Inside the Design Point For All Future AI Driven Apps The quest for mass personalization at scale in an era of artificial intelligence (AI) has led to new models of design for the future of applications.  One design point for these new AI driven smart apps is a concept called Infinite Ambient Orchestration.  The three […]

Six Factors For Powering AI Driven Smart Services Recent client conversations indicate a desire for designing new AI Driven Smart Services.   The rush to incorporate artificial intelligence into processes often requires a deeper examination of which services should be AI enabled.  Constellation’s latest framework for augmenting humanity encompasses six factors (see Figure 1): Repetitiveness.  The […]

Recognize The Change Agents In Business Transformation I’m excited to announce the launch of the Business Transformation 150.   Constellation’s elite list recognizes the top global executives leading innovative business transformation efforts in their organizations.   Nominations from peers, industry influencers, technology vendors, and analysts powered the exhaustive, six-month selection process for the BT-150. Analyzing The BT-150 […]

Radical Candor Author Kim Scott Delivering Keynote at Connected Enterprise 2017 Learn how to be a kickass boss without losing your humanity We are excited to share that Kim Scott, author of Radical Candor, will deliver the keynote address at Connected Enterprise 2017 in Half Moon Bay. Kim will focus on a management strategy so obvious it’s often overlooked: giving […]

Top Trends for 2018 Highlight Greater Orchestration In March 2016, Constellation introduced four personas of the modern CMO (see Figure 1).  This framework provided CMO’s with a model to think about the role of strategy versus execution and audience development versus audience acquisition.   Over the past eight weeks, conversations with demand generation focused CMO’s […]

  About this Constellation ShortList The challenges and requirements around data and application integration are quickly changing. For starters, data increasingly lives and applications increasingly run outside of the four walls of the enterprise as companies embrace cloud-based compute and storage capacity, and as they replace on-premises software with software as a service (SaaS). The […]

  About this Constellation ShortList In 2008, blockchain technology was introduced to the world from the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto. The paper, titled “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System,” shared how a network would maintain a time stamped immutable record of all cryptocurrency transactions to prevent double spend with no central umpire. The core of blockchain […]

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 […]