Exhibit 1 - 2018 CcaaS Applications Market Shares Split By Top 10 CcaaS Vendors and Others, %

In 2018, the top 10 Contact Center As A Service software vendors accounted for nearly 52.5% of the global CcaaS application market...
Exhibit 1 - 2018 SD WAN Applications Market Shares Split By Top 10 SD WAN Vendors and Others, %

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%...
Exhibit 1: 2018 Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) Applications Market Shares Split By Top 10 Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) Vendors and others, %

In 2018, the top 10 CASB software vendors accounted for approximately 57% of the global Cloud Access Security Broker applications market which...
Microsoft’s Nadella and Salesforce’s Benioff face off in Cloud applications market, photo from Salesforce’s Twitter feed

After more than a decade of relentless development efforts and heavy investments including a blockbuster acquisition, Microsoft has surpassed Salesforce for the...
Chief Product Officer Dan Brown(left) and CEO Tod Nielsen at FinancialForce Community Live

Midmarket ERP applications vendor FinancialForce is reinforcing its emphasis on professional services automation, while stepping up efforts to win the race for...
At Vision 2019, CEO Mike Morini (left to right), Meghan Rees of MLSE and Shilpi Narang of Workplace by Facebook

WorkForce Software is unleashing a slew of enhancements that reinforce its laser focus on workforce management, while strengthening its presence in key...
Left to Right: Kirsten Allegri Williams (CMO), Stephen Spears (CRO), Greg Tomb (President) and Amy Wilson (EVP of Product) at SuccessConnect

SAP’s Cloud platform and integration strategy is gathering momentum as the enterprise software heavyweight is pushing its stack beyond the boundaries...
Kronos president Chris Todd at its new HQ in Lowell, MA, basking in its soaring valuation

After years of solidifying its gains in the workforce management applications market, Kronos is eying a bigger prize in everything HR.
Oracle SVP T.K. Anand searches for the next big hit in BI and Analytics

Oracle is focusing on new customers and its fast-growing Cloud applications business to help drive its analytics offerings, which have been streamlined...
(Left to right)VP Jill Strange of Infor HCM Science Apps, CTO Soma Somasundaram, CEO Charles Phillips, CFO Kevin Samuelson, and VP Heidi Benko of Infor SCM

Infor is moving swiftly to capitalize on its new momentum, banking on a whole host of partners and new products to drive...
SAC event features Stephanie Turner of Honda(top left), Gerrit Kazmaier of SAP in Vancouver offices recently renovated by Omicron

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 CEO Bill McDermott(left to right), President of Cloud Business Group Rob Enslin, Head of Products and Innovation Bernd Leukert and President of Customer Experience Alex Atzberger at SAPPHIRENow in June 2018

Five months ago, I asked a roomful of SAP executives what did it take for the ERP applications vendor to win in Customer Relationship...
Oracle sponsors naming rights to SF Giants stadium, SailGP and renovates San Mateo Marriott(photos by MLB, hotel website and AP)

Oracle is investing heavily in repositioning the software vendor by creating new branding experiences for its customers. For more...
CEO Mark Hurd and EVP Evan Goldberg strengthen Oracle NetSuite’s vertical push

Oracle NetSuite is doubling down on its vertical strategy after solidifying its presence in the midmarket ERP space. The accelerated push comes after its $9.3-billion...
CEO Jean-Luc Robert at Kyriba Live and revenue milestones

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...
Scenes from MBX with CEO Mark Hurd(top left), CX customer references and EVP Steve Miranda on Oracle Cloud Apps momentum

At last month’s Modern Business Experience event, Oracle shed light on its latest Cloud applications strategy, while dispelling some myths and providing more context...
Atop of Cloud Top 500, Salesforce moved into its new headquarters in 2018. Photo credit from salesforcetower.com.

The Cloud Applications market expanded more rapidly in 2017 than previously expected and robust growth of leading vendors suggested that more breakout years could...
Co-founder and CTO Larry Ellison is determined to sustain and expand Oracle’s database franchise

At an Oracle OpenWorld reception last month, I mentioned to an Oracle executive that it was no longer business as usual at the 41-year-old...
SAP SuccessFactors President Greg Tomb(top) and SVP Products Amy Wilson speak at SuccessConnect

SAP SuccessFactors is unveiling a number of new products that play to the strengths of its parent. At its recent SuccessConnect annual conference, SAP SuccessFactors...
Applications that give Management control of Autonomous Priorities will proliferate to better support digital transformation initiatives

The convergence of autonomous software, artificial intelligence and machine learning applications is driving corporate spending, ushering a wave of digital transformation initiatives that could...
CEO Mark Hurd cites impressive growth of Oracle ERP Cloud

Preliminary results show the Cloud ERP applications market is on pace to expand significantly in 2018 with a growing number of customers adopting Cloud-native...
Jarred Smeltzer of BNY Mellon, Frank Calderoni of Anaplan, and Gina Farrell of Coca-Cola Speak At Anaplan Hub Event

The Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) applications market is riding on a wave of consolidations, heavy investments by customers and investors, along with a healthy...
Cloud Based Enterprise IT Market 2022 and Beyond

The 14 largest Cloud Computing vendors continued to gain shares in 2017, now accounting for 23% of the entire enterprise IT spend, up from...
From hire to retire, HCM continuum extends across 22 markets, 21 verticals

Our second annual HCM Top 500 Market Report highlights the achievements of more than 1,000 HCM applications vendors across 22 segments in three primary...
SAP CEO Bill McDermott and CFO Luka Mucic Tout Digital Growth At SAPPHIRE NOW

As customers are moving swiftly to embrace new technologies and transform themselves digitally, enterprise applications vendors are wasting no time to meet their needs. This...
Salesforce’s Mike Rosenbaum(left) and FinancialForce’s Tod Nielsen partner to expand in ERP apps market

Behind the massive, showy and glitzy Dreamforce event that attracted over 100,000 attendees in San Francisco stood FinancialForce, a $124 million developer that delivers...
Scenes from Oracle Open World with CTO Larry Ellison(left) and CEO Mark Hurd

Oracle OpenWorld, the annual customer conference of the leading database vendor, took on a different format with a more disciplined approach this year. Keynotes were...
Michael Kleinemeier heads SAP DBS, a big money-maker for SAP over the past decade

Despite having an incumbent advantage that earns SAP nearly €15 billion in maintenance and services revenues, the No. 1 Enterprise Resource Planning applications vendor...
The database giant finds new ways to differentiate Oracle Autonomous products that are almost invisible to users. (Image courtesy of North American International Auto Show)

Using #thinkautonomous as the recurring theme, Oracle kicked off a new round of database announcements yesterday to reassert its dominance in a market that...
Enterprise applications vendors are boosting service and support value and capabilities for a new generation of users

As Cloud services are changing the buying experiences for companies large and small, major vendors like Oracle and SAP are investing heavily in their...