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Oracle Vs. SAP: Who Will Lead Hot New Market for Industry-Specific Solutions?

November 25, 2020

In a classic reflection of their decades-long rivalry, the leaders of both SAP and Oracle have recently claimed that his company is the one and only software maker capable of leading the booming demand for vertical-market enterprise applications. (On my weekly Cloud Wars Top 10 rankings, SAP is #5 and Oracle is #6.) SAP CEO

SAP: After Brutal Q3, Will it Stumble Again or Bounce Back Boldly?

November 3, 2020

Is SAP’s Q3 nightmare that zapped $35 billion in market-cap value a harbinger of deep troubles, or will the company be able to rally behind the customer-centric vision of CEO Christian Klein and emerge as a true cloud powerhouse? (SAP is #5 on my Cloud Wars Top 10 weekly rankings.) As is so often the

SAP Versus Salesforce: Is Marc Benioff Missing the CX Boom?

October 22, 2020

After two uninterrupted decades of outmaneuvering every competitor and embracing The Customer earlier and more intimately than anyone else, is it possible that Marc Benioff, Salesforce CEO and global thought-leader, has been so wedded to CRM that he’s missed the CX revolution? Salesforce #3, SAP #5 on Cloud Wars Top 10 Has Benioff let rival

SAP CEO Christian Klein emphasizes the company's focus on CX

Can SAP Leapfrog Salesforce by Going All-In on CX plus ERP?

October 15, 2020

As the world’s largest vendor of enterprise apps takes on the world’s largest vendor of cloud apps, SAP and Salesforce are offering wildly different approaches to helping businesses achieve the customer-centric capabilities essential for success in the digital economy. (In my weekly Cloud Wars Top 10 rankings, Salesforce is #3 and SAP is #5.) At

Can Your Company Move at the Speed of Your Customers?

October 13, 2020

From touchless payments to overhauled supply chains to omnichannel everywhere to the boom in telemedicine, companies in every industry and across the world are racing to find new and better ways to move at the speed of their customers. Here in 2020, the world has not just hit a tipping point—it has blasted through a

IDC Market Study shows SAP leads in B2B digital commerce

SAP Thumps Salesforce, Oracle, Adobe in B2B Digital Commerce: IDC

October 6, 2020

A week before SAP unveils its new CX strategy and intentions, IDC has released a market study showing that SAP has a significantly stronger presence in B2B Digital Commerce than competitors Salesforce, Oracle, and Adobe. (On my Cloud Wars Top 10 weekly rankings, SAP is #5, Salesforce is #3, Oracle is #6, and Adobe is

Cloud Wars Top 5 cloud vendors includes Microsoft

Top 5 Cloud Vendors for Q4: #1 Microsoft, #2 Amazon, #3 Salesforce, #4 Google Cloud, #5 SAP

October 1, 2020

As we head into the home stretch of a year in which extraordinary personal disruption has led to digital-business hyperevolution, the 5 most-influential enterprise-cloud vendors will be the primary drivers of still more rapidly accelerating innovation. So as we make the turn into Q4, here are a few thoughts on the 5 world-shaping tech vendors

Salesforce-SAP Showdown: SAP Exits Mainstream CRM for ‘Focused’ Segments

September 11, 2020

Two years after former CEO Bill McDermott vowed that SAP would take the CRM market by storm and spent $8 billion on Qualtrics to help do so, SAP is conceding the broad mainstream CRM market to Salesforce and will pursue only certain specific segments. That revelation came earlier this week from SAP CFO Luka Mucic

SAP CFO Shoots Down Larry Ellison Claim of Oracle Snatching SAP Customers

September 10, 2020

SAP CFO Luka Mucic has unequivocally shot down claims made by Oracle chairman Larry Ellison during the past year that a huge SAP ERP customer was on the verge of defecting to Oracle, with many more certain to follow. “I have checked and we have not lost a single [ERP] customer” to Oracle, Mucic said

SAP CEO Christian Klein's company has a higher market-cap value than Oracle and Salesforce

Why SAP Is Beating Salesforce and Oracle in the Market-Cap Wars

August 25, 2020

Which cloud powerhouse does the public value most highly: Salesforce, with annualized revenue of about $19 billion; SAP, with annualized revenue of about $32 billion; or Oracle, with annualized revenue of about $40 billion? Market capitalizations can be fleeting things—Apple’s is currently at $2.1 trillion—but in spite of occasional flightiness, they provide a fully objective,

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