This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
Rethinking Delivery, Operations, Governance, Organization and Talent
This report examines the representative state of three key pillars of modern IT at five of the world’s leading IT organizations:
Delivery and operations
People (talent and…
Automating, Augmenting and Accelerating the Employee Experience
This report examines how the employee toolset of communication, collaboration and content-creation software is being enhanced by artificial intelligence (AI). The areas discussed are not about visions of the…
Macro Trends That Will Influence Buyers of Workforce Management Systems
This report is about the criteria that CxOs need to apply to the selection of workforce management systems. It also analyzes and discusses the top people trends that are affecting the workplace in general…
The Future Is No Longer Cloud-Only—the Reality Is Workload Portability
This Market Overview describes Next Generation Computing, a new computing paradigm for the enterprise that frees enterprises from workload lock-in, whether on-premises or in the cloud…
How Firms Are Addressing Scarcity and Automation to Illuminate the Future of Human Capital Management
The current human capital landscape is defined by the twin forces of scarcity and automation.
This report examines eight human capital management (HCM) trends that reveal…
How Distributed Ledger Technology Can Change People Processes and Work
This report examines the potential impact of blockchain on people-centric software systems and also reflects on the urgency of a fundamental platform innovation needed in them. Blockchain technology is one…
Why Two-Tier Enterprise Resource Planning Is a Smart Strategy for Growth
This case study examines how Shaw Industries Group, Inc., approached international expansion using a two-tier cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) approach.
How Organizations Are Going Beyond Insight to Drive Actions and Outcomes in 2018
This report identifies five major trends affecting data-driven decision-making in 2018. The trends include the growth of embedded analytics, a steady move toward more real-time decision support,…
Close the Gaps Blocking Broad Use of Deep Learning and Machine Learning Models
Organizations are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) as a path to innovation and product and service differentiation. There are shortcuts to acquiring AI capabilities, such as by tapping cloud…
How CIO Responsibilities Transformed in 2018
This report identifies six ways in which the CIO role has changed in 2018. Key factors include a focus on increased innovation, cybersecurity, a lengthening tenure that may allow more long-term investment, distraction by M&A…
Basic Research on Computing Fundamentals Delivers Once-in-a-Lifetime Performance Improvements
Twitter runs one of the most visible social networks in the world. Its move to a microservices infrastructure has addressed scalability challenges it faced in the past. Because…
Event Report on ADP ReThink 2018, with a Focus on Upcoming Products
Constellation attended ADP’s ReThink conference, held in Monaco, January 30 through February 1, 2018, at the Fairmont Monte Carlo. This event report gives our insights into the key…
Enterprise and Midsize Firms Lead the Way to Fast, Democratized Analysis on Trusted Data Foundations
Leading organizations want to employ data-driven decision-making wherever possible. A cornerstone of meeting that goal is implementing effective self-service business…
As Organizations Move Faster, Here’s How to Transform the People Side
This report defines what enterprise acceleration is about, breaking it down both for people leaders and the human capital management (HCM) function of an enterprise.
It also provides…
Nordic Bank Uses IPsoft's Cognitive Agent Amelia to Drive Digital Transformation
This case study examines SEB Bank's experience implementing IPsoft's Amelia artificial intelligence (AI) platform for use by both internal employees and external customers. Since the Swedish bank…
How Modern Sales and Marketing Professionals Can Improve Conversion-Rate Optimization
Today's modern sales and marketing executives face massive challenges when it comes to capturing the attention of prospects and buyers. Whether for the enterprise or the consumer, more…
AI Budgets Are Modest but Rising Quickly among Early Adopters
This report examines the state of artificial intelligence (AI) investment, development and deployment as well as sources of resistance, potential effects on management and privacy among the first movers,…
Enterprise Software Is Entering a New and Advanced Era
This report describes how, for the first time, the demands of business best practices have been surpassed by the capabilities of technology. This creates an opportunity for enterprises to reinvent enterprise software and…
One of the Best-Kept Secrets of the Oracle Technology Stack
This offering overview examines Oracle Application Express (APEX). This report identifies key differentiators, examines functional capabilities, considers the offering’s strengths and weaknesses,…
Know When to Apply the Right Transformation at the Right Time
The pressure for digital transformation in the boardroom has led executives to jump into their digital journeys. Fail fast, fail often and learn equally fast remains the mantra. While digital transformation is game…
Kaplan Uses SnapLogic and Redshift to Cut Costs, Optimize Its Product Portfolio and Boost Profits
Kaplan Test Prep (Kaplan) is the largest division of Kaplan, Inc., a global higher education company and the largest unit of Graham Holdings (a public company formerly known as…
The New Employee Experience That Speeds Up Personal Productivity and Team Collaboration
In this report, Constellation Research examines the primary hurdles that hinder personal productivity and team collaboration, introduces how digital canvases provide the new user interface…
Platform-as-a-Service Implementation Decisions Have Moved from Developers to Boardrooms.
This report is about the change in best practices required when it comes to selecting and implementing a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) tool across an enterprise that wants to build next…
How Great Architecture DNA and Commitment to R&D Created a Next-Gen Database for Most Enterprise Uses
This offering overview reviews MapR’s latest database product, MapR-DB 6.0. This report identifies key differentiators, measures MapR-DB against…