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 […]

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, […]

Why This Makes Sense On Three Counts If the Wall Street Journal’s article is correct, Oracle has emerged as the winner over Microsoft and Walmart for the acquisition of ByteDance’s US operations as TikTok’s “trusted tech partner”.  While many in the industry remain confused on why Oracle would acquire the social media giant’s 100 million […]

Modern Progressive Web Apps Much Needed Vancouver, British Columbia, based Mobify was approached by Salesforce.com for an estimated $60M acquisition on September 4th, 2020.  Mobify, founded in 2007 by two Simon Fraser University students, Igor Faletski and John Boxall, began as an SMS text messaging app that sent bus times to mobile users. Their expertise […]

Food Delivery App Consolidation Accelerates Among Digital Giants   On July 6th, Uber Eats announced the acquisition of food delivery app rival Postmates for $2.65 billion.  In the age of duopolies, the food delivery app space is rapidly consolidating.  The blockbuster acquisition follows rival JustEat’s international expansion into the United States with the purchase of […]

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: […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]