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ESG Solutions Address the Impending ESG Imperative

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Executive Summary This Big Idea report examines environmental, social, and governance (ESG) solutions and offerings. Growing interest in supporting a wide range of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has led to new frameworks that address areas from climate…
R Ray Wang
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Oracle Switches to Autopilot, Turns Up the Heat With MySQL Database Service

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Executive Summary This Offering Overview examines Oracle MySQL Database Service with HeatWave and its new machine learning-driven Autopilot capabilities.The report describes the underlying market trends, introduces the vendor, and presents key differentiators for Oracle…
Holger Mueller
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Epicor Kinetic Doubles Down on Product-Centric ERP

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Executive Summary The COVID-19 pandemic exposed weaknesses in every organization’s back-office system. The inability to easily access data, enable self-service capabilities, and intelligently automate processes has created demand for self-driving and…
R Ray Wang
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Zoho Creator Platform Redefines EAP With a Deeply Integrated Platform

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Executive Summary This report provides an overview of Zoho’s Creator platform, which allows Zoho customers to extend and integrate their Zoho applications as well as build their own automation capabilities. Zoho has a corporate DNA of â€&#156…
Holger Mueller
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C3 AI Powers Next-Gen Apps With Its Innovative Enterprise AI Platform

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Executive Summary This report provides an overview of how the C3 AI platform enables enterprises to build next-generation AI applications. Some of the world’s largest companies in manufacturing, energy, financial services, defense, and other industries have…
Holger Mueller
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Oracle Affirms Its Strategic Role in Banking

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Introduction In the era of digital transformation, IT has evolved from being a pure cost factor to a strategic weapon as enterprises strive to stay ahead of their competition by innovating their IT platforms. Data is at the forefront of digital transformation, because…
Holger Mueller
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IBM Becomes Multidimensional Again

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Introduction Before, during, and after IBM’s acquisition of Red Hat, IBM’s messaging became very one-dimensional, describing the hybrid cloud opportunity the vendor plans to leverage. This was an understandable reaction to one of the…
Holger Mueller
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FinancialForce Moves Up Market With Spring 2021 Release

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Executive Summary   The COVID-19 pandemic exposed weaknesses in every organization’s back-office system. The inability to easily access data, enable self-service capabilities, and intelligently automate processes has created demand for self-driving…
R Ray Wang
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There Is a HeatWave for Databases: Oracle MySQL Database Service Merges OLTP and OLAP

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Executive Summary This Offering Overview examines Oracle MySQL Database Service with HeatWave. The report describes the underlying market trends, introduces the vendor, and presents key differentiators for Oracle’s offering. It continues with an analysis…
Holger Mueller
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Unit4 Changes the ERP Market with Its EAP Platform

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Executive Summary This report provides an overview of how Unit4’s platform powers the Unit4 enterprise resource planning (ERP) offerings. Unit4 has gone through a substantial platform investment that was started a few years ago and recently concluded under…
Holger Mueller
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Infor CloudSuite ERP Delivers on Industry-Specific Solutions

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Executive Summary The COVID-19 pandemic exposed weaknesses in every organization’s back-office system. The inability to easily access data, enable self-service capabilities, and intelligently automate processes has created demand for self-driving and…
R Ray Wang
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The Business Case for Dynamic Skills

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Executive Summary The postpandemic world requires new levels of agility and resilience. Organizations must empower their employees and workers with the skills for digital proficiency. Success requires leaders to apply a dynamic skills approach to future-proof the workforce…
R Ray Wang
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Oracle Cloud ERP Builds on Analytics, Automation, and AI Lead

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Executive Summary The COVID pandemic has exposed weaknesses in every organization’s back-office system. The inability to easily access data, enable self-service capabilities, and intelligently automate processes has created demand for self-driving and…
R Ray Wang
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OKRs: COOs Can Drive Sustainable Change with This Breakthrough Approach

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Executive Summary Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) as a framework for corporate goal-setting have reached a watershed moment in the industry, due to their track record of helping organizations achieve strategic results, but they often are unfamiliar to chief operating…
Dion Hinchcliffe
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SAP S/4HANA Rises in Postdigital World

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Executive Summary The COVID-19 pandemic exposed weaknesses in every organization’s back-office system. The inability to easily access data, enable self-service capabilities, and intelligently automate processes has created demand for self-driving and…
R Ray Wang
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Infor OS Powers Next-Gen ERP with a Rich Platform

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Executive Summary This report provides an overview of how Infor Operating Service (Infor OS) powers the Infor ERP offerings. Infor became the first ERP system to operate in the public cloud: Charles Phillips, the Infor CEO at the time, announced at the AWS Summit 2014 in…
Holger Mueller
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IBM Cloud Satellite Gives CxOs More Choices for Running Next-Gen Apps

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Executive Summary This report provides an overview of how IBM Cloud Satellite (Satellite) has changed the market for next-generation computing platforms. Although in the recent past, next-generation computing platforms were characterized by bringing cloud stacks on-premises…
Holger Mueller
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Microsoft Enables the Multicloud Next-Gen Computing Platform With Azure Arc

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Executive Summary This report provides an overview of how Microsoft Azure Arc has expanded the Microsoft value proposition for next-generation computing platforms. Microsoft was the first vendor in this Constellation Market Overview to announce a next-generation computing…
Holger Mueller
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The Universal Database Versus a Suite of Specialized Databases

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Executive Summary This Best Practices report applies the systemic debate of suite versus best of breed to the database choices of the enterprise, in which the universal database is pitted against suites of specialized databases. The report highlights the suite dynamics and…
Holger Mueller
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CMO 2021

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Executive Summary Chief marketing officers (CMOs) held on tight to weather the twists and turns of 2020. With the onset of a new year, opportunities are emerging for the CMO to reshape and redefine what it means to be a growth driver. This report focuses on the key…
Liz Miller
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Infor OS Automates Fast-Growing SMB at Midwest Wheel

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At a Glance Midwest Wheel, a fast-growing small- and medium-size business (SMB) known as one of the largest truck part distributors in the midwest United States, switched from a vertical specialist to Infor CloudSuite Distribution and now successfully automates a complete…
Holger Mueller
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Cloud ERP Drives Back-Office Digital Transformation

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Executive Summary The COVID-19 pandemic exposed weaknesses in every organization’s back-office system. The inability to easily access data, enable self-service capabilities, and intelligently automate processes has created demand for self-driving and…
R Ray Wang
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Employee Experience: Moving to a Decisive New Model for the Future of Work

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Executive Summary This report explores the recent emergence of employee experience as the overall holistic model for employee enablement and effectiveness via digital tools, skills, and processes.  It explores the differentiated nature of the modern employee…
Dion Hinchcliffe