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Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans

Cloud Wars analyzes the major cloud vendors from the perspective of business customers. In Cloud Wars Live, Bob Evans talks with both sides about these profoundly transformative technologies, and with monthly All-Star guests from across the business community about the trends impacting how the world lives, works, plays, and dreams. Visit https://cloudwars.com for more.

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00:01:47

Microsoft Copilot Exits WhatsApp: What Users Need to...

Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans ·

2025/12/04

In today's Cloud Wars Agent and Copilot Minute, I unpack why Microsoft Copilot will no longer be available on WhatsApp starting January 15 and what users should do next.Highlights00:03 — Starting January 15, Microsoft Copilot will no longer be available to users via WhatsApp. This feature has been offered since 2024, but due to changes in WhatsApp platform policies — which include the removal of all LLM chatbots, Copilot users will need to access the assistant through alternative means.00:30 —

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00:21:36

Inside Google Cloud’s Human-Centered AI Revolution |...

Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans ·

2025/12/03

In this Cloud Wars Live podcast, Bob Evans sits down with Hayete Gallot, President, Google Cloud Customer Experience, to explore how Google Cloud is helping enterprises move from AI experimentation to true business transformation. Gallot describes how her organization unifies engineering, consulting, partners, and learning to accelerate time-to-value and scale agentic AI across every function. Together, they dive into Gemini Enterprise, customer successes like Virgin Voyages, and why human-centered

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00:08:54

AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: Anywhere Real Estate's...

Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans ·

2025/12/03

Key TakeawaysCommunity involvement: Mary is a member of the programming committee board this year and will be attending the AI Agent & Copilot Summit, taking place from March 17th to 19th in San Diego, California. Working in the real estate industry, Mary acknowledges that, like individuals in all industries, there's a lot of AI transformations happening right now. "Being involved in this broader community is really exciting and energizing," she says.Summit expectations: She reports momentum as it

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00:02:26

Salesforce Completes Informatica Acquisition,...

Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans ·

2025/12/03

In today’s Cloud Wars Minute, I explore how Salesforce’s acquisition of Informatica strengthens its foundation for delivering trustworthy, agentic AI.Highlights00:04 — A few years back, when I was covering the cloud data management firm Informatica on a regular basis, the rumor mill was rife with speculation that the company was set to be acquired by Salesforce. It didn’t happen right away, but ultimately, that’s what transpired.00:22 — Now, Salesforce has announced that the acquisition is complete

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00:04:26

Workday Q3 Trifecta: 15% Rev. Growth, 17% Total RPO...

Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans ·

2025/12/02

In today's Cloud Wars Minute, I analyze why Workday’s $26B RPO signals strong future momentum in the face of SAP and Oracle.Highlights00:15 — Very nice Q3 that Workday recently finished here. Great revenue growth for the quarter ended October 31 — up 15% to about $2.25 billion. 17% growth for its total RPO, to about $8.2 billion. It's been cranking up the innovation engine there at Workday. Small AI-specific acquisitions over the last year or two have really been adding to this so customers have

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00:21:54

How SAP Is Reimagining Enterprise AI

Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans ·

2025/12/01

In this special Cloud Wars report, Bob Evans sits down with Michael Ameling, President and Chief Product Officer of SAP Business Technology Platform, for a deep dive into how SAP is helping customers navigate the fast-moving AI Era. Ameling and Evans discuss how SAP’s Business Data Cloud, partnerships with Snowflake and Databricks, HANA Cloud innovations, and new AI-powered tools and agents are helping SAP evolve from an applications powerhouse into a data-and-AI-driven business platform for the

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00:11:24

AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: VisualSP's Asif Rehmani...

Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans ·

2025/11/26

Information access: While many have Copilot licenses, usage is low beyond basic tasks like email and meeting summaries. The main challenge with adoption is providing guidance within apps like PowerPoint, Excel, Dynamics, and Word so users can access help exactly when they need it. This is something Rehmani's company, VisualSP, and his training platform, copilottrainingpackage.com, specialize in. "I'm a big proponent of giving people 'at the moment need' information," he notes.Training paths:

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00:02:31

A Thanksgiving Message: Peace, Gratitude, and What...

Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans ·

2025/11/26

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00:02:39

Microsoft, Anthropic, and NVIDIA Forge AI...

Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans ·

2025/11/25

In today's Cloud Wars Agent and Copilot Minute, I break down why this Microsoft-Anthropic-NVIDIA trio, spotlighted at Microsoft Ignite, may define the next phase of the AI Revolution.Highlights00:19 — Today, I want focus on a particularly significant partnership involving not one but three partners, collaborating in multiple ways across various fronts. The companies are Microsoft, of course, Anthropic, and NVIDIA. The trio is set to establish new strategic partnerships that, in my view, truly

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00:11:31

AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: John Accardi on...

Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans ·

2025/11/24

Key TakeawaysCareer journey and Microsoft involvement: While he's been in the industry for a long time, Accardi recounts being in the Microsoft arena for about 14 to 15 years. "My entire career has been around technology...and I have familiarity with various platforms," he notes. He has filled a range of roles, including sales leadership, marketing, product management, and more. Over the past several years, he has been "very heavily involved in the Microsoft alliance, their marketing, their

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00:05:10

Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian's Crowning Achievement

Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans ·

2025/11/24

In today's Cloud Wars Minute, I break down why Google Cloud’s new Gemini Enterprise may be Thomas Kurian’s most ambitious and most defining move yet.Highlights00:14 — One of the fastest-growing companies in the Cloud Wars Top 10 — and one that has been the most innovative, successful, and is definitely making a run at the number one spot — is Google Cloud. And I think that this week, as Thomas Kurian begins his eighth year as CEO of Google Cloud, he has recently pulled together what I'm calling his

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00:03:58

Microsoft Ignite: Renowned Futurists Map Out the Next...

Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans ·

2025/11/21

In today's Cloud Wars Agent and Copilot Minute, I look at how screen-aware Copilots, task-based agents, and multimodal interfaces are reshaping enterprise work — and why identity, permissions, and access guardrails now matter more than ever.Highlights00:30 — Two experts, Brian Madden, Vice President and Field Technology Officer and Futurist at Citrix, and Marco Casalaina, Vice President of Products, Core AI and an AI Futurist at Microsoft, hosted a session at this year's Microsoft Ignite conference

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00:05:20

Hottest in Cloud/AI: Palantir #1, Google Cloud #2,...

Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans ·

2025/11/20

In today's Cloud Wars Minute, I reveal how Palantir leapfrogged the competition with 63% cloud growth, shaking up the Cloud Wars Top 10.Highlights00:14 — Periodically, I do an update on what I call the Cloud Wars Growth Chart. The latest list shows that Palantir — new to the Cloud Wars Top 10 — is number one in fastest growth, by a long shot. Google Cloud, which for the last six quarters had been the fastest growing, is now in the number two spot. Oracle comes in at number three.01:06 — So let’s see

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00:04:18

AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: Stoneridge Software's...

Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans ·

2025/11/19

In this episode of the AI Agent & Copilot Podcast, John Siefert is joined by Eric Newell, CEO, Stoneridge Software, while on-site at Community Summit North America 2025, which took place October 19-23. Newell shares his takeaways from the conference, and what he expects the future of AI adoption to look like over the next 12-18 months.Key TakeawaysSummit NA buzz: Newell notes the prominence of AI and agents at Summit NA 2025. More specifically, the CRM Product Roadmap session highlighted the

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00:03:05

Workday's Acquisition of Sana Delivers AI-Enabled...

Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans ·

2025/11/19

In today's Cloud Wars Minute, I discuss Workday's acquisition of the enterprise knowledge and learning platform provider Sana, and what it means for customers.Highlights0:05 — Now,the understanding of the capabilities of LLMs has seeped from discussions among in-the-know business leaders into the general public. Personally, I don't know anyone who hasn't tried ChatGPT at least once. However, when it comes to leveraging LLMs and their associated technologies in a business context, it all comes down

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00:08:30

Elevaite365 Test Automation Turns Testing into a...

Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans ·

2025/11/18

In today's podcast, John Siefert sits down with Magnus Perri, CEO, elevaite365 Test Automation, and Michael Catterall, Product Lead, elevaite365 Test Automation, to unpack how AI is redefining testing in Dynamics 365 projects. They discuss why manual testing overwhelms business users, how elevaite365 Test Automation's platform automates and adapts with AI, and how a community-driven script library accelerates implementation. It's test automation built for real-world complexity and speed.AI Testing,

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00:05:17

SAP + Snowflake: Promiscuous Partnership Powerful +...

Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans ·

2025/11/18

In today's Cloud Wars Minute, I explore how tech rivals are becoming collaborators to better serve customer innovation.Highlights00:43 — I call SAP and Snowflake's recent announcement a promiscuous partnership that's powerful and promising. I'll try not to trip over too many more P’s here, but I think the point of this is we're seeing the promiscuous side: big tech companies that, you know, were very selective about how they worked with each other in the past.01:04 — I think now we're seeing that

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00:15:53

AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: LS Retail's Jeff Miller...

Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans ·

2025/11/17

In this episode of the AI Agent & Copilot Podcast, John Siefert hosts Jeff Miller, Vice President, Americas, LS Retail, for a discussion on LS Retail's position in its industry, how it supports organizations across the globe, integrating AI, and upcoming projects.Key TakeawaysAbout the company: LS Retail has been a leader in its industry from an ISV perspective. The company has been in the ecosystem for about 30 years, focusing on software development in the retail market. There are over 110,000

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00:05:16

Inside Palantir: Wildly Different Value Prop for...

Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans ·

2025/11/17

In today's Cloud Wars Minute, I take you inside Palantir’s wildly different approach to driving customer growth.Highlights00:14 — One of the companies causing a lot of disruption within the Cloud Wars Top 10 companies is Palantir, which recently reported its Q3 revenue up 63% to $1.12 billion, just growing incredibly fast and putting together a remarkable set of customers and customer references for what they’ve been able to do with Palantir. And I think this speaks to a very, very different

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00:28:35

Palantir Q3 Reveals New Deal Sizes, Shorter...

Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans ·

2025/11/17

In this special episode of Cloud Wars Live, Bob Evans speaks with Chad Wahlquist, Architect at Palantir, about the company’s explosive Q3 growth and the accelerating adoption of its AI Platform (AIP). They explore how AIP serves as an operating system for the enterprise, enabling customers to achieve global optimization, faster ROI, and model flexibility. Wahlquist also talks about Palantir’s open, interoperable architecture and its commitment to delivering value at speed, especially for customers

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