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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.
Caterpillar has plans for artificial intelligence (AI) enabled features in its construction equipment; autonomy at scale and machine learning with computer vision, sensors, and edge computing; and Cat AI Assistant, which enables customers to engage with the company's machines. The bigger story, however, may be the years of transformation, data preparation, and technology infrastructure leading up to Caterpillar's big CES 2026 splash.
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
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…
Executive Summary
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…
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…
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
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…
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)…
Executive Summary
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…
Market Description
In June 2025, IBM shared an updated roadmap for its quantum offerings that reflects new dates and systems as well as the industry’s overall attention to quantum error correction. The report looks at architecture qualities for quantum…
Executive Summary
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…
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…
Executive Summary
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™Public cloud transformational services vendors represent the global managed service providers and system integrators who are helping clients deliver on business transformation, starting with the public cloud.These vendors are helping clients…
About This Constellation ShortListMuch hype has been made about the metaverse. However, very few organizations have fully grasped the impact the metaverse will have on experiences and engagement for both the consumer world and the enterprise. More than just gaming worlds or…