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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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The CxO’s Guide to Digital Business

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Understand Why Digital Business Necessitates a Complete Transformation of IT and Operating Models This report defines the business model and operational structure of a successful digital enterprise. A digital enterprise is an organization that can dynamically and in near-real…
Andy Mulholland
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New Management Team and Focus Bode Well for FinancialForce

New C-Suite
Renewed Focus on Services-Based ERP and Cloud Entry Points Gives Customers More Choices  Constellation attended the FinancialForce Community Live event in Las Vegas in June 2017. More than 1,000 attendees gathered to see the new management team and product roadmap. The…
R Ray Wang
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Artificial Intelligence Delivers Mass Personalization in Commerce

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Why Mass Personalization Efforts Fail and Ten Simple Steps to Fix Them The market need for mass personalization at scale and the technology advances in artificial intelligence (AI) enable brands and enterprises to finally deliver on the promises of digital transformation. As…
R Ray Wang
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Four IoT Business Models for the Digital Services Economy

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A Guide for Established Enterprises Planning Their Go-to-Market Strategy for Digital Services This Quark explores the challenges that established enterprises face as business models transform in the digital economy. Given the rapidly changing world, selecting a new business…
Andy Mulholland
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Inside Salesforce Einstein Artificial Intelligence

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A Look at Salesforce Einstein Capabilities, Use Cases and Challenges  This report provides a product overview of Salesforce Einstein, which was introduced with much fanfare at the company’s October 2016 Dreamforce event. The introduction marked the…
Doug Henschen
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C3 IoT: A NextGen Platform for NextGen Applications

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Vendor Profile and Buyer's Guide: C3 IoT The cloud era warrants a new approach to how enterprises build, consume and operate software. In the enterprise, automation is often scattered between operational and organizational siloes, some of them on-premises, some of them in the…
Holger Mueller
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Dynamic Leadership – Creating a Responsive and Responsible Approach

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Why Digital Transformation Requires Constellation’s New Leadership Framework  This report defines Constellation’s dynamic leadership model. The need to create responsive and responsible leadership is a hallmark for success in digital transformation and jump starting…
R Ray Wang
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IBM Cultivates Blockchain Ecosystem

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IBM Bolsters Blockchain Ecosystem in Preparation for Next-Generation Applications  IBM announced in December 2016 that it would help create, foster and support an ecosystem around Hyperledger Fabric v1.0, an open source collaborative effort to advance blockchain…
Holger Mueller
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Why Artificial Intelligence Will Power the Future of Work

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An Introduction to How AI Can Augment the Way People Get Work Done Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as one of the most important trends affecting the future of work. While the study of AI has been around for decades, advancements in computing power and access to huge…
Alan Lepofsky
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Persistent Systems Helps Virginia Tech Accelerate Predictive Simulation

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Case Study: Persistent Systems and Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech How the Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech Fights Ebola and Zika with High-Performance Analytics The Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (BI-VT)…
Doug Henschen
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Red Hat Makes Multi-Cloud Real and Google Makes Multiple PaaS Real

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Red Hat OpenShift’s Availability on Google Cloud Platform Is a Big Win for Enterprises  This Quark examines the general availability announcement of Red Hat and Google, bringing Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). It is an…
Holger Mueller
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Workday Selects AWS as Its Primary Production Cloud Platform

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Cloud Success Prompts Leading HCM Vendor to Adopt Leading IaaS Vendor for Production Loads  During AWS reInvent 2016, Workday announced it selected Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred public cloud platform for customer workloads. This Quark analyzes the…
Holger Mueller
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Recommendations for Successful Digital Transformation in 2017

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Lessons Learned from Digital Transformation Projects in 2016 Digital transformation evolved to a top priority for organizations in 2016. The fear of being disrupted by non-traditional competitors, margin pressure from competitors, and realization that digital was more than…
R Ray Wang
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Castlight Health: Relationship Marketing Meets Employee Health

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Vendor Profile: Castlight HealthCastlight Health offers a healthcare benefits software platform that enables employees to make the right decisions about lifestyle choices and benefits elections. The platform helps enterprises see the effectiveness of their benefits programs and…
Holger Mueller
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Capriza Democratizes Enterprise Automation for the Mobile Worker

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Vendor Profile and Buyer's GuideCapriza enables a non-technical user to create appealing, easy-to-use mobile applications. Capriza has eliminated the need to learn any coding by allowing users to drag and drop user interface (UI) elements from existing browser-based applications…
Holger Mueller
Case Study

Using the Right Development Tool Improves Customer Satisfaction

Future of Work
Case Study: Zudy and Brooks Brothers When America's oldest retailer was looking for an in-store software solution for alterations management, clienteling, and made-to-measure orders, standard software did not make the cut. Brooks Brothers selected Zudy Vinyl platform to build…
Holger Mueller
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Behind the Innovations in SAP S/4HANA Finance Cloud

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Constellation’s Series on Innovation in Financial Management Applications in the Cloud This report reviews the latest offering in financial management applications in the cloud and related Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) trends. Chief Financial Officers…
R Ray Wang
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Delivering Customer Experience to Millennials – A Survival Guide

Marketing Transformation
How to Use Customer Experience to Turn Millennials into Brand Advocates In 2016, the Millennial Generation surpassed Baby Boomers as the nation’s largest living generation, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Millennials, those ages 18 to 34 in 2015,…
Dr. Natalie Petouhoff
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The Cloud Comes into the Private Data Center

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Oracle ZS5 Brings Cloud Scale and Best Practices into On-Premises Data Centers Data storage in a next generation apps world is experiencing a renaissance, even though storage is a commoditized and well-understood function in enterprise computing. Despite lower costs, data…
Holger Mueller
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Using the Right Solution to Propel Digital Transformation

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Case Study: Zudy and Tri-State-Based Pharmaceutical CompanyHow Zudy Reset Expectations and Boosted Productivity with a Powerful No-Code Rapid Application Development PlatformA leading pharmaceutical company, using standard enterprise software applications, struggled with meeting…
Holger Mueller
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Demystifying The Secrets of Global Human Resources

Future of Work
Empower Employees on a Global Scale with Next-Generation Global HR Applications  This report examines how global organizations should utilize Next Generation Global HR applications to drive enterprise agility. Topics covered in this report:Globalization drives…
Holger Mueller
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Infor Partners with Clients to Deliver on Digital Transformation

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Software Vendors and Services Providers Shift Value from Products and Services to Outcomes The convergence of software vendors and services providers foreshadows the challenges organizations face in the selection of digital transformation solutions. The lack of pre-packaged…
R Ray Wang
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The Economic Imperative of ROI for Social Customer Care

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How to Calculate the ROI of Social Customer CareBusinesses today are more customer-driven than ever. With the ubiquity of the internet, social media, and mobile devices, it is easier for customers to research products and services and get opinions from friends and peers…
Dr. Natalie Petouhoff