Benchmark analyst Yun Kim said his checks indicate that Salesforce (CRM) is beginning to replace SAP (SAP) and Oracle (ORCL) as the "de facto standard" in enterprise business applications and he expects Salesforce to report at least in-line Q1 results and give at least in-line Q2 guidance. Ahead of the company's upcoming Q1 report, which is due on May 18, Kim raised his price target on Salesforce shares to $110 from $100 and keeps a Buy rating on the stock.

Oracle Corporation Japan "announced that it plans to invest more than $8B over the next 10 years to meet the growing demand for cloud computing and AI infrastructure in Japan. The investment will grow Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's footprint across Japan. In addition, to help customers and partners address the digital sovereignty requirements in Japan, Oracle will significantly expand its operations and support engineering teams with Japan-based personnel. Oracle plans to increase local customer support of its public cloud regions in Tokyo and Osaka and its local operations teams for Oracle Alloy and OCI Dedicated Region. This will enable governments and businesses across Japan to continue to move their mission-critical workloads to the Oracle Cloud and embrace sovereign AI solutions."