New Management Team and Focus Bode Well for FinancialForce Constellation attended the FinancialForce Community Live event in Las Vegas in June 2017.  More than 1,000 attendees gathered to see the new management team and product roadmap.  The market for cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) software remains hot as regulatory requirements and modernization efforts drive upgrades […]

Learn How To Overcome Functional Fiefdoms and Legacy Technologies In One Full Swoop Customer Experience (CX) software suites from technology providers aim to provide businesses with a seamless experience across marketing, sales and service, offering a single view of the customer. On the other hand, customers must deal with a fragmented CX technology stack that […]

Digital Trends Signal Manufacturing Renaissance Ahead Western economies have faced an onslaught of negative developments in their domestic manufacturing bases over the past 40 years. With the rise of Industry 4.0, the current trend of automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies, manufacturers now have new opportunities to undergo digital transformation. Constellation finds that digital […]

Why Mass Personalization Efforts Fail and Ten Simple Steps to Fix Them Over the past four decades, valiant attempts at personalization have failed due to the lack of relevant and intelligent automation.  Moreover, expectations of consumers and prospects have only grown.  The result – an expectations gap in personalization that manifests itself in fickler consumers […]

One Integrated, Global System For Finance And HR Delivers Business Success This case study examines Ensono’s experience implementing Workday’s HR and Finance enterprise applications in the cloud. Ensono provides infrastructure management services for global companies. Ensono delivers next-generation IT solutions and helps organizations plan for optimized, future infrastructures. By implementing Workday, Ensono was able to […]

Constellation Research Beefs Up CXO Research Focused On Executive Buy-Side Clients I’m personally excited to announce the arrival of Dion Hinchcliffe to our team.  I’ve been a big fan and admirer of him for the past decade.  As many of you know, he’s been a key influencer of tech executives for some time on topics […]

Google Cloud Takes Key Steps To Enterprise Class Over 10,000 customers, prospects, partners, Google developers, and employees gathered in San Francisco’s Moscone West Conference Center for Google’s flagship enterprise event. Of note, Alphabet CEO, Eric Schmidt, book ended the event by highlighting the $30 billion capital infrastructure investment into the overall Google Cloud Platform.   The […]

Services Vendors Need To Move Beyond Trump, H1B, and Re-skilling Concerns Source: Nasscom NILf 17 Keynote On Dynamic Leadership For Digital Transformation Constellation participated in the 25th edition of Nasscom’s India Leadership Forum 2017 (NILF17) in Mumbai at the Grand Hyatt.   Though everyone was here to Reimagine, not Re-engineer , during the off-stage conversations with […]

Hubris Drives Most Tech Firm Failures After observing the technology industry for two decades, one can’t help but identify a recurring theme – the beginning of the end of a technology vendor.   While most firms do not endure a mass failure and come back to life like Apple did with Steve Jobs or transform business […]

Today’s Leadership Models Fail To Address Responsive And Responsible Leadership The World Economic Forum kicks off January 17th to 20th in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland. As the global theme for the annual meeting, responsive and responsible leadership begins a lofty conversation about the qualities required to bring generations together, create inclusiveness in growth opportunities, and to bridge […]

Multi-Modal Approach Key to Successful Digital Transformation Like fake news, the over hyped, bi-modal approach to IT and digital transformation is a flawed fallacy perpetuated by ivory tower, non-pragmatic legacy research firms.  Lessons learned from successful digital transformation projects emphasize an organizational design comprised of six key virtual or physical teams (see Figure 1): Figure […]

AI Driven Smart Services Power The Future of IOT, CX,  Future of Work, and Block Chains The combination of machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, and cognitive computing will change the ways that humans and machines interact with our environments.  AI-driven smart services will sense one’s surroundings, know one’s preferences are from  past behavior, […]

2017 Trends Reflect Faster, Better, Cheaper, Safer, Mantra Of Hyperscale Source: Google As clients make a shift from on-premises traditional data centers to the cloud, mega vendors will rush to build out their hyperscale data centers.  Hyperscale data centers use nodes to flex up and flex down on compute power, storage, networking, and memory as […]

SPECIAL NOTE: This post is intended to help international clients understand the true nature of this historic US election and objectively understand the impact to clients.  Clients can set up an inquiry for more details specific to their business scenario.  This is part 1 of a two part series covering the Political, Economic, and Societal […]

Move Beyond The Hype In Business Trend Cycles Constellation’s AstroChartTM for Business Trends provides market leaders and fast followers a visual guide to business trends and their adoption.  The vertical access rates adoption from mainstream to early adopters to bleeding edge.  The horizontal access estimates the impact on an organization’s business model. from incremental to […]