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Event Report: The #CES2021 Preview – What’s Hot And Useful In The Enterprise
Virtual CES Kicks Off The Conference Season For 2021 Source: R Wang This year’s CES will be all virtual as with all pandemic events. Last year they brought in more than 171,000 guests, 6500 press and media, and had almost 3 million net square feet of exhibits with 4419 exhibiting companies. As one of the […]

News Analysis: Celonis Launches Execution Management System
Eliminating System Complexity Is Celonis’ Number One Priority On October 14th, 2020, Co-CEO and Co-Founder, Alexander Rinke, kicked off its Ecosystem Summit and showcased its new Execution Management System (EMS). The goal is to improve an enterprise’s execution capacity by simplifying complex processes. Celonis defines execution capacity as the ability to get things done over […]

News Analysis: ServiceNow Gets Serious About AI With Element AI Acquisition
Joint post with my colleague Holger Mueller (@holgermu) Element AI Takes Workflow to the Autonomous Level for ServiceNow On November 30th, ServiceNow announced an estimated $500 (CAD) million acquisition of Montreal, Canada based startup, Element AI. Co-founded by Dr. Yoshua Bengio, a 2018 winner of the Turing Award, Nicolas Chapados. and Jean-François Gagné in 2016, […]

News Analysis: Apple Brings New Post Pandemic Solutions To Remote Learning
K-12 Education Market Faces New Requirements The latest CDC guidelines highlight the major challenges administrators and educators have for reopening schools. The general principle – the more interactions, the longer interactions, the higher the risk of #COVID-19 spread. The CDC states that the risk of COVID-19 spread increases in school settings as follows: Lowest Risk: […]

News Analysis: Salesforce Commerce Cloud Quick Start Addresses Post Pandemic Requirements
Contactless, Direct To Consumer, Buy Online Pickup Anywhere, Automation, and Subscription Ready Drive Post Pandemic Response Matrix Commerce analyzes the disruptive pressures influencing the commerce paradigm. Commerce faces rapidly changing business models and new payment options that are often misunderstood and poorly integrated. Matrix commerce (TM) means the fusing of demand signals and supply chains […]

Monday’s Musings: The Matrix Commerce Post Pandemic Playbook #COVID19
Understand The Key Priorities In A Post Pandemic Response Over the past seven weeks, Constellation Research, Inc. has fielded hundreds of calls from CXO’s about what to consider in the business and technology response to the coronavirus and Covid-19 fall out. The conversations with clients and the analysis from the research team have resulted in […]

Monday’s Musings: Why Every Organization Must Build A Post Pandemic Playbook #COVID19 #CoronaVirus
Understand The Key Priorities In A Post Pandemic Response Over the past three weeks, Constellation Research, Inc. has fielded hundreds of calls from CXO’s about what to consider in the business and technology response to the coronavirus and Covid-19 fall out. In fact, on Friday April 3rd, Constellation convened a conversation with more than 40 […]

News Analysis: Tech Vendors Take On #Coronavirus
Big Tech Steps Up To Support The “War” Effort Over the past two-weeks, the tech community has sought different ways to assist with the battle against Covid-19. Efforts range from free usage of product, cash assistance, donations, and product innovations. Here’s a short run down of some highlighted announcements: IBM, The White House, and Department […]

Monday’s Musings: Inside The Five Levels Of Autonomous Enterprises
Cognitive Apps Power The Future Of Autonomous Enterprises Cognitive applications run mission-critical business systems in a continuous, self-driving, self-learning, auto-compliant, self-securing, and self-healing approach. These AI driven systems intelligently automate transactional systems and processes such as campaign to lead, order to cash, procure to pay, incident to resolution, concept to market, and hire to retire. […]

Personal Log: Understanding Case Fatality Rates For #COVID19 #CoronaVirus
Data In Early Case Fatality Rates Are Naturally Biased To Show Massive Fatality While there’s nothing wrong with an abundance of caution for high case fatality rates we are seeing for the COVID-19 coronavirus, the data is not accurate. We keep hearing 3.5% or 4% of the population is going to die. Why is the […]

Best Practices: Hosting Events In The Age Of #Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Event Organizers and Large Venue Operators Must Exercise An Abundance Of Caution Source: Constellation Research, Inc. Ambient Experience Summit 2020 Atlanta Amidst the backdrop of coronavirus fears and the spread of COVID-19, event organizers, large venue promoters, and major league sports teams, must make the tough decisions on whether or not to host their events […]

Monday’s Musings: The Roaring 20’s and the #Futureof2020
With a new decade in front of us, what happens when the confluence of politics, economics, society, technology, environmental, and legislative forces meet the forces of humanity? Here are seven deep trends that will emerge to impact the next decade and more: 1. Human Ingenuity vs Intelligent Automation In a world of AI possibilities and […]

Event Report: AI Everywhere at Dreamforce And The Rise Of Ambient Experiences #DF19
Einstein Everywhere In Every Cloud And Every Industry Dreamforce 2019 kicked off to 171,000 on-site attendees and over 13 million online viewers. Sessions packed in at Moscone Center and the surrounding hotels were bursting at the seems, even with Howard Street shut down as the HQ for the Dreamforce National Park. The event often known […]

Event Report: Customer Data Platform Takes Center Stage At Salesforce Connections 2019 #CNX19
Written with Nicole France @lnfrance Customer 360 Mantra Manifests In The Customer Data Platform Over 12,000 customers from 40+ countries convened at Chicago’s McCormick Center for the annual Salesforce Connections conference. Stephanie Buscemi, CMO, welcomed the audience and key customers such as Conagra, Indiana Pacers, and State Farm to the stage. Key highlights from the […]

Event Report: FinancialForce Doubles Down On Customer-Centric ERP #FFCommLive19
PSA, Subscription Billing Power Customer Centric ERP Almost 600 customers, partners, and influencers joined the FinancialForce team in Las Vegas. May 7th to 9th, to experience the latest in professional services automation (PSA) and customer-centric ERP. CEO and President, Tod Nielsen, kicked off its user conference at the Aria Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. […]