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Event Report: Oracle ERP Cloud Gains Traction Among Customer Base And Net New Enterprises March 21, 2019
Event Report: Epicor Demonstrates New Chapter For Cloud ERP And Mid-Market Solutions at #EpicorInsights19 April 21, 2019
Event Report: Apple Formally Launches Services Strategy #AppleEvent March 25, 2019
Event Report: #Think2019 Showcases IBM’s Shift Back From Software To Services February 13, 2019
Event Report: #WEF19 #Davos2019 Globalization 4.0 Under Fire As Global Leaders Fail The Populace January 22, 2019
Research Report: Improving Go-to-Market Results with Constellation’s ACF January 16, 2019
Event Report: Retailers Navigate Exponential Tech Amidst New Business Model Shifts #NRF2019 January 16, 2019
Trends: Constellation 2018 Enterprise Awards January 3, 2019
Monday’s Musings: What’s Up With Big Tech Stocks? The Insider View For 2019 December 24, 2018
Big Idea: December 10th, The Future Of The Internet And Human Rights In A Digital Age November 26, 2018
Event Report: @GCPCloud A Few Steps Closer To Enterprise Ready #GoogleNext18 July 27, 2018
Best Practices: Seven Steps To Success In Enterprise Blockchain June 21, 2018
News Analysis: Adobe Completes Campaign To Commerce With $1.68B Magento Acquisition May 22, 2018
Event Report: @ServiceNow Transforms From #ITSM To Experience Orchestration #know18 May 10, 2018
Monday’s Musings: Seven Common Failures Plague Board Room Strategy In Digital Transformation May 7, 2018
Monday’s Musings: Designing Five Pillars For Level 1 Artificial Intelligence Ethics March 26, 2018
Digital Transformation Digest: Amazon AR View For Android, SAP Leonardo In Telecom and Cars, MIT AI Chip Makes Neural Networks Mobile February 27, 2018
Digital Transformation Digest: Mobile World Congress and 5G, Samsung Galaxy S9 and Google Assistant Gets A Boost February 26, 2018
Event Report: Microsoft Biz Apps Analyst Day Highlights Strategic Transformation #MSBizApps February 14, 2018
Digital Transformation Digest: Oracle Bets Big On Cloud, Eye On Amazon Domination, and New Investments In Enterprise Tech February 13, 2018
Digital Transformation Digest: Arizona Accepts Crypto For Tax, Google Rumored With iMessage Competitor, HomePods Sound Good February 12, 2018
Research Report: Constellation’s Futurist Framework (PESTEL) – The Societal Outlook Pre @Davos #WEF18 January 18, 2018
Research Report: Constellation’s Futurist Framework (PESTEL) – The Economic Outlook Pre @Davos #WEF18 January 17, 2018
Research Report: Constellation’s Futurist Framework (PESTEL) – The Political Outlook Pre @Davos #WEF18 January 16, 2018
Monday’s Musings: Want AI Ethics? Learn From These Four Movies/TV Shows! December 3, 2017
Research Report: What’s Top Of Mind From SAP Customers December 19, 2017
Research Report: Demystifying Artificial Intelligence November 16, 2017
Personal Log: What I’m Thankful For This Year November 23, 2017
Monday’s Musing: Infinite Ambient Orchestration November 6, 2017
Tuesday’s Tip: Know When To Automate With Artificial Intelligence September 19, 2017
Personal Log: Congratulations To Constellation’s BT-150 Winners #BT150 September 6, 2017
Event Invitation: Radical Candor Author Kim Scott Delivering Keynote at Connected Enterprise 2017 August 29, 2017
Monday’s Musings: Part 1 of 4 – What Top CMO’s Care About (Demand Gen Persona) August 28, 2017
Research Summary: Constellation ShortList™ Integration Platform as a Service (IPaaS) August 13, 2017
Research Summary: Constellation ShortList™ Synchronous Ledger and Blockchain Platforms August 13, 2017
Event Report: FinancialForce #FFComm17 June 22, 2017
Research Summary: The Future of Customer Experience (CX) is Orchestrated Engagement June 15, 2017
Research Summary: Nine Starting Points For Digital Transformation In Manufacturing May 10, 2017
Research Summary: Artificial Intelligence Delivers Mass Personalization In Commerce April 17, 2017
Research Summary: How Ensono Used Workday Finance And HR Cloud To Innovate And Save Money April 12, 2017
Event Report: NASSCOM #NILF17 Highlights Need For Re-Skilling And Move Beyond Trump February 18, 2017
Personal Log: Leading CXO Influencer, Dion Hinchcliffe (@dhinchcliffe) Joins Constellation Research April 3, 2017
Event Report: #GoogleNext17 On Path To Enterprise Ready March 9, 2017
Tuesday’s Tip: Seven Universal Factors Why Technology Firms Fail January 10, 2017
Monday’s Musings: Dynamic Leadership – A Responsive And Responsible Approach #Davos #WEF17 January 2, 2017
Monday’s Musings: Why A Bi-Modal Approach to Digital Transformation Is Just Stupid December 12, 2016
Monday’s Musings: Secrets Behind Building Any AI Driven Smart Service November 28, 2016
Trends: Five Data Center Trends For 2017 November 12, 2016
