Oracle To Buy NetSuite, Extending Its Legacy From Software To The Cloud
Oracle’s decision to acquire NetSuite underscores the growing importance of Cloud applications to its future, or the legacy of its 71-year-old co-founder for that...
Enterprise Applications Customer Wins Summary – July 2023
We are thrilled to present the July 2023 edition of our Monthly Buyer Insights Summary, an indispensable report that tracks the ever-evolving landscape of...
Anaplan Ups Ante With Planning Apps For The Enterprise
In the new world of Cloud-based enterprise planning software, Anaplan has assembled considerable fire power to challenge a host of competitors from EPM incumbents...
Enterprise Applications Customer Wins Summary – November 2023
We are thrilled to present the November 2023 edition of our Monthly Buyer Insights Summary, an indispensable report that tracks the ever-evolving landscape of...
Enterprise Applications Customer Wins Summary – July 2024
We are thrilled to present the July 2024 edition of our Monthly Buyer Insights Summary, an indispensable report that tracks the ever-evolving landscape of...
Kyriba Keeps TRM Humming With New Funding, FiREapps Acquisition
The rise of Kyriba validates the upside potential of the Cloud applications market, especially for nimble players that can outrun their competition.
In 2018, Kyriba...
SYSPRO’s Game Changer – All Dressed Up and Many Places To Go
The Enterprise Resource Planning applications market is beginning to look a lot like the automotive industry where customer experience takes on greater urgency than...
SAP Catches Buyout Fever With Hybris
A day after Salesforce.com’s $2.5-billion deal to buy social CRM vendor ExactTarget, SAP announced its plan to acquire hybris, a Zug, Switzerland-based ISV specializing...
Enterprise Applications Customer Wins Summary – May 2024
We are thrilled to present the May 2024 edition of our Monthly Buyer Insights Summary, an indispensable report that tracks the ever-evolving landscape of...
Oracle Exits FY20 with Bold Plans To Thrive In the Cloud
Oracle exited its fiscal 2020 in good shape as the leading database and ERP vendor rolled out a number of corporate and product measures...
Oracle Surpasses SAP To Become No. 1 ERP Apps Provider
In 2024, Oracle surpassed SAP as the No. 1 ERP applications vendor for the first time, unseating the business software pioneer that has dominated...
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...
Oracle To Buy Responsys In New Flight Plan
Never the one to lose in high seas or in the Cloud, Oracle is pursuing a $2 billion flight plan that could put any...
SAP Faces the Inconvenient Truth
On the last day of the huge SAPPHIRENOW conference, a trio of standup comedians appeared on stage lampooning everything under the sun with one...
Infor Innovation Campaign Intensifies As The Empire Strikes Back
Infor, the $3-billion software vendor better known for its large collection of acquired ERP assets, is quickly capitalizing on the new fear factor that...
An Unconventional Approach From SAP To Score Industry Wins
The conventional wisdom is that SAP has been particularly successful selling into heavy industries. After all, it got its start in the 1970s developing...
In Search Of The New SAP Cloud for Industries
On the eve of its biggest annual customer conference, SAP announced the Industry Cloud strategy with the goal of sustaining its momentum in the...
Oracle Powers Up An Ever-Growing Cloud Platform
A combination of organic growth and recent acquisitions has propelled Oracle into the top echelon of the Cloud applications market.
This week CTO Larry Ellison...
Top 10 Cloud HCM Software Vendors, Market Size and Market Forecast 2020-2025
In 2020, the top 10 Cloud HCM software vendors accounted for 78.2% of the global Cloud HCM applications market which grew 6.5% to approach...
SAP Chases Constant Cloud Customers
The completion of SAP’s acquisition of SuccessFactors raises as many questions about the future of SAP as there are about its past.
One of the...
Eying Cloud Apps Leadership, Microsoft To Buy LinkedIn For $26.2B
Launching its largest acquisition in history, Microsoft is set to reshape the Cloud applications market with the proposed purchase of LinkedIn for $26.2 billion.
The...
Oracle Models How AI Changes Everything
The historical run of Oracle catapulted the vendor to new heights in valuation and projected revenues, and its recent AI World provided the perfect...
Top 10 SD-WAN Software Vendors, Market Size and Market Forecast 2018-2023
In 2018, the top 10 Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) software vendors accounted for nearly 58.3% of the global SD-WAN market which grew 114.4%...
SAP Analytics Cloud Aims To Solve Enterprise Decision Support Puzzle
At a recent SAP event in Vancouver, Canada, Stephanie Turner, manager and senior system engineer of Honda R&D Americas, demonstrates the use of SAP...
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...
Zoho Rides The Wave of Low-Code Development With Creator
After years of blistering growth by securing hundreds of thousands of customers, Zoho is showing no signs of slowing down by adding 100,000+ new...
Top 10 Cloud ERP Software Vendors, Market Size and Market Forecast 2023-2028
In 2023, the global Cloud ERP software market surged to $32.7 billion, growing by 8%. The top 10 vendors commanded a significant 63.1% market...
Oracle Soars On Cloud HCM Sales, While Extending Cautious Outlook
Buoyed by its recent acquisition of NetSuite, Oracle posted robust sales of Cloud products in its latest quarter on the strengths of signing new...
Customers Stock Up On Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM To Tackle Supply Chain Challenges
As the world enters the third year of living with the pandemic and the lingering shortages of everyday essentials, companies that have embraced an...
Apps Market Is Clouded By Cheap Money
Flushed with capital, the Cloud applications market has catapulted into one of the key battlegrounds for software companies to redefine corporate functions and business...






























