Performance Machine gains IT edge with SYSPRO ERP

ERP applications vendors are kick-starting a new generation of operational advantages for manufacturers and distributors who are increasingly drawn to the latest technologies to...
As Workday expands, its growth decelerates - Customer Count

Workday continued its winning streak in the Cloud HCM applications market, posting a 38% jump in Cloud subscription revenues in its latest quarter. However...
Oracle CEO Mark Hurd and NetSuite GBU Head James McGeever

Following the acquisition of NetSuite, Oracle unveiled a number of strategies to spur its Cloud ERP growth across different verticals, market segments and geographies. At...
Oracle OpenWorld 2016

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...
Larry Ellison has been a true believer of NetSuite

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...
Top Five of Cloud Top 500 control over 28% of Cloud apps market

In 2015, the worldwide Cloud applications market reached $47.3 billion in Cloud subscription revenues, a 20% jump from 2014, while the top 25 vendors...
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...
Top 25 Cloud Applications Vendors Score Big In 2014. Subscribe and read profiles of 500+ Cloud apps vendors in our database

In 2014, the worldwide Cloud applications market surged 27% to a record $38.5 billion in Cloud subscription revenues and the top 25 vendors did...
Worldwide Cloud Applications Market Forecast 2015-2019; Source: Apps Run The World, September 2015

The Cloud applications market posted another big gain in 2014 as new vendors started ramping up their sales amid surging customer demand for all...
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...