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Inside the Continuum of Growth and Innovation

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Know When to Apply the Right Transformation at the Right Time The pressure for digital transformation in the boardroom has led executives to jump into their digital journeys. Fail fast, fail often and learn equally fast remains the mantra. While digital transformation is game…
R Ray Wang
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Kaplan Graduates to a Cloud-Based Data Lake on Amazon Web Services

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Kaplan Uses SnapLogic and Redshift to Cut Costs, Optimize Its Product Portfolio and Boost Profits Kaplan Test Prep (Kaplan) is the largest division of Kaplan, Inc., a global higher education company and the largest unit of Graham Holdings (a public company formerly known as…
Doug Henschen
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As PaaS Turns Strategic, So Do Implementation Considerations

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Platform-as-a-Service Implementation Decisions Have Moved from Developers to Boardrooms. This report is about the change in best practices required when it comes to selecting and implementing a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) tool across an enterprise that wants to build next…
Holger Mueller
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MapR 6.0 Makes the Database Choice for Next-Gen Apps Easy

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How Great Architecture DNA and Commitment to R&D Created a Next-Gen Database for Most Enterprise Uses This offering overview reviews MapR’s latest database product, MapR-DB 6.0. This report identifies key differentiators, measures MapR-DB against…
Holger Mueller
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Why Next-Gen Apps Start with a Next-Gen Platform as a Service

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Strength of Platforms Massively Affects the Effectiveness of Next-Generation Applications This Market Overview examines the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) market, which is rapidly changing. The cloud, both as a platform and as a target deployment form, changes how software is…
Holger Mueller
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ENGIE Transforms Its Business by Building on C3 IoT’s PaaS

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ENGIE develops its businesses (power, natural gas and energy services) around a model based on responsible growth to take on the major challenges of the energy industry’s transition to a low-carbon economy: access to sustainable energy, climate-change…
Holger Mueller
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Ultra Mobile Takes an Affordable Approach to Agile Analytics

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Carrier Taps Looker and Denodo to Bring Flexibility and Reuse to a Changing IT Landscape Ultra Mobile is a prepaid nationwide carrier that focuses on delivering cost-effective mobile voice, text and data plans for domestic and international callers. Fast business growth and…
Doug Henschen
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Danske Bank Fights Fraud with Machine Learning and AI

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Analytics Platform Delivers Double-Digit Reductions in False Positives Danske Bank is a Nordic financial services company that operates in 16 countries, serving more than 1,800 corporations and institutions, 236,000 small and midsized companies and 2.7 million personal…
Doug Henschen
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Alliance Automation Platforms Drive Joint Marketing and Sales Effectiveness

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Joint Marketing and Sales Complexity Create Demand for Alliance Automation Solutions Today’s hypercompetitive business environment challenges organizations to work across multiple internal departments and external partners to deliver a seamless customer…
Cindy Zhou
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Lufthansa Digitally Transforms the Workplace for Flight Managers

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Design Thinking, IBM, Apple and Smart Project Management Are the Key Ingredients As part of its digital transformation project, Lufthansa rethought the workplace of flight managers, who play a key role in its flight operations. Moving flight managers from PCs and paper to a…
Holger Mueller
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The 2022 Constellation Futurist Framework

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Massive Megatrends Looming for 2018-2022 Reflect Fears of Business Extinction Constellation approaches the 2018-2022 timeframe with a comprehensive point of view using a holistic set of planning assumptions. This report examines the political, economic, societal,…
R Ray Wang
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The Rise of the Postmodern CFO

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Why the CFO’s Mandate Must Embrace Agility amid Digital Transformation The CFO role faces a plethora of pressures. As the job evolves from that of a traditional finance and accounting executive to a broadly strategic function within enterprises, fundamental…
R Ray Wang
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Dreamforce 2017 Product Announcements You Need to Know

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Salesforce’s Progress in AI & Analytics, Collaboration, Training, Platform, Sales and Marketing During the first week of November 2017, Constellation analysts congregated in San Francisco for Salesforce’s annual customer conference,…
Cindy Zhou, Holger Mueller, Alan Lepofsky, Dion Hinchcliffe, Doug Henschen
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How Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence Will Change BI & Analytics

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Five Innovations Democratizing Data Prep, Discovery, Analysis, Prediction and Data-Driven Decisions The tech world is abuzz with talk of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI). Fueling the frenzy are high-profile consumer offerings such as smart personal…
Doug Henschen

Eight Data-to-Decisions Trends to Watch in 2018

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Chief Data Officers and Other CxOs Must Prepare for These Data-Driven Opportunities and Demands The world is witnessing a renaissance in data-driven decision-making. Sweeping in this new era are next-generation data platforms, real-time processing and analysis capabilities,…
Doug Henschen, R Ray Wang
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What’s Top of Mind for SAP Customers?

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Customers’ Strategy in a Digital World Will Depend on SAP’s Licensing and Pricing Approach  This Quark report looks into the top Constellation Research customer inquiries about their SAP strategies. The report provides an overview of the top five questions and…
R Ray Wang
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Kronos Unveils Workforce Dimensions and More at KronosWorks 2017

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A New Chapter of Workforce Management Is Opened Constellation attended Kronos’ user conference, KronosWorks 2017, held in Las Vegas, November 12–15, 2017, at the Aria Resort and Casino. This year’s KronosWorks was well…
Holger Mueller
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Demystifying Artificial Intelligence

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Everything You Wanted to Know About AI but Were Afraid to Ask The rush to exponential technologies in new business models has placed artificial intelligence (AI) in the forefront of boardroom priorities for 2018. As leaders move beyond the AI hype, the journey toward AI…
R Ray Wang
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Oracle Database 12c R2 Pushes beyond Traditional RDBMS

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This offering overview provides an overview of Oracle’s current database product, 12c R2. This report identifies key differentiators, measures Oracle Database 12c R2 against Constellation’s seven criteria for a next-gen database product and…
Holger Mueller
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Next Gen Database Market Overview

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Databases Remain the Key to Enterprise Software–The Next-Gen Database is Materializing but Getting More Capable This market overview examines the market for enterprise databases, which are rapidly evolving into the next generation of the database. Not only…
Holger Mueller
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Constellation Research 2017 Digital Transformation Study

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New Data Shows AI and IoT Are Driving Digital Transformation Efforts This report presents findings from the 2017 Digital Transformation Survey conducted by Constellation Research. Constellation asked survey respondents about the key drivers for their current digital…
Chris Kanaracus, csato, R Ray Wang
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US Mobile Closes NoSQL Analytics Gap

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SlamData Provides Missing Platform for NoSQL Data Insight US Mobile implemented SlamData to deliver critical analytics capabilities that were lost after US Mobile rebuilt its core applications on a NoSQL data platform. In 2016, US Mobile rebuilt its core business…
Doug Henschen
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Inside the New Infor at Inforum 2017

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In early July 2017, Constellation’s analysts descended on New York City’s Javitz Center for Infor’s annual customer event, Inforum 2017. Infor attracted over 7,000 attendees, its biggest crowd to date at Inforum. Key…
R Ray Wang, Doug Henschen, Holger Mueller, Cindy Zhou
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Enterprise-Class MySQL Meets Oracle Cloud

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Oracle Database Service Combines MySQL Enterprise Edition Advantages, Hybrid Flexibility and Oracle Cloud Integration MySQL is the most popular open-source database in the world, according to the authoritative DB-Engines survey, so it should be no surprise that MySQL also…
Doug Henschen