8 years ago036Summary
SAP announced an exceptionally strong quarter to end a strong year.
SAP enjoyed spectacular growth in cloud revenue of 75% in constant currency coupled with double-digit growth in software licenses.
Company announced general availability of its Native Mode Cloud offering called S/4 Hanna which brings its product...
8 years ago048Oracle is holding court with analysts ahead of its CloudWorld conference in New York as it makes its case that its as-a-service strategy can offset its on-premise business.
Oracle is moving closer to what some analysts predict will be a cloud moment of truth for its big transition to a subscription-based business model and the company...
8 years ago052China's second largest e-commerce company, JD.com, raised $1 billion in new funding for its consumer finance subsidiary, JD Finance.
Investors included Sequoia Capital China, China Harvest Investments, and China Taiping Insurance. The new financing values JD Finance at $7 billion, and the e-commerce giant will continue to have a...
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Deloitte Global predicts in 2016 more than 80 of the world’s 100 largest enterprise software companies will have integrated cognitive technologies into their products, a 25% increase on the prior year.
Gartner predicts the use of connected things in the enterprise will drive $868B in spending in 2016.
Enterprise 3-D printing...
8 years ago038As companies in every industry strive to become end-to-end digital enterprises, Oracle CEO Safra Catz—who earlier in her career led that very transformation at Oracle—offers this advice: “The attitude you need to have is not ‘think outside of the box.’ Instead, it’s ‘don’t even see the box.’”
These profound...
8 years ago039When it comes to business growth, the most pressing problems include a scarcity of funding and a shortage of human capital.
The solution? A sound relationship between the chief financial officer (CFO) and the chief human resources officer (CHRO). But CFOs and CHROs don’t always have their goals aligned: Their perspectives can be...
8 years ago037It’s far too early to count Oracle out of the database wars. According to a new report from DB-Engines, a site that tracks the popularity of database technologies, Oracle was not only the most widely used and discussed database in the world in 2015, it was also saw the most growth in those areas last year as well, at least by one...