This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
Strength of Platforms Massively Affects the Effectiveness of Next-Generation Applications
This Market Overview examines the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) market, which is rapidly changing. The cloud, both as a platform and as a target deployment form, changes how software is…
Business and Technology Trends Enterprises Must Track through 2020
The Constellation AstroChartTM supplies a visual guide of the trends impacting Matrix Commerce. After assessing boardroom priorities, organizations should employ AstroCharts to inform portfolio management.
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ENGIE develops its businesses (power, natural gas and energy services) around a model based on responsible growth to take on the major challenges of the energy industry’s transition to a low-carbon economy: access to sustainable energy, climate-change…
Carrier Taps Looker and Denodo to Bring Flexibility and Reuse to a Changing IT Landscape
Ultra Mobile is a prepaid nationwide carrier that focuses on delivering cost-effective mobile voice, text and data plans for domestic and international callers. Fast business growth and…
Cloud Finance Solutions Evolve to Support the Postmodern CFO
The CFO role faces a plethora of pressures. As the job evolves from that of a traditional finance and accounting executive to a broadly strategic function within enterprises, fundamental changes in business models…
Analytics Platform Delivers Double-Digit Reductions in False Positives
Danske Bank is a Nordic financial services company that operates in 16 countries, serving more than 1,800 corporations and institutions, 236,000 small and midsized companies and 2.7 million personal…
Joint Marketing and Sales Complexity Create Demand for Alliance Automation Solutions
Today’s hypercompetitive business environment challenges organizations to work across multiple internal departments and external partners to deliver a seamless customer…
How Network Economies Will Dominate in an Age of AI-Driven Digital Transformation
Boardrooms and executive team members must find vehicles to jumpstart growth amid competition from nontraditional competitors and a winner-takes-all digital transformation onslaught…
Design Thinking, IBM, Apple and Smart Project Management Are the Key Ingredients
As part of its digital transformation project, Lufthansa rethought the workplace of flight managers, who play a key role in its flight operations. Moving flight managers from PCs and paper to a…
Today's Digital Customer Requires Organizations to Deliver Multichannel Engagement
Today's digitally empowered customers create a challenge for organizations to sell, market and service them effectively. Expectations are higher than ever before, and customers openly share…
Massive Megatrends Looming for 2018-2022 Reflect Fears of Business Extinction
Constellation approaches the 2018-2022 timeframe with a comprehensive point of view using a holistic set of planning assumptions. This report examines the political, economic, societal,…
Optimize Your Infrastructure Strategy Based on Business Priorities, Not Legacy Technical Debt
Over the next three to five years, technology used across the enterprise will be reshaped through a growing a portfolio of line-of-business manager-driven cloud engagements. As these…
Why the CFO’s Mandate Must Embrace Agility amid Digital Transformation
The CFO role faces a plethora of pressures. As the job evolves from that of a traditional finance and accounting executive to a broadly strategic function within enterprises, fundamental…
Salesforce’s Progress in AI & Analytics, Collaboration, Training, Platform, Sales and Marketing
During the first week of November 2017, Constellation analysts congregated in San Francisco for Salesforce’s annual customer conference,…
Cindy Zhou, Holger Mueller, Alan Lepofsky, Dion Hinchcliffe, Doug Henschen
Business and Technology Trends Enterprises Must Track through 2020
The Constellation AstroChartTM supplies a visual guide of the trends impacting the New C-Suite.
After assessing boardroom priorities, organizations should employ AstroCharts to inform portfolio management…
Emerging Technologies and Applications for the Next-Gen Employee
The tools and techniques employees use at work are very different now than they were just a few years ago. This Quark report examines three of the key areas in which employees will need to be proficient for the…
Five Innovations Democratizing Data Prep, Discovery, Analysis, Prediction and Data-Driven Decisions
The tech world is abuzz with talk of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI). Fueling the frenzy are high-profile consumer offerings such as smart personal…
Chief Data Officers and Other CxOs Must Prepare for These Data-Driven Opportunities and Demands
The world is witnessing a renaissance in data-driven decision-making. Sweeping in this new era are next-generation data platforms, real-time processing and analysis capabilities,…
Customers’ Strategy in a Digital World Will Depend on SAP’s Licensing and Pricing Approach
This Quark report looks into the top Constellation Research customer inquiries about their SAP strategies. The report provides an overview of the top five questions and…
A New Chapter of Workforce Management Is Opened
Constellation attended Kronos’ user conference, KronosWorks 2017, held in Las Vegas, November 12–15, 2017, at the Aria Resort and Casino. This year’s KronosWorks was well…
Next Architecture Transcends Microservices
Constellation attended SAP Hybris’ 12th user conference, SAP Hybris Live, held in Barcelona, October 16–19, 2017, at the Fira Barcelona. The event boasted more than 3,300 attendees and marked the…
Everything You Wanted to Know About AI but Were Afraid to Ask
The rush to exponential technologies in new business models has placed artificial intelligence (AI) in the forefront of boardroom priorities for 2018. As leaders move beyond the AI hype, the journey toward AI…
The State of the Boardroom and CXO Leadership in an Era of Digital Business
This report explores the impact of digital transformation on boards of directors and executives. The report highlights five themes boards must address to prepare executives for digital leadership and…
ADP Has Turned the Innovation Corner and Is Becoming a Next-Gen HCM Vendor
ADP is one of the longest-operating human capital management (HCM) and payroll vendors, both in North America and worldwide. Founded in 1949 by Henry Taub, the vendor has grown into a $12+ billion…