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...
SAP Steps Up Run Simple Message With A Twist
The second day of the giant SAPPHIRENOW conference took the Run Simple message one notch higher with SAP executives and customers providing more examples...
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...
Oracle’s Growing Ecosystem of Mutual Customers Gain Intelligent Touchless Business Processes
For years, Oracle was considered one of the few technology vendors capable of selling enterprise databases, applications, and cloud services all under one roof....
Zoho’s Long Game To Win In Enterprise Apps Rests With Kinder, Gentler Endgame
Having amassed more than 100 million users, Zoho has loftier goals than just dominating many segments of the enterprise applications market.
With operations all over...
Sage, Salesforce Join Forces To Go Live With Sage Life
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...
Power Broker Propels SAP Customer Value
Chakib Bouhdary has the new title of Chief Customer Value Officer of SAP, having served as a key advisor to co-CEO Bill McDermott for...
Zoho Breaks Rules By Offering CRM For Everyone
Replicating its successes in bundling purpose-built software packages, Zoho is aiming to redefine the customer relationship management applications market by introducing CRM for Everyone.
Unveiling...
Customers Switch to Oracle Cloud Apps From Aging Legacy Systems
Oracle is turning up the heat on the digital transformation race among customers by showing them the benefits of switching to its Cloud applications...
SAP SuccessFactors Pushes Cloud Platform and Integration Beyond its HCM Apps
SAP’s Cloud platform and integration strategy is gathering momentum as the enterprise software heavyweight is pushing its stack beyond the boundaries...
UnBoxing The New World Of 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...
SAP Analytics Cloud Aims To Solve Enterprise Decision Support Puzzle
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 Extends Brand Value On Multiple Fronts
The big SAPPHIRENOW conference ended on a high note with Jennifer Lopez as headline entertainment and a fitting tribute to the new chapter of...
Concur Fusion
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...
SAP Faces the Inconvenient Truth
On the last day of the huge SAPPHIRENOW conference, a trio of standup comedians appeared on stage lampooning everything under the sun with one...
SAP Has Zero 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...
Zoho Promises Back To The Cloud Future
Zoho is not a household name in the US enterprise applications market, but that’s about to change if the privately-held vendor has its way.
Founded...
UKG Trains Focus On Bryte AI, SMB, Workplace Recognition
Nearly four years after the creation of UKG, the HCM software powerhouse is seizing the window of opportunity to expand further into everything from...
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...
Oracle NetSuite Positions To Become AI Smart and Ready
Oracle NetSuite’s Generative AI strategy is beginning to take shape just as many of its customers are clamoring for next-generation digital assistants and agents...
Oracle Dials Up Turnkey AI To Fuse Analytics, Fusion Apps
Oracle is ratcheting up turnkey AI capabilities across an extensive product portfolio by adding tangible value to its Analytics and Fusion Applications offerings with...
Oracle NetSuite Expands Cloud ERP with AI Applications, Tools
Oracle NetSuite moved swiftly to deploy AI applications and tools designed to make financial closing and planning, bank transaction matching, reporting, pricing, and coding...
IFS Turns Assets Into Industrial AI Advantage
With a laser focus on automating the operations of manufacturers and asset-intensive industries, IFS is turning Generative AI into an asset both literally and...
UKG Overhauls Operations as CEO Makes Preemptive Moves
Jennifer Morgan, who became CEO of UKG in 2024, is shaking things up at the No. 1 workforce management apps vendor by taking a...
NetSuite Partners With Microsoft, Signs Amex GBT
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Oracle Mounts Multi-Cloud Charm Offensive Against AI Hype
Oracle is taking the high road by reiterating its open stance, sticking to a value-based pricing model, and even playing nice these days, a...






























