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...

FinancialForce CEO Tod Nielsen trumpets speed as the new currency for the services economy, rewarding those that are willing to take risks, innovate and...
Sapphire 2018

In April 2018, SAP acquired CallidusCloud, which is the No. 1 vendor for Sales Performance Management, continuing its expansion across different functional areas of...
Oracle has quadrupled in size over a 15-year period aided by a number of key acquisitions in apps, infrastructure and the Cloud.

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 executives (l to r) Massimo Capoccia, Ziad Nejmeldeen, and Mayumi Hiramatsu talk up Infor innovation campaign

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...
Panel discussion at Oracle HCM World features Tony Kender of Oracle and customers YRC, Northwell Health, Direct TV, and Emerson.

Extending its Human Capital Management market reach, Oracle is jumping onto the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning bandwagon but with a twist that underscores...
President Thomas Kurian reveals what it takes for Oracle Cloud to succeed

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...
Koch Industries CFO Steve Feilmeier(left) and Infor CEO Charles Phillips at Inforum 2017

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...

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...
Larry Ellison of Oracle introduces 18c Autonomous Database at Open World 2017

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 CEO Mark Hurd lays out benefits of its Cloud, onpremise products

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...
Cloud-Based Enterprise IT Market 2021 and Beyond

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 Grew More In 2016, $B

The Cloud applications market in 2016 grew more rapidly than previously expected, suggesting that the gap between revenue bookings and revenues being recognized might...
Finance Pivots To The Cloud

As digital transformation pressures are redrawing the map of the business world, finance executives are embracing the latest Cloud technologies to help make these...
Chris Leone oversees Oracle HCM Cloud

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...