Partnerships

Now more than ever, partnerships have become a main driving factor into ecosystem growth. Do you have a strong partner dynamic?

A compelling question: with their new deal, is Goldman Sachs getting into the cloud business, or is Amazon jumping into financial services?

In reading the material put out by ServiceNow & Celonis, my sense is that the companies are wisely giving customers a set of options.

The recent Amazon-Workday reset and Workday’s subsequent engagement with Google Cloud underscore the need for cloud-ecosystem nimbleness.

Deutsche Bank recently disclosed a slew of innovations and goals it has already engineered as part of its 10-year deal with Google Cloud.

Chief Partner Officer Karl Fahrbach said co-innovation of cloud IP solutions is now the fastest-growing part of the SAP biz w/ partners.

Flexing its industry cloud muscles, the world’s most-influential cloud provider Microsoft has taken over #4 on the Industry Cloud Top 10.

Within the careful press release about AT&T moving its 5G mobile network to the Microsoft Azure for Operators cloud is another message.

It appears that Salesforce is turning a cold shoulder to Google Cloud, even as its cloudmances with Amazon and Microsoft draw attention.

A newly assertive and re-energized IBM is moving in to extend and enrich its 50-year strategic relationship with SAP.

I’ve seen speculation that Google Cloud will be the big winner as it swoops in to become the preferred cloud-infrastructure partner for SAP.

The expanded Amazon deal with TCS gives AWS more of a presence in the mainframe world it has sought for 15 years to replace.

Walmart, Accenture, UPS and GE all went live on Workday HCM in Q3, with those 4 companies representing almost 3 million new users.

Guest author Jiri Kram explores what Larry Ellison’s unexpected frontal attack on Salesforce could mean for AWS.

In a CX event earlier this week, Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison made two striking disclosures about Oracle’s growing relationship with Zoom.

Why I feel that Bill McDermott and ServiceNow could deliver meaningful impact and value to much-larger vendors SAP, Salesforce, and Oracle.

Can Microsoft and Google compete fiercely enough to win in revenue and collaboratively enough to keep peace with their major partners?

First in a 10-part series on the biggest challenge facing each of the Cloud Wars Top 10: Microsoft has forged lots of partnerships. Can it keep them?

While CEO Christian Klein insists that SAP owns all of its customer relationships, I see signs that its partnership with Google Cloud is deepening.

Building on an alliance launched half a century ago, IBM and SAP are calling their new initiative “the evolution partnership.”