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?
This report outlines five KPIs that growth organizations can leverage to both guide their use of agentic AI tools and measure their effectiveness. These KPIs span from productivity gains for human workers to improvements in business outcomes, including conversion rates and overall customer satisfaction. Learn practical examples of how practitioners can quickly implement and measure their AI usage and track success.
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.
Executive Summary
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…
For growth leaders, adopting revenue intelligence (RI) technology is nonnegotiable for a modern go-to-market (GTM) stack. RI moves beyond simple reporting by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to ingest and analyze data from every customer…
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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…
Market Description
The contact center is an exceptional example of the subtle but critical difference between a bulwark and a vanguard. A bulwark is the defensive core—a protective barrier that acts as a shield—asked to bear the brunt of an…
Customer Story Spotlight
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…
Executive Summary
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…
Market Description
Sales force automation (SFA) solutions focus on documenting and addressing the entirety of the sales process—automating and recording the specific stages, actions, and outcomes of the process as a means to improve productivity of the sales…
Market Description
Sales force automation (SFA) solutions focus on documenting and addressing the entirety of the sales process—automating and recording the specific stages, actions, and outcomes of the process as a means to improve sales force productivity…
Executive Summary
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…
Market Description
Enterprises run enterprise applications to manage and automate their innate value-creation process. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are the most prominent, but there are also customer relationship management (CRM), human resource management (HCM)…
Market Description
Sales force automation (SFA) solutions focus on documenting and addressing the entirety of the sales process—automating and recording the specific stages, actions, and outcomes of the process as a means to improve productivity of the sales…
Executive Summary
Growth leaders have reached a critical moment. The crossroads of highly composable software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications and agentic artificial intelligence (AI) tools are driving a need to rethink how enterprises build, maintain, and optimize their go…
Market Description
Enterprises run on transactions, and this means that transactional databases remain critical for enterprises. The ability to seamlessly scale transactional databases has always been a core challenge for vendors and subsequently for their enterprise users…
Customer Story Spotlight
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…
Executive Summary
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,…
Market Description
Sales force automation (SFA) solutions focus on documenting and addressing the entirety of the sales process—automating and recording the specific stages, actions, and outcomes of the process as a means to improve productivity of the sales…
Executive Summary
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)…