My Ready Reckoner - If You Ever Wanted to refer to a Point of View on Top Cloud Players

My Ready Reckoner - If You Ever Wanted to refer to a Point of View on Top Cloud Players

The Field is crowded.  There are lists of Top Cloud Players.  However these lists do not paint a good enough picture for me.

Some Cloud Players are good at some pieces of the puzzle; some have all the pieces of the puzzle. Some have built the pieces of the Cloud on their own and some have just acquired.  Some Cloud Players are Enterprise Class while some others are more SME friendly.  Some Cloud Players are continuously investing, whereas some others are running out of money.

Is there a place to go to and pick up a view on Top Cloud Players and get answers to the following Big Qs?

• Who are the Players at the Top who get referred to in many of the Cloud Players lists?
• Do these Players play across the Cloud Spectrum, SaaS (Apps) – PaaS (Platforms) – IaaS (Compute Infra, Storage & Network)
• Do they have a good eco-system of Partners who extend their offerings giving me additional choices?
• Have these Players invested and playing for the long term – so my commitments with them can be long term?
• Are they acquiring and consolidating market presence and bringing in features?
• Do they bring Enterprise Class Apps, Platform and Infra?
• Are they flexible enough with Pay-as-you-go or will I be driven to upfront Pay Commitments?

There is no place to go to get a view without reading tonnes of content.  So I prepared one for myself, here it is.

A Point of View on Top Cloud Vendors - Ready Reckoner – to answer those Big Qs.

My Ready Reckoner - If You Ever Wanted to refer to a Point of View on Top Cloud Players

Cloud Player	SaaS !	PaaS !	IaaS !	Remarks
Amazon	    Does not offer SaaS on its own     However, check out 3rd Party products offered via AWS SaaS Partner Program	    Quickly gaining market share     Specializing in Mobile, Analytics & IoT dev platforms     Makes Partner Products available as Platforms for subscribe & use	    Early entrant, creator & Leader of the market     20%+ market share of 20B+ market in 2016	    Primarily an IaaS player     Built from scratch with a vision to sell as a service     Industry benchmark for Compute & Storage offerings and price points
Salesforce	    Early entrant & trend setter in CRM space     Does not seem to have appetite to invest & expand into building  Apps in other  functional areas	    Evolved into a leading PaaS Playerwith Force.com     Introducing IoT solutions too	    Does not seem keen on this area at this time	    SaaS & Paas Player     Leader in SaaS revenues     PaaS Offering is growing fast     Partner Marketplace App Exchange offers add-on choices
Oracle	    Leading Player with Enterprise Class SaaS Apps. Invested heavily to build ground up SaaS suite. Large Client base.     Covers all of HCM, Fin, SCM, Proc     Continues to re-build all EBS/PSFT modules to SaaS      Also acquiring products to offer Industry specialization	    Enterprise Class offering in place     Dominant Leader in Development Platform Products space     Keen to convert leadership from Oracle Database, Middleware, Sun-Java, Weblogic into PaaS dominance     IoT Solutions are picking up	    Enterprise grade Infra strength from the Sun acquisition     Later entrant. Might stay content to be seen as End2End Cloud Player by its large incumbent client base & use IaaS to deploy its PaaS based landscape, and On-Prem customers	    End2End Cloud Player     Criticized Cloud a few years back. Now Invested heavily & talks only about Cloud (Fusion Apps)     Successful with extending home grown offerings with acquisitions like Taleo, Eloqua     Large Partner Marketplace offers add-on choices
Microsoft	    Office 365 is seeing big growth as SaaS     Dynamics ERP, CRM Online, Sharepoint, are available     Check out Azure Web Apps Marketplace for 3rd Party Apps     Does not seem to build ground up SaaS solutions in other areas	    Azure offers every dev tool Microsoft has - .Net, Java, Python, Ruby..     Specializing in Mobile, Analytics, IDM & Integration Areas     IoT & Cortana based Bigdata Analyticscould see big growth	    Late entrant. Playing Catch up with AWS. Investing heavily into creating Infra in various regions of the world (30+)     Offers all Compute, Storage & Networking	    End2End Player for SME market     IaaS could be big focus areas in near future
IBM	    Offerings coverAnalytics (Watson, Cognos) Commerce(CRM, Merchandising, Proc, Payments) andsome points solutions in HCM, Fin, Asset Management  etc Focus seems to be on migrating on-prem Products to be offered on Cloud	    WebSphere Libertyhelps build J2EE apps     Products for Mobility, App management, Integration, Process Management, Service Desk Management, etc are now part of its Cloud platform	    Quickly catching up with both AWS & Azure     Advantage of a global DC footprint     Private Cloud as a Service (PCaaS) offering	    Not leading any segment at this time.     PCaaS offers a pragmatic view to tap reality of the Hybrid service options
SAP	    SuccessFactors in HCM space, Cloud4Customer in CRM space, Concur in Expense Mgmt, Ariba in SCM/Proc lead the field     Offers all traditional SAP on-prem products in Fin, Proc, CRM also on Cloud with HANA     Large customer base.	    SAP HANA has been successfully positioned as PaaS for building new solutions, integrations to on-prem, as well as extending SaaS solutions	    Might not compete as a generic Infra player with AWS, Azure or IBM. But stays focused on offering Infra solutions to its client base to move to Cloud	    End to End Player, however, SAP continues to stay focused as a Business Software company     SAP has been successful buying its way into SaaS space, with products like SuccessFactors, Concur, Ariba
Netsuite	    Focused on Fin, CRM, Ecom space     Large SME client base     Building presence in Manufacturing space	    Providing its tool kit to extend its products & integrate to third party apps	    Not into IaaS play	    Constantly rumored to be an acquisition target
Workday	    Trendsetter in HCM space and has a market leading product     Has large client base     Expanded in Financials	    Not into PaaS play	    Not into IaaS Play	    Played the disruptor in the HCM space and forced Oracle & SAP play catching up
Google	    Google Apps for Work Productivity     No business SaaS products for business functions     However, Partners offer products built on Google platform	    Offers Dev Platforms, Cloud SDK, Mobile, Commerce & other tools     Machine Learning Platform & Big DataPlatforms would differentiate Google from the crowd	    Google Cloud Platform     Late Entrant but doing everything to Playing hard to catch up with AWS & Azure     Has the size, scale & investments to play long term	    Free Trail offers & price points have driven startups & SME segments to Google     Partner products, extensions, accelerators would accelerate Google Platform usage

Further updates will be published.  This is simply my point of view & I am open to being corrected.