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Trends: Five Data Center Trends For 2017
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 […]

News Analysis: America In An @RealDonaldTrump Era – Everything International Clients Need To Know PESTEL Part 1.
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 […]

Research Summary: Constellation's AstroChart For Business Trends, Q4 2016
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 […]

News Analysis: @Adobe @Microsoft Partner Up For Marketing Cloud, Azure and #AI #MSIgnite
Adobe Move To Microsoft Azure Signals Closer Partnerships Ahead On September 26th, 2016 at the Microsoft Ignite conference in Atlanta, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, and Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella, announced a strategic partnership between the two companies. Constellation sees the announcement from three points of view: Adobe makes Microsoft Azure the preferred cloud platform. Adobe […]

Monday's Musings: Understand The Spectrum Of Seven Artificial Intelligence Outcomes
Successful AI Projects Seek A Spectrum Of Outcomes As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to move from the summer of hype to the fall tech conference news cycle, mass confusion has begun on what AI can be used for. From fears of SKYNET, to hopes for the computer in StarTrek and Jarvis in Iron Man, the value […]

Tuesday's Tip: Seven Factors For Precision Decisions In Artificial Intelligence
The Rush To Artificial Intelligence Will Enable Augmented Humanity While market leaders and fast followers have not yet achieved mass personalization, the next rush is focused on investments in artificial intelligence (see Figure 1). Searching for a competitive advantage and fearful of disruption, board rooms and CXO’s have rushed to artificial intelligence as the next […]

Research Summary: Samsung Galaxy Note7 More Enterprise-Ready Than Ever
Why Customers Will Benefit From Samsung’s Investment in Enterprise-Grade Mobile Solutions In Constellation’s surveys, mobile enablement continues to be the top priority for CXOs. Unfortunately, concerns about enterprise-grade capabilities continue to hamper mobile adoption. Enterprise-class security, field-ready ruggedness, battery life, alternative user interfaces, payments and mobile wallets, dedicated enterprise sales and support, and industry-vertical focus […]

Monday's Musings: CXOs Seek Enterprise-Grade Mobile Solutions Despite Seven Barriers
Understand The Seven Barriers To Successful Enterprise Mobility Constellation’s annual survey of disruptive technologies among leading CXOs consistently places mobile enablement as a top three priority. In the 2016 survey, more than 58 percent of respondents revalidated that mobile enablement was their number one priority. Unfortunately, most CXOs and their organizations often find mobile solutions […]

Research Summary: [VIDEO] Inside Constellation's Futurist Framework
Use The PESTEL Futurist Framework To Drive Strategic Board Level Planning Assumptions Constellation updates its futurist framework on a biennial basis. Using a PESTEL model, political, economic, societal, technological, environmental, and legislative factors drive the overall planning assumptions. These planning assumptions power strategic planning sessions for board rooms and executive teams. The final PESTEL model […]

News Analysis: Plex Adds Supply Chain Planning With DemandCaster Acquisition
Key Supply Chain Planning Functionality Bolsters Manufacturing Cloud Offering On August 9, 2016, Manufacturing Cloud pioneer Plex, announced the acquisition of DemandCaster, a cloud based sales forecasting and inventory planning software provider based outside of Chicago, Illinois. Founder Ara Surenian built DemandCaster from his operational consulting experiences in demand planning, supply planning, and sales and […]

Research Summary: Infor Partners with Clients to Deliver on Digital Transformation
Software Vendors and Services Providers Shift Value from Products and Services to Outcomes The convergence of software vendors and services providers foreshadows the challenges organizations face in the selection of digital transformation solutions. The lack of pre-packaged, out-of-the-box solutions forces executives to focus not only on how the solutions are designed but also on the […]

News Analysis: Oracle's $9.3B Acquisition Of Netsuite Is About Cloud Consolidation
Oracle Brings Netsuite Back Into The Fold Oracle’s 9.3B acquisition of Netsuite came as no surprise to valley insiders. The rumors have surfaced for weeks. The surprise came as how badly Oracle sought cloud revenue and wanted to bring a friendly partner back into the family. Constellation sees the following for the buy side: Battle […]

Best Practices: Five Critical Success Factors To Digital Transformation
Digital Transformation Requires Five Critical Success Factors Over the past 24 months, Constellation’s clients have experienced closer collaboration between clients and their software vendors and service providers to craft solutions that may not have existed in the past. This level of collaboration reflects the need for not only strategic differentiation, but also the desire to […]

Monday's Musings: The Post #BREXIT Analysis, What's Next?
UK Referendum Highlights Displeasure With Political Elites With almost 52% voting to leave, the surprise results of the June 23rd, 2016 referendum highlighted the 40 year shift from euro-centric to euro-skeptic among the average UK citizen (see Figure 1). While many will attempt to blame the outcome on an ignorant non-urban voter, the results showed […]

Research Summary: Workday Release 26 Beefs Up Cloud Software for Financial Management
Constellation’s Series on Innovation in Cloud Financial Management Applications This report reviews the latest offering in financial management applications in the cloud and related Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) trends. Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) and finance leaders seeking advice about the cloud can take advantage of Constellation’s ERP user survey and cloud adoption trends to understand […]