Monthly Archives: August 2015
SAP Cloud Reaches An Inflection Point
What a difference a year has made SAP!
At last year’s SAPPHIRE NOW, I raised a few thorny questions about SAP’s Cloud viability and its...
Unit4 Ushers In People Platform For ERP Users
After more than a year of reinvestment and redevelopment efforts, Unit4 is upping the ante with a new platform that could boost its standing...
Five Questions For Marketing Maven Judith Rothrock
Recently I had an opportunity to speak with Judith Rothrock, president of JRocket Marketing and an award-winning marketer who has helped a host of...
SAP Pivots To LOB Users With Simple Finance
As SAP shifts its focus to the Cloud, it is turning its attention to Line of Business executives, a group of users who have...
Elysian Field Software Readies HCM, Field Service Apps
As the lure of Cloud applications continues to capture the imagination and budgets of enterprise software buyers, one of the key enablers for enterprise...
A No-Win Situation Amid Soaring Cloud Costs
Box, the fast-growing cloud storage and collaboration tool provider, is candid about where it stands on the infrastructure cost component for Cloud delivery.
In its...
Top 10 Cloud Infrastructure Providers Among Cloud Top 500
As Cloud computing becomes the mainstream vehicle for many companies to access mission-critical applications, the infrastructure cost component – or what makes Cloud delivery...
Oracle and MICROS – More is Better
Oracle announced a blockbuster deal with the proposed purchase of MICROS Systems for $5.3 billion, stepping up its push into the leisure, hospitality and...
SAP Buys Concur To Close In On Salesforce.com
The proposed $8.3 billion purchase of Concur by SAP underscores the ERP applications vendor’s desire to create a balanced portfolio of well-established Cloud properties,...
SAP as No. 1 in Cloud HCM in 2013
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Key Verticals: Aerospace & Defense, Automotive, Banking, Chemicals, Consumer Products, Construction, Healthcare, Education, Technology, Insurance, Media,...
Sage Summit Marks Subtle Cloud Moves
As many ERP applications vendors are banking on cloud delivery with round-the-clock Web selling strategies and relentless acquisitions, Sage is trying something more subtle.
At...
World’s Cloud Top 500 Applications Vendors
In 2013, the Cloud applications market soared 32% to hit $30.3 billion in Cloud subscription revenues, compared with $23 billion in the year-earlier period....
Cloud Applications Get New Parents
The growing popularity of Cloud applications has attracted a group of unusual investors wanting to cash in on the current wave of Cloud adoptions...
Lessons for On-Premise Vendors
The $520 million purchase of Cegedim’s CRM business by IMS Health in June 2014 offered a cautionary tale on how on-premise applications sales have...
Top HCM Applications Vendors In The Cloud and Market Forecast 2014-2018
For years, ADP, one of the pioneers in HR and payroll applications, has been offering one kind or another Cloud services via hosting for...
Worldwide Cloud Applications Market Forecast 2014-2018
Backed by across-the-board customer acceptance and investor support, the $30-billion Cloud applications market is poised to rack up big gains over the next five...