Synergy between Microsoft and LinkedIn could touch many users

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...
Steve Singh heads SAP Business Networks, while Elena Donio runs Concur.

In April 2013 Concur CEO Steve Singh took his mountain bike out for a spin that ended with a wreck leaving him badly injured...
Apps Run The World

Fueled by robust maintenance revenues, CSI’s market cap has soared to $8B

The book of the Toronto-based ERP apps vendor Constellation Software Inc.(CSI)  tells a simple story – it makes good money as shown in its...

Accelerating its push to become the first $10-billion Cloud applications vendor, Salesforce launched new products that buttress its core offerings, while hiking prices and...
SAP, Salesforce, IBM eye analytics as the panacea for containing soaring healthcare costs

The healthcare applications market is attracting a new class of players vying for a slice of the multi-trillion-dollar opportunity. In recent months, enterprise applications vendors...
Unit4’s new ERP apps carry different look and feel

With a dose of innovation and ready-made templates, the latest crop of Enterprise Resource Planning applications – which have been around for more than...
New York Life’s Jon Feinstein recently went live with S/4HANA Finance

SAP is spinning up its financial and ERP applications strategy in order to become more entrenched with its biggest customers, a move that could...
Box aims to reinvent content management

In an era where every bit of information is stored, retrieved and analyzed, Box is aiming to redefine how content should be managed. With the...
Mike Ettling leads SAP HCM Cloud and on-premise lines of business.

Following is excerpted from Cloud Top 500 survey findings, which profile the world's 500 largest Cloud Applications Vendors based on their 2014 Cloud subscription...
State of The Cloud Union Is Stable For Now

Flushed with capital, the Cloud applications market has catapulted into one of the key battlegrounds for software companies to redefine corporate functions and business...
Steve Lucas, president of SAP Platform Solutions, has high hopes for Vora

In another evolutionary move to push its technology platform, SAP introduced a query engine called SAP HANA Vora that leverages open-source technologies including Spark to...
European Union braces for Grexit

Amid a possible economic meltdown in Greece, the European software market is bracing for a host of challenges that could derail a fragile recovery. Interviews...
Unit4’s Jose Duarte aims to boost Cloud revenues further

Unit4 intensified its vertical strategy with an acquisition of a higher-education ERP application vendor, while cozying up with Microsoft to better leverage its Azure...
Anaplan CEO Fred Laluyaux, left, leads customer panel with HP’s Sue Barsamian, McAfee’s Jeff Brobst, Diageo’s Stefan Househam, and Aviva’s Darren Craddock

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...
Salesforce.com’s Mark Benioff(left) and Sage’s Stephen Kelly in global Cloud partnership

In one of the most remarkable partnerships in the Cloud applications market, Sage and Salesforce.com are joining forces to build next-generation ERP applications for...
NetSuite’s Zach Nelson(right) partners with Microsoft’s Satya Nadella

The Cloud can make for strange bedfellows, and that was the case at SuiteWorld, NetSuite’s annual user conference, when CEO Zach Nelson announced a...
SAP executives chairman Plattner(clockwise top left), CEO McDermott, Product Head Leukert and Business Network Chief Singh detail different traits of S/4HANA, HANA Cloud Platform

The big SAPPHIRENOW conference ended on a high note with Jennifer Lopez as headline entertainment and a fitting tribute to the new chapter of...
SAP CEO McDermott expresses no interest in buying Salesforce.com

SAP is not interested in acquiring Salesforce.com, according to company CEO Bill McDermott who responded flatly to a question raised by Apps Run The...
SAP’s Denise Broady(left) with Curtis Cole of Weill Cornell Medical College, Don Whittington of Florida Crystals, Gary Hayes of Centerpoint, and Steve Convey of Accenture on Co-Innovation panel

SAP solidified its industry cloud strategy with growing adoptions of its next-generation ERP suite of applications, while capitalizing on near-term opportunities with an array...
Cloud Applications Vendors With At Least $100M In Private Funding and/or Private-led Acquisitions

The drive to bankroll some of the fastest-growing Cloud applications vendors has reached a milestone with at least $21 billion being raised so far. That...
Enterprise Apps M&A activities could rival 2007 peak level

The rising valuation of Cloud vendors, coupled with an insatiable appetite for well-established enterprise applications companies, could fuel a merger mania in 2014 bidding...
The trio of SAP - Product Chief Bernd Leukert(l), Chairman Hasso Plattner(c), CMO Jonathan Becher at SAPPHIRENOW

The second day of the giant SAPPHIRENOW conference took the Run Simple message one notch higher with SAP executives and customers providing more examples...
SAP CEO Bill McDermott is flanked by Bernd Leukert (L), its product chief, and Luka Mucic, who runs finance, at SAPPHIRENOW

SAP kicked off its biggest annual customer conference with a bang, or simply the unmistakable message of Run Simple. For a software company that has...
Simon Paris, Christoph Behrendt, Denise Broady (L to R) at SAP Industries Analyst Base Camp

On the eve of its biggest annual customer conference, SAP announced the Industry Cloud strategy with the goal of sustaining its momentum in the...
IBM Scales Marketing With Silverpop Purchase

IBM cast a wider net in Cloud applications market with the planned purchase of Silverpop, which specializes in email marketing software for 5,000 brands...
UNIT4’s transformation in full force with SMAC

Having become one of the largest ERP vendors in the world, UNIT4 is charting a new course by expanding aggressively into the Cloud and...
ERP, car sales and tropical aquariums have something in common

The Enterprise Resource Planning applications market is beginning to look a lot like the automotive industry where customer experience takes on greater urgency than...
Oracle Aims $2B Flight Plan To The Cloud

Never the one to lose in high seas or in the Cloud, Oracle is pursuing a $2 billion flight plan that could put any...