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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Steve Singh heads SAP Business Networks, while Elena Donio runs Concur.

In April 2013 Concur CEO Steve Singh took his mountain bike out for a spin that ended with a wreck leaving him badly injured...

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...
SAP, Salesforce, IBM eye analytics as the panacea for containing soaring healthcare costs

The healthcare applications market is attracting a new class of players vying for a slice of the multi-trillion-dollar opportunity. In recent months, enterprise applications vendors...
New York Life’s Jon Feinstein recently went live with S/4HANA Finance

SAP is spinning up its financial and ERP applications strategy in order to become more entrenched with its biggest customers, a move that could...
Box aims to reinvent 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...
European Union braces for Grexit

Amid a possible economic meltdown in Greece, the European software market is bracing for a host of challenges that could derail a fragile recovery. Interviews...
Unit4’s Jose Duarte aims to boost Cloud revenues further

Unit4 intensified its vertical strategy with an acquisition of a higher-education ERP application vendor, while cozying up with Microsoft to better leverage its Azure...
Anaplan CEO Fred Laluyaux, left, leads customer panel with HP’s Sue Barsamian, McAfee’s Jeff Brobst, Diageo’s Stefan Househam, and Aviva’s Darren Craddock

In the new world of Cloud-based enterprise planning software, Anaplan has assembled considerable fire power to challenge a host of competitors from EPM incumbents...
Salesforce.com’s Mark Benioff(left) and Sage’s Stephen Kelly in global Cloud partnership

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...
NetSuite’s Zach Nelson(right) partners with Microsoft’s Satya Nadella

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...
SAP executives chairman Plattner(clockwise top left), CEO McDermott, Product Head Leukert and Business Network Chief Singh detail different traits of S/4HANA, HANA Cloud Platform

The big SAPPHIRENOW conference ended on a high note with Jennifer Lopez as headline entertainment and a fitting tribute to the new chapter of...
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...
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...
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 Bill McDermott is flanked by Bernd Leukert (L), its product chief, and Luka Mucic, who runs finance, at SAPPHIRENOW

SAP kicked off its biggest annual customer conference with a bang, or simply the unmistakable message of Run Simple. For a software company that has...
Simon Paris, Christoph Behrendt, Denise Broady (L to R) at SAP Industries Analyst Base Camp

On the eve of its biggest annual customer conference, SAP announced the Industry Cloud strategy with the goal of sustaining its momentum in 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...
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