This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
Market Description
The revenue platforms sector continues to be a crowded one, even as consolidation begins to enter into the equation. Although these solutions started out as tools for improving on the foundational limitations of legacy sales automation systems, they have…
Introduction
Amid macro forces of automation and artificial intelligence (AI), companies continue to invest in keeping their existing human employees happy and engaged. The employee experience (EX) platform market is designed to improve the work environment through surveys,…
Introduction
Tableau is an innovator and market leader in the analytics and business intelligence (BI) market that almost single-handedly introduced the era of self-service analytics and BI. Ever since that time, two decades ago, Tableau has been the target of imitators,…
Introduction
Once generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) grabbed the world’s attention, in 2023, a technology arms race ensued, with the leading purveyors of large language models (LLMs) outdueling each other to deliver ever larger and more capable…
Executive Summary
Over the past year, generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has ushered in a new era of automation and productivity. Almost every business leader can see the impacts and disruption ahead. Organizations will need digital tools adoption, AI skills training,…
Executive Summary
Nearly all industries are being disrupted by multiple factors these days. Big changes such as the shifts to subscription/retention economic models, the impact of AI, and the need to deal with rising costs have necessitated a new perspective on growth. No…
Executive Summary
A few select software vendors are taking a thoughtful approach to ethical and responsible generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) offerings, and Adobe is one of them.
With its set of GenAI offerings, first introduced in March 2023, Adobe is…
Market Description
AI-powered B2B marketing automation tools have transformed the industry by delivering highly personalized, targeted, and creative customer journeys. These tools, especially beneficial for larger enterprises, leverage AI to segment data, identify…
Market Description
The revenue platforms sector continues to be a crowded one, even as consolidation begins to enter into the equation. Although these solutions started out as tools for improving on the foundational limitations of legacy sales automation systems, they…
Customer Story Spotlight
Scotts Miracle-Gro’s three-year strategic plan aims to drive an average of 3% annual growth, with retail expansion and direct-to-consumer channels playing a big role. Consumer and user experience at the world’s…
Market Description
AI-powered B2B marketing automation tools have transformed the industry by delivering highly personalized, targeted, and creative customer journeys. These tools, especially beneficial for larger enterprises, leverage AI to segment data, identify…
Executive Summary
The revenue platforms market continues to evolve rapidly. This is due to several factors—namely that most businesses are continuing to transform their business models to better support a “retention-focusedâ€&…
About This Constellation ShortListâ„¢
Perspectives on customer success have been evolving over the past several years. As we find ourselves more entrenched than ever in the “retention” and “…
Customer Story Spotlight
Rivian has new models planned and a $5 billion partnership with Volkswagen Group that may enable the electric vehicle maker to emerge as a top software-defined vehicle provider. The journey for Rivian’s integrated vehicle stack…
Customer Story Spotlight
For Ian Cole, chief innovation officer of Give Kids The World Village (GKWV), returns on technology investments are measured in smiles. GKWV is an 89-acre nonprofit “storybook” resort in Kissimmee, Florida, that…
Customer Story Spotlight
Virginie Nowak, Group Chief Customer Experience Officer at Access Bank PLC, had an interesting problem to solve: How do you maintain and improve customer experience (CX) at a bank with multiple touchpoints and employee turnover in an emerging…
Executive Summary
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) ushers in a new wave of optimism for transforming how every organization plans, operates, automates, and differentiates in the market. These unique opportunities, brought on by GenAI, will impact areas such as…
Executive Summary
One of the largest opportunities for digital transformation is the digitization of customer communications and document automation. Most organizations have been stymied by a patchwork of bespoke systems and legacy architecture traversing manual processes…
Introduction
Constellation’s 2023 H2 “CxO Business Confidence Survey” assesses the confidence of C-suite executives in today’s business and technology climate as well as their financial outlook for 2023…
Executive Summary
With artificial intelligence (AI) projects all the rage, organizations must make a strategic determination to create a new CxO role, at least at a functional level if not at a title level. This decision should not be made lightly, however. Although the chief…
Executive Summary
This report examines important product introductions at Salesforce’s September 2023 Dreamforce event, starting with a rewrite of the company’s core platform to introduce the Einstein 1 Platform, with its unified metadata…
Executive Summary
In 2020, when the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic forced all businesses to move online, the majority had to mature their digital operations rapidly rather than taking the time to evolve naturally. Out of business necessity, every surviving enterprise has…
Executive Summary
The potential of generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) is taking the world by storm. Leading organizations and fast followers are developing gen AI strategies and, in some cases, launching initial capabilities. Success will depend on having accurate,…
Introduction
Constellation’s 2023 H1 “CxO Business Confidence Survey” assesses the confidence of C-suite executives in today’s business and technology climate as well as their financial outlook for 2023…