Top line growth is the aphrodisiac that keeps Cloud vendors going.

When Salesforce.com announced its first quarter fiscal 2014 earnings two weeks ago, I made the prediction that it would make a major acquisition in...
Intuit, a company best known for its intuitive applications from TurboTax and QuickBooks

For Intuit, a company best known for its intuitive applications from TurboTax and QuickBooks, innovation has always been one of its key differentiators. Lately...
Food distributor Sysco revamps CRM systems

On the heels of one of the worst recessions in history, large organizations have started investing in business transformation projects that could breathe new...
Dassault products have been a constant presence at Daimler and its past and current subsidiaries.

The day before Thanksgiving, Siemens PLM dropped a bombshell on the automotive vertical by announcing the winning of Daimler AG as its latest CAD...
Salesforce.com’s venture into the platform play is fraught with challenges.

In the annals of the software industry, it’s often a zero sum game when vendors start jockeying for new positions in an effort to...
Deltek’s perseverance has begun to pay off as it parlays its domain expertise into new market opportunities and expanded product offerings

With a knack of automating professional services organizations and government contractors, Deltek has what it takes to steer these customers and ultimately reshape the...
Business Analytics For the Masses

There has been a lot of talk about the merits of business analytics, which is a cut above what business intelligence can do, but...
SAP Business ByDesign

The conventional wisdom is that SAP has been particularly successful selling into heavy industries. After all, it got its start in the 1970s developing...
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...
SAP SuccessFactors

The completion of SAP’s acquisition of SuccessFactors raises as many questions about the future of SAP as there are about its past. One of the...
Oracle Cloud

As an avid enterprise IT watcher, I am constantly amazed at the uncanny ability of Oracle to reinvent itself after relying on its bread-and-butter...
Chakib Bouhdary - SAP

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...
Desperate Techies

Seismic shifts in the technology world have sparked a wave of unlikely partnerships involving desperate vendors pairing up with one another in order to...
Travel and Expense

This applications market sizing report focuses on the 2010 performance of the top 10 applications vendors in the travel and expense management applications market. As...
Human Capital Management Applications Market 2010-2015

This applications market sizing report focuses on the 2010 performance of the top 10 applications vendors in the human capital management applications market. The HCM market...
ERP Market

This applications market sizing report focuses on the 2010 performance of the top 10 applications vendors in the enterprise resource planning applications market. With the global...
Oracle Siebel Roadmap

Countering common perceptions that Siebel is not growing, Oracle is reaffirming its commitment to the granddaddy of customer relationship management applications amid sweeping changes...

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...
R&D

Samsung Electronics Co., the crown jewel of Korean chaebol Samsung Group, again topped research and development spending among the world’s largest technology companies in...
Big Data Survey

In one of the biggest surveys of Big Data implementations, Apps Run The World found first-generation vendors such as Teradata and IBM have continued...