This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
Have you ever attended an event and just had something stick in your head for days or even weeks? Months? Smartsheet ENGAGE, in early November 2025, raised just such a question: What matters in the reality of work?
Caterpillar has plans for artificial intelligence (AI) enabled features in its construction equipment; autonomy at scale and machine learning with computer vision, sensors, and edge computing; and Cat AI Assistant, which enables customers to engage with the company's machines. The bigger story, however, may be the years of transformation, data preparation, and technology infrastructure leading up to Caterpillar's big CES 2026 splash.
Rimini Street's first act took 20 years, but the second one will move much faster as the company aims to layer agentic AI over legacy enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. The strategy: enable enterprises to accelerate their automation and artificial intelligence (AI) plans while relegating reliable yet legacy systems to plumbing.
Enterprises run on transactions, and this means that transactional databases are critical for enterprises. The ability to seamlessly scale transactional databases has always been a core challenge for vendors, and subsequently for their enterprise users. At the core of critical…
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The December 2025 edition of Constellation’s Enterprise Technology Intelligence Book breaks down how economic uncertainty, AI model strategy, and long-term infrastructure planning are shaping 2026 roadmaps. CIOs are reassessing data…
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Constellation Research’s 2025 CxO Confidence Survey examines enterprise sentiment among senior decision-makers navigating a landscape defined by complexity and cautious progress. The findings show that optimism is returning to…
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Artificial intelligence (AI) has shifted from experimentation to execution. Nearly all respondents (95%) to Constellation’s 2025 AI Survey report actively using AI technologies, with most scaling efforts focused on employee…
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Public sector technology executives laid out a series of takeaways and best practices at the Google Public Sector Summit in Washington, D.C., in October. The takeaways ranged from focusing on your data foundation to use cases for artificial…
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The September 2025 edition of Constellation’s Enterprise Technology Intelligence Book examines how AI economics is reshaping enterprise strategies—from infrastructure investments and cloud modernization to the growing…
Enterprise technology leaders are navigating a period of volatility and reinvention. In this month’s update, Esteban Kolsky distills the key forces shaping boardroom strategy — from economic instability and AI infrastructure investment to…
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Today’s frontline workers face a confluence of forces that will dramatically reshape business models, impact employee experience, transform customer experience, and affect stakeholder satisfaction. An aging population, war for talent, and…
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Agentic artificial intelligence (AI) sits top-of-mind for many executives, especially those focused on experience delivery and customer engagement. Although many have launched isolated experiences or proof-of-concept (POC) initiatives, few have reached a…
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When Abrigo, which provides compliance, credit risk, and lending software for financial institutions, launched a series of new capabilities to its Abrigo AI suite in September this year, the effort was more than a product launch. The additions were…
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Constellation Research’s 2025 Analyst Relations Survey provides a snapshot of how analyst relations (AR) professionals are navigating fixed budgets, shifting expectations, and the rising impact of artificial intelligence (AI)…
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On May 16, 2025, U.S. District Judge Rita Lin of the Northern District of California granted preliminary certification of the case of Mobley v. Workday as a collective action. Specifically, the suit claims that Workday’s artificial…
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In June 2025, IBM shared an updated roadmap for its quantum offerings that reflects new dates and systems as well as the industry’s overall attention to quantum error correction. The report looks at architecture qualities for quantum…
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The age of artificial intelligence (AI) ushers in a revolution with an exponential scale unmatched by any other technology revolution to date. As humanity grapples with what it means to be human, expect a transformation in mission and purpose as pyramids…
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Certinia, which provides management software for professional services organizations, delivered its first installment of artificial intelligence (AI) agents built on Salesforce’s Agentforce platform as part of its recent summer release
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Sales engagement platforms are designed to drive both seller productivity and a more seamless interaction experience between buyers and sellers. These platforms focus on the mechanics of a seller crafting profitable 1:1 customer…
About This Constellation ShortList™Much hype has been made about the metaverse. However, very few organizations have fully grasped the impact the metaverse will have on experiences and engagement for both the consumer world and the enterprise. More than just gaming worlds or…
About This Constellation ShortList™Performance management platforms tools are digital solutions that help apply the popular goal-setting framework for defining and tracking objectives as well as their outcomes. Performance management is one of the five key pillars of talent…
About This Constellation ShortList™Artificial intelligence (AI) platforms enable organizations and individuals to build intelligent applications based on data. AI platforms must provide the facilities to ingest complex data, address rapidly generated or constantly evolving data,…
About This Constellation ShortList™Distributed autonomous organizations (DAOs) are member-owned communities without centralized leadership. A DAO's financial records and rules of operation are usually maintained on a blockchain with many of their rules embodied in code,…
About This Constellation ShortList™Digital transformation services (DTX) firms work with clients to reimagine new business models, co-innovate and co-create future solutions, and potentially operate these solutions at scale if needed. Firms can be a systems integrator (SI) or…