This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
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Digital business and the experience economy dominate much of today’s discussions about how to run a successful company. Yet understanding of “digital business” often seems limited to engagements through…
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Infor CPQ delivers substantial benefits to companies with complex, end-to-end process requirements, whether or not they run other Infor business applications. For those that do, it enhances the value and usability of Infor ERP offerings. For those that don…
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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…
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To say that marketing automation tools are not new is an understatement. These tools and platforms have served as the underpinning of the marketing operations machine since they were spun out of customer relationship management (CRM) solutions in the early…
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With hopes that 2021 will usher in the dawn of postpandemic business, marketers within business-to-business (B2B) enterprises face unique challenges as they, and their customers, map a path to getting back to business. The key trends driving change in B2B…
Executive Summary
SAP CPQ is a cloud-based, API-first configure, price and quote offering within SAP Sales Cloud that facilitates the purchase of large and/or complex bundles of offerings, including combinations of products and services with distinct pricing and contract…
At a Glance
For any business to be successful, it must be able to understand its customers and anticipate their needs. That requires far more than simply analyzing customer data; it means identifying individual customers and their behaviors in the data. Only by  
Vertica in Eon Mode Taps Object Stores and Hadoop, Separates Compute and Storage Requirements
Vertica is a leading analytical data platform, and it’s among the most important products in the portfolio of Micro Focus International, Plc., a multibillion-dollar…
Five Steps to Disrupt Messaging as Usual
Messaging can pierce through monotony to differentiate and disrupt a customer’s journey. The issue on the minds of many executives is if that disruption is in favor of the organization or at its expense. As customer…
Why Are Companies Still So Bad at it?
As the world went on lockdown, digital channels—in particular, social media—suddenly became essential means of communication for all businesses. But while many individuals use these channels effectively…
Level 4 Autonomous Enterprise Capabilities Delivered in the Digital Platform
This Offering Overview examines the Infosys Live Enterprise Suite. The report describes the underlying market trends, introduces the vendor and presents key differentiators for the Infosys offering…
Set a Broad Strategic Vision, but Implement CPQ with a Phased Approach
Whether you are implementing a configure, price, quote (CPQ) system for the first time or moving to a new one, it is important to take advantage of best practices in order to avoid the major pitfalls and…
A Framework Helps Establish the Deep Brand Trust Today’s Connected Customer Requires
Organizations need an expansive, intentional approach to brand security to align their actions with their customers’ newly heightened expectations for…
Understand the Key Priorities in a Post-Pandemic Response
Over the past three weeks, Constellation Research has fielded hundreds of calls from CxOs about what to consider in the business and technology response to the coronavirus and COVID-19 fallout. In fact, on Friday,…
Why Every Enterprise Will Design for Self-Driving, Self-Learning, Self-Healing Sentience
Traditional transactional applications have run their course. The pressure to reduce margins, technical debt and investment in core systems creates tremendous incentives for the…
Adopt CPQ Tools to Meet Customer Needs, Grow the Top Line and Improve the Bottom Line
In the quest to become more customer-centric—and therefore successful—businesses are prioritizing big changes to the way they sell. For many, configure,…
Einstein Analytics Delivers Predictions and Recommendations Tightly Embedded Within Salesforce Apps
Salesforce is a well-known customer relationship management vendor. Less well known is Salesforce Einstein Analytics, the vendor’s business intelligence, data…
Key Issues, Trends and Opportunities at the Intersection of the Modern Chief Marketing Officer and the Connected Customer
At the dawn of a new decade, chief marketing officers need to decide what kind of marketer they need to be. Will they remain the storyteller-in-chief,…
Networks—Not One-to-One Partnerships—Change the Game for Partnerships and Alliances
Approaches to partnerships and alliances have changed as significantly as the IT industry itself has over the past decade. Traditional channel sales have…
Data-Driven Digital Networks Power Winner-Takes-All Markets
The post-digital era is moving beyond digital transformation. The arrival of new funding models for innovation battle the crippling short-termism that plagues corporate boards and executives and stifles growth…
Refresh Cycle Set for Cloud ERP Market as Automation and AI Drive Innovation
The confluence of an improved market outlook, the shift to the cloud, the pressure of digital transformation and replacement cycle dynamics creates one of the biggest growth opportunities for…
IXD Helps Connect Marketing, Clinical Operations, Patient Accounting and IT in a Patient-Centric World
Much of the discussion around digital transformation in healthcare involves electronic health records and the use of clinical and other data to improve patient…
Business and Technology Trends Enterprises Must Track Through 2024
The Constellation Healthcare AstroChart supplies a visual guide of the trends impacting the overall healthcare business climate. After assessing boardroom priorities, organizations should employ…