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Salesforce Q2 Earnings Call: Marc Benioff Will Focus on These 5 Things

August 24, 2020

As Salesforce becomes the first SaaS company in history to reach $5 billion in quarterly revenue, what are the big issues founder and CEO Marc Benioff will choose to discuss on the Aug. 25 earnings call? While Benioff’s exceptionally wide range of interests inside and outside the tech community provide an enormous range of potential

How COVID-19 Has Sparked Huge Innovation for Microsoft & Healthcare Customers

July 31, 2020

For all the misery caused by COVID-19, the pandemic has also accelerated in companies from every industry the hunt for innovation and the shift to data-driven business cultures, business models and processes. At Microsoft, that’s led to high-impact partnerships that are helping companies in retail, logistics, healthcare and pharmaceuticals create new businesses, engage with customers

Employee Well-Being During & After COVID: a Chat with Workday’s Chief People Officer

July 30, 2020

As SaaS powerhouse Workday helps thousands of customers around the world deal with the COVID-19 crisis, chief people officer Ashley Goldsmith is leading Workday’s own efforts to carefully orchestrate a return to work with its overriding priority of employee safety. “For Workday, employee safety and well-being has been and always will be our top priority.

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Remote Work and the Myth of the Open Office | Uphoff on Industry

July 27, 2020

Each month, Tony Uphoff, visionary CEO of Thomasnet.com, joins Cloud Wars Live for a recurring segment. “Uphoff on Industry” will explore the innovations, upheavals, and breakthroughs reshaping the the world of manufacturing and industrial markets. Join Tony and me as we discuss disruptive new trends in the digital-industrial world. Today, we talk office trends new

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Some Companies Are Going to be Flattened by COVID | Sadin on Digital

July 13, 2020

“Sadin on Digital” episodes explore the fast-changing and high-stakes world of digital business. Wayne Sadin and I focus in particular on what CEOs and boards must do to lead their companies successfully into the Digital Age. Today, we talk about the fact that COVID is going to leave some companies flattened while others will come

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Steve Jobs and Gorilla Glass: Create Your Future | Ammirati on Innovation

July 1, 2020

Each month, “Ammirati on Innovation” episodes will look at ways that the disruptive-startup mentality is spreading beyond young entrepreneurs to big established corporations. Serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist and Carnegie Mellon B-school professor Sean Ammirati, who sits at the intersection of these high-change dynamics, provides insight. Episode 14 Reimagining our companies is on Sean’s mind. We need

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If You Build a House on Swamp Land… | Tinder on Customers

June 29, 2020

Welcome to the first episode of a new Cloud Wars Live monthly series: Tinder on Customers. Bonnie Tinder is the founder and CEO of Raven Intel, an independent B2B peer review site that's amplifying the voice of the customer. She focuses on software customers, consulting partners and software vendors, and helps identify the best partners

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Dear Senior Management: Time to Step Up! | Araujo on Transformation

June 8, 2020

Each month, “Araujo on Transformation” episodes feature conversations with Charles Araujo, founder of the Institute for Digital Transformation. We all hear a lot (too much?) about Digital Transformation, but Charles is working to ground that platitude in reality. An engaging speaker and best-selling author, Charles is spreading the gospel of business change through an equally

The CEOs of Oracle, IBM, and Amazon - which will acquire Zoom?

Who Will Acquire Zoom: Amazon, Oracle, or IBM?

June 5, 2020

As the story of Zoom’s phenomenal growth spreads, and as the video-conferencing services it provides become not just mainstream but essential, which company in the Cloud Wars Top 10 will snap up Zoom to become more relevant in the digital future? Cloud Wars Top 10 Rankings — June 1, 2020 1. Microsoft — Its Top 10

Zoom CEO Eric Yuan talks about the company's huge first quarter earnings

The Zoom Revolution: 10 Eye-Popping Stats from Tech’s New Superstar

June 4, 2020

Few if any companies in any industry and under any circumstances have ever experienced a quarter that can match what Zoom Communications and founder Eric Yuan have just been through. We’ve all heard some of the stories and some of the numbers, but I want to share some details here. Because Zoom’s not only a

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