERP as business customers are demanding intelligent end-to-end cloud solutions fusing HCM, procurement, spend management and other formerly siloed processes, SAP co-CEO Christian Klein said in an exclusive Cloud Wars interview. While Klein’s perspectives on customer momentum in the red-hot cloud ERP marketplace are certainly intriguing, the

A woman receives an alert from a 'smart quarantine' solution on her phone

To Combat COVID-19, a Retail App Becomes a ‘Smart Quarantine’ Solution

April 4, 2020

Three years ago, Jiri Kram, a solution architect who studied Fintech at MIT and specializes in cloud computing and blockchain, designed a Smart Cities solution to help a Spanish retailer get shoppers to the right stores while safeguarding their privacy. Last month, after seeing the situation in his beloved Madrid and eager to help combat

Microsoft Pushes Fake News then Lame ‘Correction’ re Bogus 775% Surge

April 3, 2020

Yes, we all make mistakes, and yes, right now is a particularly stressful time—I get all that. So the fact that Microsoft recently made an error—a remarkably huge error—in a blog post describing the supposedly superb resilience of its cloud services is understandable. Deeply embarrassing, given the nature of its error, but understandable. Because, as we’ve

Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, outlines the COVID-19 response

Google Cloud Unveils Massive, Wide-Ranging Global Response to COVID-19

April 2, 2020

Mirroring its marketplace ambitions to become one of the world’s top cloud-computing vendors, Google Cloud has disclosed a remarkably broad and deep set of initiatives to help people, businesses and government agencies overcome the COVID-19 crisis. The Google Cloud efforts span a vast range of objectives. They include getting 1,100 retail workers in Germany running

In WFH Era, Can New Resilient IT Infrastructure Pay for Itself in 9 Months?

April 1, 2020

As COVID-19 drives a global work-from-home revolution affecting hundreds of millions of people, and as huge digital-transformation projects are still underway, world-class IT infrastructure that quickly pays for itself has suddenly become a strategic necessity that will only become more essential going forward. Add to that the ongoing need across the globe to relentlessly boost

SAP: Big Spike in Use of Sourcing App Offered Free During COVID-19

March 30, 2020

(The latest in our series examining the tech industry’s response to COVID-19.) Since making its Ariba Discovery sourcing software temporarily available at no charge to help businesses cope with supply-chain disruptions, SAP said buyer postings have increased by 51% and supplier responses have jumped by 177%. On March 10, as the world began to

Oracle Battles COVID-19 by Giving Researchers Gen 2 Cloud Infrastructure

March 27, 2020

(Latest in our series showing the tech industry’s response to COVID-19.) In the global battle against coronavirus, Oracle has quietly aligned with a leading research university exploring novel ways to treat COVID-19 and with NVIDIA’s genomic-analysis specialists looking to unlock the structure of the deadly disease. In both cases, Oracle is offering its Gen

Microsoft, Amazon and Salesforce’s Exceptional Leadership in Confronting COVID-19

March 26, 2020

While many of the world’s leading tech companies continue to make meaningful and enduring contributions to the battle against COVID-19, the three companies whose efforts have been most significant are Microsoft, Amazon and Salesforce. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that their standout leadership and innovative approaches during the unprecedented global COVID-19 crisis mirror their

WFH Revolution Making Microsoft Teams Global Phenomenon; Millions Added Daily

March 24, 2020

As the work-from-home and learn-from-home revolutions take hold across the globe in the wake of COVID-19, Microsoft Teams collaboration software could be growing more rapidly than any enterprise application in history. Let me state the perfectly obvious up front. A global pandemic is an incredibly unwelcome and unwanted trigger for such a phenomenon. No one

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