News Analysis: America In An @RealDonaldTrump Era – Everything International Clients Need To Know PESTEL Part 1. November 10, 2016
Research Summary: Constellation’s AstroChart For Business Trends, Q4 2016 October 18, 2016
Research Summary: Constellation’s AstroChart For Tech Trends October 17, 2016
News Analysis: @Adobe @Microsoft Partner Up For Marketing Cloud, Azure and #AI #MSIgnite September 26, 2016
Monday’s Musings: Understand The Spectrum Of Seven Artificial Intelligence Outcomes September 18, 2016
Tuesday’s Tip: Seven Factors For Precision Decisions In Artificial Intelligence August 23, 2016
Research Summary: Samsung Galaxy Note7 More Enterprise-Ready Than Ever August 16, 2016
Monday’s Musings: CXOs Seek Enterprise-Grade Mobile Solutions Despite Seven Barriers August 16, 2016
Research Summary: [VIDEO] Inside Constellation’s Futurist Framework August 9, 2016
Research Summary: Infor Partners with Clients to Deliver on Digital Transformation August 4, 2016
News Analysis: Plex Adds Supply Chain Planning With DemandCaster Acquisition August 9, 2016
News Analysis: Oracle’s $9.3B Acquisition Of Netsuite Is About Cloud Consolidation July 28, 2016
Best Practices: Five Critical Success Factors To Digital Transformation July 10, 2016
Monday’s Musings: The Post #BREXIT Analysis, What’s Next? June 27, 2016
Research Summary: Workday Release 26 Beefs Up Cloud Software for Financial Management June 9, 2016
Personal Log: Pulse Shootings And The State Of America June 12, 2016
News Analysis: Acquisition Brings Salesforce Customers To The Commerce Party June 3, 2016
Monday’s Musings: Data – The Foundation Of Real-Time Digital Business May 23, 2016
Research Summary: The Algorithm of You – How IoT Transforms and Differentiates Customer Experience May 12, 2016
Research Summary: HOLMES Puts Wipro in the Forefront of Cognitive Computing May 10, 2016
Research Summary: Why Live Engagement Marketing Supercharges Event Marketing May 6, 2016
Research Summary: Reltio Powers Data-Driven Applications on a Modern Platform-as-a-Service May 4, 2016
Research Summary: SAP User Experience-as-a-Service April 27, 2016
Research Summary: How Shaw Used NetSuite To Create Two-Tier ERP March 21, 2016
Research Summary: FinancialForce Spring Release Shows Innovation In Personalization And Collaboration March 1, 2016
Monday’s Musings: Why Digital Transformation Must Move Beyond The Hiring Of A Chief Digital Officer April 25, 2016
Monday’s Musings: The Four Personas Of The Modern CMO In A Digital World April 11, 2016
Event Report: Business Transformation Top Of Mind For Microsoft Envision #ENV16 Attendees April 7, 2016
Event Report: A New Platform For The Digital Economy #Davos16 #WEF January 28, 2016
Event Report: The Transformation of Finance #Davos16 #WEF January 28, 2016
Event Report: The Future Of Jobs From #Davos16 #WEF January 20, 2016
Event Report: The @Wipro @FT Dinner, Man vs Machine, Does It Have To Be Either/Or? #Davos2016 #WEF #WEFTalks January 19, 2016
Event Report: The Weekend Before Davos And The Dawn Of The Fourth Industrial Revolution January 16, 2016
News Analysis: In Search Of Growth Amidst Digital Disruption January 8, 2016
News Analysis: SAP User Base In The UK and Ireland Ready For Digital Transformation But Organizations Remain Cautious Of Vendor Claims To Assist November 24, 2015
Monday’s Musings: Reflecting On Five Years Of Disrupting The Industry Analyst Business November 16, 2015
Monday’s Musings: Avoiding Cloud Vendor Lock-In October 25, 2015
Monday’s Musings: Dealing With The Startup Who Went Public And Is Now Arrogant As Hell October 11, 2015
Event Report: @AirWatch #AWConnect 2015 Shows Shift From EMM To Platform September 23, 2015
Tuesday’s Tip: IOT and The Death Of OmniChannel Non-sense In Customer Experience September 22, 2015
Event Invitation: Webinar on The American Eagle Story- Competing On Experiences And Outcomes In A Mobile World September 15, 2015
Event Invitation: Webinar on Building Win-Win Relationships With Oracle September 12, 2015
Event Invitation: Tweet Chat on Managing #ShadowIT September 6, 2015
News Analysis: @Cisco and @Apple Team Up At #GSX August 31, 2015
Event Invitation: Come Join Us For A Silicon Valley CXO Day At Constellation’s Connected Enterprise #CCE2015 August 26, 2015
News Analysis: @Infosys Announces Three New Service Lines #AiKiDō August 20, 2015
News Analysis: @Oracle Announces Agreement To Acquire Marketing Cloud A/B Testing Firm @Maxymiser August 20, 2015
News Analysis: @Infor Acquires @GTNexus for $675M August 11, 2015
News Analysis: Inside Alphabet – G Is For Google August 10, 2015
News Analysis: Infosys One-Year After Vishal Sikka August 4, 2015
Event Report: Sage Summit 2015 Shows A Refocus On The Future Of The SMB Customer July 29, 2015
News Analysis: Inside The Rationale Behind @LinkedIn Turning Off Its CSV Connections Download Tool July 25, 2015

