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...
Under One Roof, MBX Deconstructs Myths, Realities, Customer Data of Oracle Cloud Apps
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...
Salesforce Leads Cloud Top 500 As Market Has Expanded More Rapidly Than Expected
The Cloud Applications market expanded more rapidly in 2017 than previously expected and robust growth of leading vendors suggested that more breakout years could...
Oracle OpenWorld Goes Global As Feisty Ellison Rebuilds His Business In Bid To Double...
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 Puts Intelligent Apps To Work In HR Transformation
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...
Enterprises Map Autonomous Priorities With Vendors Driving AI, ML And Next-Generation Apps Development
The convergence of autonomous software, artificial intelligence and machine learning applications is driving corporate spending, ushering a wave of digital transformation initiatives that could...
First Take on 2018 Cloud ERP Applications Market With Oracle Leading the Pack
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...
Connected Planners and Finance Wizards Excel By Riding On Robust EPM Growth
The Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) applications market is riding on a wave of consolidations, heavy investments by customers and investors, along with a healthy...
First Look At 2017-2022 PaaS, IaaS, SaaS Markets As 14 Top Cloud Computing Billionaires...
The 14 largest Cloud Computing vendors continued to gain shares in 2017, now accounting for 23% of the entire enterprise IT spend, up from...
HCM Top 500 Leaderboard Showcases Biggest HR Apps Vendors Vying To Dominate In Scores...
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...
Apps Top 500 Expands With SAP Leading The Pack Amid Digital Transformation
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...
Pairing FinancialForce With Salesforce To Serve Up Perfect ERP Bundles
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...
Oracle OpenWorld Highlights Autonomous Database, OCI In New Format
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...
SAP Casts A Safety Net To Extend, Innovate Enterprise Service and Support
Despite having an incumbent advantage that earns SAP nearly €15 billion in maintenance and services revenues, the No. 1 Enterprise Resource Planning applications vendor...
Oracle Steers Customers To Think Autonomous As Next Database
Using #thinkautonomous as the recurring theme, Oracle kicked off a new round of database announcements yesterday to reassert its dominance in a market that...
Oracle Aims To Rewrite the Rules for Enterprise Service and Support
As Cloud services are changing the buying experiences for companies large and small, major vendors like Oracle and SAP are investing heavily in their...
FinancialForce.com Among Cloud Top 500
FinancialForce CEO Tod Nielsen trumpets speed as the new currency for the services economy, rewarding those that are willing to take risks, innovate and...
SAP Among Cloud Top 500 Software Vendors
In April 2018, SAP acquired CallidusCloud, which is the No. 1 vendor for Sales Performance Management, continuing its expansion across different functional areas of...
As Oracle Ends A Pivotal FY18, Maximizing Enterprise Value Comes Into Focus
Ending its fiscal 2018 this May with record-breaking revenues of nearly $40 billion, Oracle is opening up a new chapter by positioning the 41-year-old...
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...
Oracle HCM World Highlights HR Executives Embarking On Digital Journeys Without Hesitation
Extending its Human Capital Management market reach, Oracle is jumping onto the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning bandwagon but with a twist that underscores...
Oracle Among Cloud Top 500 Software Vendors
Assembling all the pieces needed to win in the Cloud, Oracle is in it for the long haul. That’s the conclusion of a full-day analyst...
Infor Among Cloud Top 500 Software Vendors
Koch Industries CFO Steve Feilmeier (left) and Infor CEO Charles Phillips at Inforum 2017. Infor’s transformation is fast and furious as the ERP vendor embraces...
Salesforce Leads Cloud Top 500 As Market Has Nearly Doubled To $57B Since 2013
This year’s Cloud Top 500 report highlights another salient fact in the applications marketplace – change is the name of the game. With the market...
Oracle Banks Its Future On 18c, New Cloud Apps, But Key Questions Linger
The Oracle Open World conference was a showcase of the vendor’s latest database technologies and Cloud applications innovations with few surprises, but a number...
Oracle Cloud Posts Robust Growth In PaaS and SaaS, While Investing Heavily In IaaS
As Oracle makes its way to transform itself into a Cloud-first vendor, the database kingpin provides proof points that it can win across the...
PaaS, IaaS, SaaS Markets Hit $109B in 2016, Elevating 13 Top Cloud Computing Vendors...
Thirteen Cloud Computing vendors chalked up more than $1 billion in annual recurring revenues each in 2016, widening their lead over rivals in Enterprise...
Cloud Apps Market Reached $57B in 2016, Exceeding Previous Forecast
The Cloud applications market in 2016 grew more rapidly than previously expected, suggesting that the gap between revenue bookings and revenues being recognized might...
Cutting Complexity and Championing Smart Expense Management
As digital transformation pressures are redrawing the map of the business world, finance executives are embracing the latest Cloud technologies to help make these...
Oracle HCM Cloud Stages A Strong Comeback
Oracle, never one to cede ground to any of its software rivals, is making a strong comeback for its evolving HCM Cloud strategy. At a...