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Cornerstone Spark Odyssey Finds New Packaging, Partners

Cornerstone is entering a new phase of its galactic journey by incorporating digital agents into its marketing blitz designed to make next-generation learning management...
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...
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...
As NetSuite displaces ERP rivals, EVP Evan Goldberg(top left) goes full suite ahead with SVP Gary Wiessinger(lower right) detailing his product plans at SuiteWorld

Buoyed by its recent acquisitions, Oracle NetSuite is expanding rapidly into asset-heavy industries while continuing to capitalize on Cloud ERP displacement opportunities. At last week’s...
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 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...
John Elliot, owner of Davidson Chocolate Co. in Davidson, N.C., and a Sage customer, meets Sage bus.

After years of expanding via acquisitions and strategy shifts, Sage appears to have finally found the right engine to power its growth. Sage, the world’s...
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...

Concur Technologies Inc., the travel and expense management applications juggernaut, has stuck to its tried-and-true formula of helping business travelers ease the pain associated...
CEO Steve Murphy of Epicor embarks on AI journey

Almost three years after its last ownership changes, Epicor is firing on all cylinders to drive its ERP offerings into key verticals, capitalize on...
Epicor in Boston with CEO Steve Murphy, left to right, customers Nicholas Mueller of Enjet Aero, Tessa Kalarickal of Coghlin, Chris Brackett of CW Hayden and Lisa Pope of Epicor

Working mostly behind the scenes, Epicor has become a driving force for a whole swath of essential industries from retail to manufacturing that need...
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...
Zoho Goes All-In for ERP Expansion Despite Risks

Zoho minces no words about its intention to become a major ERP application provider in the years to come, despite all the talks about...
EVP Evan Goldberg of Oracle NetSuite, upper left, touts ERP successes among fast-growing companies at SuiteWorld in Las Vegas

After years of expanding its reach into the SMB market, Oracle NetSuite is adding bells and whistles to the suite that will help its...
Scenes from UKG Aspire conference (clockwise from top left) – Chief Product & Technology Officer Hugo Sarrazin, CEO Chris Todd and Executive Chair Aron Ain, UKG Life-work Technology Labs startup participants.

Recasting its imprint on the HCM applications market, UKG is determined to break with tradition by jettisoning legacy products and streamlining its public cloud...
Oracle Showcases AI at CloudWorld, SuiteWorld

This month, Oracle is trumpeting AI as the key enabler for enterprise IT. Apps Run The World will be interviewing executives, partners and customers...
Oracle Model How AI Changes Everything

The historical run of Oracle catapulted the vendor to new heights in valuation and projected revenues, and its recent AI World provided the perfect...
Oracle NetSuite Expands Cloud ERP with AI Applications, Tools - APPS RUN THE WORLD

Oracle NetSuite moved swiftly to deploy AI applications and tools designed to make financial closing and planning, bank transaction matching, reporting, pricing, and coding...
HCM AI Agents Sync Up Value For All Parties Involved

Despite their go-to-market differences, HCM applications vendors are rallying behind AI agents at a time when the overall market for Core HR, talent and...
Chris Todd, the new CEO of UKG, is presented with a champion belt by Jennifer Brafman Staffen of UKG Corporate Communications during a June 2022 Analyst Relations event in Fort Lauderdale, FL

UKG unveiled a slew of product and organizational initiatives including the appointment of a new CEO as the HCM and workforce management applications powerhouse...
NetSuite’s AI Push Powers Growth For SMBs

NetSuite is jumpstarting the use of AI among thousands of its small and midsized customers in lockstep with their desire to grow exponentially through...
IFS Spreads Its Industrial Wings Beyond the AI Hype

In today’s race for AI software dominance, there is never a straight line that takes any company from zero to 100 and IFS is...
Epicor Expects 11% Growth in FY24 By Going Steady On AI

The wisdom of Epicor shines through as it preps to parlay its successes in ERP midmarket into the AI bonanza. By focusing on such...
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...
Cornerstone Pivots to Workplace AI On Demand

True to its name, Cornerstone OnDemand pivots on a moment’s notice as the HCM learning software vendor embarks on a replatforming effort after a...
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...

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...
Salesforce.com Steers Social Enterprise Movement Amid Cloudy Outlook

With growing signs of leading one of the most important segments of the enterprise applications market, Salesforce.com embodies the disruptive power of Cloud-based delivery...
Morgan Siegler of TA Associates(left) and CEO Mike Ettling at Unit4 Analyst Event in Boston

After slimming down by disposing nine businesses and repositioning itself under a new owner, Unit4 has come full circle to focus on its core...
SAPPHIRE NOW kickstarts SAP Cloud

What a difference a year has made SAP! At last year’s SAPPHIRE NOW, I raised a few thorny questions about SAP’s Cloud viability and its...