Cloud Computing: Enterprise apps -The state of the big players

Grazed from ZDNet.  Author: Larry Dignan.

The enterprise application landscape is shifting, but Microsoft and Adobe appear to have momentum as the entrenched players stay strong, but technology buyers are looking to date around and pick new winners.  Here’s a graph that shows a quick look at the prime enterprise software vendors surfaced in our TechPro Research survey.  Now let’s take a deeper dive;

Microsoft takes a lot of hits for Windows 8 and its mobile strategy, but the company’s enterprise division is humming. In fact, Microsoft may be one of the better positioned enterprise software vendors in the stack. The company has moved to the cloud in good measure, has a strong installed base and is showing double-digit growth for Windows Server, Lync, SharePoint and Exchange. Commercial "other" revenue—largely comprised of cloud offering such as Office 365 and Microsoft Azure—was up 31 percent in the most recent quarter to $1.9 billion…


Adobe is another company that is well positioned. Why? Adobe has the most complete marketing cloud stack in a field filled with much larger rivals. Adobe has been continuously ahead of the curve and acquired key parts of its marketing cloud well before giants like Oracle started gobbling up players. Adobe has also managed to transition to the cloud model and away from licensing better than most. In many respects, Adobe’s transition to the cloud showed other enterprise software vendors they could too. More: Is Adobe a marketing player now? | Adobe bolsters Marketing Cloud, launches core services, iBeacon support…

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