Constellation ShortList™ Digital Canvas Workboards

One of the biggest productivity barriers people face is the struggle of usingdozens of stand-alone applications to get their jobs done. When content is created in one tool and shared in another, it creates silos of information, causing conversations and insights to get lost along the way. Constellation estimates that this market will grow to $7.7 billion by 2030 at a 8.1% CAGR.

Digital canvases are a growing category of applications that enable teams to bring together and situate content from multiple sources into a single virtual space, providing multidimensional context to a topic or business process. This more integrated user experience should be familiar because it emulates working on a traditional whiteboard, where people can draw or attach content. Digital canvases can be created by individuals, but become even more valuable when co-authored by a team.

Digital canvases bring context to meetings, brainstorming, knowledge sharing, project management, and more. They empower people to make decisions faster, more contextually, with higher accuracy and consistently in an integrated, team-based model that is highly visual, conversational, and integrated with other
applications.

Threshold Criteria

Constellation considers the following criteria for these solutions:

• Administrative controls
• Application development: APIs/SDKs, documentation, samples, training
• Business partner ecosystem
• Client access options: Desktop, mobile, tablet, large screen, wearables
• Collaboration/sharing features
• Customer references
• Licensing options: Freemium, premium
• Integration with a significant number of leading business applications/platforms
• Search and discovery
• Security, including controlled external third-party access
• Templated solutions/use cases