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Meet R "Ray" Wang

R “Ray” Wang (pronounced WAHNG) is the Principal Analyst, Founder, and Chairman of Silicon Valley based Constellation Research, Inc. He’s the author of the popular business strategy and technology blog “A Software Insider’s Point of View”. Wang has held executive roles in product, marketing, strategy, and consulting at institutions such as Forrester Research, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, and Johns Hopkins Hospital. His best selling book, Disrupting Digital Business, published by Harvard Business Review Press provides insights on why 52% of the Fortune 500 have been merged, acquired, gone bankrupt, or fallen off the list since 2000.

Wang is a prominent dynamic keynote speaker, research analyst, and industry commentator working with clients to transform their business models using exponential technologies. He’s spoken around the world at almost every tech related conference including keynotes for tens of thousands of people and intimate executive settings such as Davos. Ray’s clients include a majority of the Fortune 500 and Global 200.

Ray is well quoted in media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, FoxBusiness, CNBC, Bloomberg, CNN, CGTN, Tech Crunch, Business Week, and Fortune. He has thrice won the prestigious Institute of Industry Analyst Relations (IIAR) Analyst of the Year Award and has repeatedly been in the #1 slot in the AR Power 100 list for over 10 years. Ray resides in Silicon Valley when not traveling 500,000 miles a year in the air.

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