Larry Dignan reports that SAP has acquired SuccessFactors, suggesting this is the first step in a cloud rollup game. I'm not so sure but I do have a specific take on this. In Larry's analysis he ...

SuccessFactors Learning Continues To Innovate And Grow The L&D marketplace, which is over a $140 billion market in itself (Bersin by Deloitte core HR systems research, 2016 and 2017), is ...

SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott (Image via Wikipedia) Within its 176,000 customers around the globe, SAP has the far-flung potential to touch each of the 500 million people who work for those companies ...

SAP SESAP recently announced that its SAP SuccessFactors solutions for human capital management ("HCM") were deployed by L'OCCITANE Group, a natural ingredient-based cosmetics and well-being ...

Some analysts said the price SAP is paying for SuccessFactors was “nuts.” It’s a whopping 49 percent premium over SuccessFactors’ market value.

It supports more than 40 languages compared to Workday’s 35 languages. SAP SuccessFactors also enables global payroll to more than 40 countries, while Workday supports payroll in only 4 countries.

SAP needed SuccessFactors because its own software as a service efforts were weak. SAP now has cloud chops so it paid up and can cross sell.

SAP has announced plans to acquire cloud-based business software provider SuccessFactors for $40 per share, a 52 percent premium over the company’s closing price of $26.25 on December 2.

Workday is not updating its financial guidance for the fourth quarter of the current fiscal year ending January 31, 2017 or for the fiscal year ending January 31, 2018. Walmart currently uses SAP HCM ...

SAP was their key vendor and Siemens is very serious about the cloud. SAP picked the same vendor – us – that their customer – Siemens – did. So they were really excited.” Well, maybe so, but has that ...