There are a few comments on this thread about people disputing microsofts cloud revenues. I've got no extra intel or inside knowledge, however what I am seeing in the market suggests to me MSFTs cloud numbers are probably near to what they claim.
I lead sales and marketing at a small Microsoft partner. Even though we are an edge case we haven't lost a deal against salesforce.com for quite a while, and I am hearing similar reports from other established Microsoft partners here in Australia.
The combination of Dynamics CRM Online / Dynamics365 with the broader stack (BI, office365, azure) is extremely compelling to businesses.
And at a third of the price of salesforce licensing all we needed to have done was equal them to win the deals.
As Microsoft goes up look out for salesforce going down. They did a great job and set the gold standard, but the market has caught up and overtaken them now.
I lead sales and marketing at a small Microsoft partner. Even though we are an edge case we haven't lost a deal against salesforce.com for quite a while, and I am hearing similar reports from other established Microsoft partners here in Australia.
The combination of Dynamics CRM Online / Dynamics365 with the broader stack (BI, office365, azure) is extremely compelling to businesses.
And at a third of the price of salesforce licensing all we needed to have done was equal them to win the deals.
As Microsoft goes up look out for salesforce going down. They did a great job and set the gold standard, but the market has caught up and overtaken them now.