New CEO Thomas Kurian lays out his vision for Google Cloud
Since being appointed, Thomas Kurian has kept a low public profile, embarking on a broad listening brief across a business he believes can compete with AWS.
View ArticleFive takeaways from Slack's IPO filing
Hot enterprise collaboration software maker Slack has filed its S-1 to go public today, giving our first real insight into its financials and market anxieties.
View ArticleHow the Bank of England is modernising its systems for the future
The Bank of England is looking to modernise its technology platform to open up its payments infrastructure to smaller fintech players, better manage the proliferation of data, and leverage advanced...
View ArticleWhy the US tech giants are uninterested in getting into open banking
US tech giants Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google - or FAANG as they are collectively known - have shown little appetite to jump into the UK's financial services market under new open banking...
View ArticleIs unified billing the elephant in the room when it comes to SaaS?
According to its 2019 Business @ Work report, identity management platform Okta found that large enterprises have on average of 163 enterprise applications in their estate. This highlights the...
View ArticleSAP commits to Experience Management following Qualtrics acquisition
Three months after completing its acquisition of the Utah-based SaaS vendor Qualtrics, SAP is bringing 'experience management' capabilities to its customers with a set of 10 initial use cases.
View ArticleLessons learned from an S/4HANA public cloud migration by Spirit Airlines
Budget US airline Spirit is in the process of moving from SAP's legacy ECC enterprise resource planning (ERP) software to S/4HANA public cloud but it has had to overcome some challenges on the way to...
View ArticleWith Constellation, DataStax wants to make Apache Cassandra 'push button' easy
DataStax has made its name in helping enterprise customers get to grips with the highly scalable NoSQL Apache Cassandra open source database. Now it's looking to drastically simplify the technology and...
View ArticleTableau CEO eyes 'time machine leap forward' after Salesforce acquisition
Salesforce acquired Tableau in a $15.7 billion all-stock deal last month, making it the CRM giant's biggest acquisition by some distance.
View ArticleAsics to bring runners better workout data after Snowflake shift
Asics Digita recently shifted its data warehouse from a creaking Amazon Redshift instance to Snowflake's cloud-native solution.
View ArticleSalesforce goes vertical with manufacturing and consumer goods 'clouds'
Salesforce is pushing forward with packaging elements of its SaaS stack for industries, launching Consumer Goods Cloud and Manufacturing Cloud.
View ArticleAfter nine years, Bill McDermott is stepping down as SAP CEO
SAP has announced that CEO Bill McDermott will not be renewing his contract and will be stepping down as the CEO of SAP after a nine year tenure, with Christian Klein and Jennifer Morgan taking over,...
View Article"Data silos are good" according to Splunk CEO Doug Merritt
The CEO of Splunk is doubling down on his belief that data silos are not the enterprise bogeyman they are often made out to be.
View ArticleHow the Phantom acquisition changed Splunk's approach to automation
The future is increasingly looking automated for the machine data cruncher Splunk as customers look to ease the burden on analysts grappling with higher alert volumes, and since the acquisition of...
View ArticleHow Marcus by Goldman Sachs stood up its monitoring in under a day
The observability team in charge of maintaining the health of Goldman Sachs' new digital saving and lending platform Marcus had to quickly stand up a Splunk instance to monitor its logs and establish...
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