Salesforce Sets Sights on $60B – What You Need to Know January 9, 2018 Adam Mansfield Reading Time: 3 minutes Parker Harris, CTO and Co-Founder of Salesforce, had a recent analyst presentation that made its way onto Twitter last week… Read More Categories: Cloud, Contract Negotiations, Salesforce
SAP Prescribes a Good Night’s Sleep: Q3 2017 Earnings Analysis October 25, 2017 Chip Hanna Reading Time: 3 minutes Based on SAP’s Q3 2017 earnings announcement on October 19th, its CEO Bill McDermott purports to be resting easy. But… Read More Categories: Cloud, Contract Negotiations, ERP Program Management, IT Sourcing, SAP
Can Your Oracle Cloud Renewal Get Stormy? September 29, 2017 Jeff Lazarto Reading Time: 3 minutes Oracle is ramping up to put a full court press on its installed base to migrate their perpetual license on-premise… Read More Categories: Cloud, Contract Negotiations, Oracle
Microsoft’s Azure: Confusion Leads to Profit September 5, 2017 Erik Bullard Reading Time: 3 minutes When an enterprise decides to adopt Microsoft’s Azure, they typically make an upfront financial commitment to Microsoft known as an… Read More Categories: Cloud, Microsoft
Salesforce.com Q2 Fiscal 2018 – Sights Set on $20B in Annual Revenue August 24, 2017 Adam Mansfield Reading Time: 3 minutes Salesforce.com (“Salesforce”) this week announced its second quarter results. They not only beat analyst revenue expectations, but they also, once… Read More Categories: Cloud, Salesforce
Software Audits Continue to Rise: Understand the Software Vendor’s Audit Playbook August 15, 2017 Len Riley Reading Time: 4 minutes Software vendors have developed an array of strategies and tactics to extract revenue from customers beyond an initial transaction. These… Read More Categories: Cloud, Deloitte, ERP Program Management, IT Sourcing, Oracle, SAP
Will SAP Competitors Fight the Indirect Access Madness? July 24, 2017 Jeff Lazarto Reading Time: 4 minutes Now that the public is aware of SAP’s Indirect Access rules after the recent lawsuits with Diageo and the arbitration… Read More Categories: Application Management Services, Cloud, ERP Program Management, Oracle, SAP
What the ‘New’ Microsoft Sales Overhaul Will Mean for Customers July 19, 2017 Adam Mansfield Reading Time: 4 minutes When Microsoft announced they would layoff up to 4,000 sales and marketing jobs in the early weeks of its new… Read More Categories: Cloud, Microsoft
Are SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft Making Bank in the Cloud? July 16, 2017 John Belden Reading Time: 2 minutes Over the past few years, cloud has been the growth engine of the software and consulting industry. The marketing machines… Read More Categories: Accenture, Cloud, Deloitte, ERP Program Management, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP
Stay Out of Security Breach Headlines: 3 Things That Must be Addressed in your Cloud Agreement June 29, 2017 Adam Mansfield Reading Time: 5 minutes It seems like you can’t go a day without reading a headline regarding yet another high-profile mass data and security… Read More Categories: Application Management Services, Cloud, ERP Program Management