Trend Report

Are The Biggest Enterprise Software Vendors Now The Best Cloud Platform Bets?

IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, And SAP As Cloud Platform Vendors

John Rymer
 and  seven contributors
Oct 07, 2015

Summary

Public cloud platforms are a foundation for applications that win, serve, and retain customers. The four largest enterprise software providers did relatively little to drive adoption of cloud platforms; only Microsoft is both a strategic enterprise vendor and a cloud leader. But here come the other three of the Big Four; IBM, Oracle, and SAP at last have credible public cloud platform strategies and are committed to cloud business models. This report helps application development and delivery (AD&D) leaders assess the positions and potential of the Big 4 as enterprise cloud platform providers.

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