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?
Economic slowdown is real. Although the fear of a recession has declined in recent weeks (from 40% to 30% before the Christmas season, according to a distillation of forecasts), other indicators reflect a slowdown in economic activity. The year started with hopes of returning to…
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.
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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 October 2025 edition of Constellation’s Enterprise Technology Intelligence Book unpacks the economic realities now defining the AI era. As the cost of running frontier models rises and enterprises move past the “pilot…
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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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Enterprises have spent billions on data, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI). The bottleneck and industry focus are no longer technology but decision-making. Decision velocity, defined by how fast and effectively an organization can sense, decide,…
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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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The rapid adoption of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and the emergence of agentic software have disrupted how enterprises design, build, and evolve digital experiences. Pendo, a platform long associated with product analytics and in-app guidance,…
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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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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…
AI Dominates the Boardroom Agenda, and Organizations Must Realign Resources To Benefit
Senior executives and policy wonks seek to understand how artificial intelligence (AI) will transform businesses, societies, and economies. Advancements in cloud computing, Internet of…
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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
About This Constellation ShortList™Travel management platforms enable enterprises to not only orchestrate trips but also reduce the time required to book a trip while managing the expenses for employees. Trip orchestration includes the booking of flights, train trips,…
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™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™IT Strategy Platforms are suites of capabilities that transcend traditional IT planning. These platforms empower businesses to closely align their IT objectives with overarching organizational strategies. They provide robust analytics,…