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SAP Forum: where all roads lead to HANA

HANA, change, HANA, cloud, HANA. The SAP Forum in Birmingham reiterated the one plain truth: all roads lead to HANA.

SAP Forum: Life after Lars

Stuart hooks up with Thomas Otter, head of product at SuccessFactors to discuss SAP's HR future as he sees it. Forthright as always, Otter provides his 'broccoli and ice cream' perspective.

Partnering with SAP UK & Ireland User Group

SAP UK and Ireland User Group asked us to partner with them for media coverage. It would be an understatement to say we're excited. We like user groups that actively support customer interests. This is one such group.

Capgemini puts IaaS in its SkySights

Will Capgemini's SkySight alliance with Microsoft give it the IaaS cred it seeks as its cloud ambitions expand beyond their SaaS roots?

Oracle, Salesforce and the nature of 'co-opetition'

We left the 'Week That Changed The Cloud' with niggling questions at the back of our minds about the new relationship between Oracle and Salesforce.com. This week some more clarity from the Oracle camp - and an glimpse into the nature of co-opetition.

Perspectives on a cloud bromance

This week has seen one of the largest deals in enterprise software: Salesforce.com's nine year commitment to Oracle technology. In this final piece, we ask important outstanding questions and provide insights into what this means for customers.

Oracle and Netsuite - the last shoe drops

In the last of the big Oracle related announcements of the week, the company announces a strategic partnership with NetSuite. This is more of a win for NetSuite than Oracle in the short term but a bigger win for Oracle in its efforts to blanket the market. There are plenty of questions for customers to consider.

Oracle, Salesforce & things that make me go 'hmmm...'

Thursday will see Marc Benioff and Larry Ellison standing together and talking in unison instead of standing apart and firing barbs at one another. Will they have answers to all the questions surrounding their new union?

Oracle and Salesforce.com - blowing up the cloud?

Oracle and Salesforce are new BFF. Armchair quarterbacks will be disappointed at the detente between the two companies but there is a serious intent behind the announcement of a deal which see Salesforce.com implement Oracle Fusion HCM and Financials along with strengthening its ties on the database front. This post looks at the implications for the applications landscape.

SAPAMZNORCLMSFT - the old new apps infrastructure landscape

Does the Oracle and Microsoft alliance represent a significant change or a clarification of the existing market? My take is it is more of the latter than the former.

Oracle, Microsoft - peace in our time?

Oracle and Microsoft have declared a truce in the cloud that benefits both of them and should benefit the enterprise consumer of cloud infrastructure and services. Peace in our time?

Oracle in transition, just like SAP - only different

Oracle's earnings miss should not surprise. The company is transitioning to the cloud. More important, it is transitioning its entire business. Comparisons with SAP are inevitable but we must wait to see how the market shakes out.

Larry Ellison: I'll "reshape the cloud" next week

Larry Ellison plans to reshape the cloud next week - with a bit of help from NetSuite, Salesforce.com and Microsoft. Not bad for someone who used to struggle even to say the word 'cloud'.