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...
As Cloud applications market heats up, SAP Chairman Hasso Plattner(left), CEO Bill McDermott(right) aim to prevail in new climate

On the last day of the huge SAPPHIRENOW conference, a trio of standup comedians appeared on stage lampooning everything under the sun with one...
Keith Block joins Salesforce.com as new president

Salesforce.com said it named Keith Block, formerly executive vice president of Oracle, as its new president and vice chairman, following a series of new...
With hybris, SAP is zeroing in on a full spectrum of eCommerce activities

A day after Salesforce.com’s $2.5-billion deal to buy social CRM vendor ExactTarget, SAP announced its plan to acquire hybris, a Zug, Switzerland-based ISV specializing...
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...