This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
Set a Broad Strategic Vision, but Implement CPQ with a Phased Approach
Whether you are implementing a configure, price, quote (CPQ) system for the first time or moving to a new one, it is important to take advantage of best practices in order to avoid the major pitfalls and…
The Best Integrated HCM Suite for the Midmarket, Now Reaching for Larger Enterprises
This report provides an overview of Ceridian’s human capital management (HCM) offering, Dayforce, and analyzes its ability to satisfy enterprises’ demands…
Understand the Key Priorities in a Post-Pandemic Response
Over the past three weeks, Constellation Research has fielded hundreds of calls from CxOs about what to consider in the business and technology response to the coronavirus and COVID-19 fallout. In fact, on Friday,…
MicroStrategy Delivers Analytics in Context by Embedding Within Applications, Websites and Devices
Business intelligence and self-service analytics offerings have been around for a long time, yet they have yet to reach the broadest base of business users. MicroStrategy…
Why Every Enterprise Will Design for Self-Driving, Self-Learning, Self-Healing Sentience
Traditional transactional applications have run their course. The pressure to reduce margins, technical debt and investment in core systems creates tremendous incentives for the…
Adopt CPQ Tools to Meet Customer Needs, Grow the Top Line and Improve the Bottom Line
In the quest to become more customer-centric—and therefore successful—businesses are prioritizing big changes to the way they sell. For many, configure,…
Boomi Speeds Development of Integration, Master Data Management, Workflow & API Management Features
Boomi, an independent business unit of Dell Technologies, offers a cloud-based integration platform as a service called the AtomSphere Platform. The platform supports data…
Einstein Analytics Delivers Predictions and Recommendations Tightly Embedded Within Salesforce Apps
Salesforce is a well-known customer relationship management vendor. Less well known is Salesforce Einstein Analytics, the vendor’s business intelligence, data…
Customers Prefer UltiPro Because of Culture, Services and Product
This report provides an overview of Ultimate Software’s human capital management (HCM) offering and analyzes its capabilities to satisfy enterprises’ demands to power…
Embedding Is Not Just for Software Companies—Drive Action and Innovation with In-Context Analytics
The practice of embedding analytics into applications is not new, but until recently it has been associated predominantly with independent software vendors…
Less Than 20% of Blockchain Pilots Progress to Production. How Can You Predict Blockchain Project Success?
Between 80% and 90% of enterprise blockchain projects never proceed beyond proof of concept or pilot. While Constellation Research admires a “fail-fast…
What to Expect in 2020 and Beyond
Blockchain technologies made famous by the Bitcoin use case have now moved from proofs of concept to real projects in the business-to-business enterprise. Success in these technologies requires organizations and their leaders to rethink…
Building the Post-Digital, End-to-End Back-Office Cloud
The confluence of an improved market outlook, the shift to the cloud, the pressure of digital transformation and replacement cycle dynamics creates one of the biggest growth opportunities for enterprise resource planning…
A Look at Computer-Assisted Features for Prep, Discovery & Analysis, Language-Based Query & Prediction
The latest breakthroughs in business intelligence and analytics are seeing the application of heuristics, machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence and…
With New HR Core and New Payroll Becoming Generally Available, ADP Is on an Innovation Offensive
This report provides an overview of ADP’s human capital management (HCM) offering and analyzes its capabilities to satisfy enterprises’…
Agile Platform Supports the Design, Development, Deployment and Operation of Learning Apps at Scale
Targeting large organizations that want to transform the way they do business, C3.ai offers software and a cloud-first platform for developing, deploying and…
Customers Seek Consistent Cross-Cloud Compute Continuums for Next-Gen Apps
Enterprises are being challenged by Enterprise Acceleration and require a new breed of platforms that can expand across all currently available and future computing platforms. Faced with business…
Oracle Unveils the Second Generation of its Exadata Cloud at Customer While Other Vendors Ponder Their First Foray
This report provides an overview of Oracle Gen 2 Exadata Cloud at Customer and analyzes its capabilities to meet enterprises’ needs for a next…
A Look at Computer-Assisted Features for Prep, Discovery & Analysis, Language-Based Query & Prediction
The latest breakthroughs in business intelligence and analytics are seeing the application of heuristics, machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence and…
Critical Loads Can Benefit from New Platforms to Enable Better Customer and Employee Experiences
This report provides an overview of Oracle Exadata X8M and analyzes its capabilities to meet enterprises’ needs for a next-generation computing platform…
Networks—Not One-to-One Partnerships—Change the Game for Partnerships and Alliances
Approaches to partnerships and alliances have changed as significantly as the IT industry itself has over the past decade. Traditional channel sales have…
Infosys Helps BMG Tackle the Disruptions Affecting Global Media and Entertainment Companies
BMG Rights Management, a global music publishing and recording company based in Berlin, was struggling with disruptions wrought by the long-term transition from record, cassette and CD…
Kubernetes Workload Portability Gets Easy
This Offering Overview provides an in-depth look at Google GKE On-Prem and analyzes its ability to deliver a next-generation computing platform for enterprises that want to deploy workloads across on-premises equipment and the…
Qlik Cloud and Augmented Upgrades Enhance Flexibility and Self-Service; Acquisitions Diversify Data Capabilities
Business intelligence (BI) and analytics vendor Qlik Technologies Inc. (Qlik) has responded to emerging hybrid-cloud and multicloud deployment demands by…