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Digital Optimization: A New Strategy and System for Growth

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Executive Summary 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…
Liz Miller, Nfrance
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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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Infor CPQ Optimizes Configuration Across Operations

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Executive Summary 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…
Nfrance
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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
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Building a Next-Generation Employee Experience: 2021 and Beyond

Future of Work
Executive Summary Employees and organizations have undergone a historic transformation of the work environment over the last year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Productivity, employee engagement, and overall effectiveness have been challenged by remote work, shifts in…
Dion Hinchcliffe
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Platforms Rule Enterprise Application Success in the 2020s

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Executive Summary This Market Overview describes the capabilities of the leading enterprise application platforms (EAPs) and maps their capabilities against a set of buyer criteria distilled from Constellation Research work with buyers in general as well as in specific…
Holger Mueller
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Shaking Up Automation

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Executive Summary 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…
Liz Miller
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AWS Outposts Powers Next-Gen Computing—With a Differentiating Twist

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Executive Summary This report provides an overview of how AWS Outposts has changed the market for next-generation computing platforms. Although the recent past of next-generation compute platforms has been characterized by bringing cloud stacks on-premises, with an…
Holger Mueller
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Malwarebytes Achieves Automation at Scale Using Workato

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At a Glance Cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes needed a better data-integration option for a new cloud-based data warehouse. Bill VanderWall, Malwarebytes’ vice president of business applications, soon learned that his chosen solution, Workato, could be used…
Doug Henschen
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Oracle Makes Its Great Database Even Better—and Adds Low Code to It

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Executive Summary This Offering Overview examines Oracle’s latest database release, Oracle Database 21c, as well as Oracle’s low-code application development offering, Oracle Application Express (APEX). The report describes the underlying…
Holger Mueller
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Better Employee Experience from a Modern Workforce Management Platform

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At a Glance MarketSource provides expert services for its clients across retail locations in North America. The workforce is employed and managed by MarketSource directly while acting as an extension of a retailer or manufacturers in retail. Staffing for flexible retail…
Holger Mueller
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5 Trends Driving Change in B2B Marketing

Marketing Transformation
Executive Summary 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…
Liz Miller
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CFOs and CIOs Seek Modern Finance and Planning

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Executive Summary In the fall of 2020, Constellation Research conducted qualitative and quantitative interviews with more than 300 CIOs and CFOs about their 2021 priorities for financial management and planning. Through these conversations, Constellation sought to…
R Ray Wang
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Modern Planning Platforms Drive Business Agility and Better Outcomes

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Executive Summary “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” It’s an old maxim, but it bears repeating. In fact, the whole point of modern planning is to go through the iterative cycle of planning, analysis, reforecasting…
Doug Henschen
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SAP CPQ Transforms the Sales Process

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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…
Nfrance
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Google Changes the Cloud Market for the Better with Anthos

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Executive Summary This report provides an overview of how Google Anthos has changed the market for next-generation computing platforms. Although the recent past of next-generation compute platforms has been characterized by bringing cloud stacks on-premises, with an…
Holger Mueller
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From Transactions to Customers: Finding People in the Data

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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 â&#128…
Nfrance
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Oracle Brings Holistic Observability to the Enterprise

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How Oracle Cloud Observability and Management Changes DevOps Best Practices At an Oracle virtual launch event on October 6, 2020, Clay Magouyrk announced a new offering in the area of observability and management of complex application technology stacks. Oracle Cloud…
Holger Mueller