Cloud artificial intelligence presents some challenges that other cloud-based offerings do not.

Cloud is the company’s clear growth engine -- with revenue increasing about 32% last year to about 5 billion euros -- but driving change at SAP has sometimes been controversial.

Bill McDermott led Europe’s largest software company during a decade of major industry changes. SAP named Jennifer Morgan and Christian Klein as his successors.

Over the last year, Zendesk has taken a series of steps to compete head-to-head against Salesforce.com Inc. On Thursday, during a user conference in San Francisco, the company unveiled two more products meant to maintain sales momentum.

The value ascribed by Deutsche Bank to Google Cloud is nearly twice the market value of IBM.

This “bottom-up” business strategy has become a standard approach for cloud software aimed at businesses.

CEO Hurd touts cloud apps growth, "commanding lead" in accounting and HR apps.

HPE made the subscription announcement at its annual Discover conference in Las Vegas.

The takeover will mark Salesforce’s largest deal to date, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Cloudera became the latest -- and most extreme -- example after a dismal revenue forecast and leadership change sent the stock down more than 40% on Thursday.