This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
SuperNova Award Winner Marco Chekovic, Chief Digital Officer at M1, shares with Larry Dignan how the Singaporean telco underwent a major digital transformation to meet changing customer needs and stay competitive in a crowded market.
Here are a few key takeaways:
📌 Adopted a cloud-first, microservices-based architecture to enhance agility and time-to-market
📌 Leveraged a data lake and advanced analytics to enable hyper-personalized consumer offerings
📌 Partnered with leading technology providers like Salesforce to build a flexible, future-proof stack
M1, Singapore's first digital network operator, has made personalization the cornerstone of its digital transformation, but first it had to retool its infrastructure.
📣 SAP TechEd 2024 was packed with exciting new announcements critical for the SAP ecosystem. Watch below for Constellation analyst Holger Mueller's top takeaways ⬇️
💡 Joule - SAP's AI assistant is now integrated across SAP #applications, providing code explanations and logical reasoning capabilities. It helps onboard users to the SAP Business Technology Platform, automating otherwise complex tasks. Developers can extend Joule with their own #AI models.
As we get deeper into the swing of all things AI, we are left with the reality that the more value our customers can achieve, the more AI they want out of their enterprise software investments. This might be doubly true of AI applications across Customer Experience (CX) spaces like Marketing, Sales and Services. So, it should not be a big surprise that platforms at the intersection of these functions, especially those points where customers most directly interact and engage with organizations, are hungry to capitalize on any and every power-up they can capture.
MongoDB saw revenue growth accelerate in its fiscal third quarter as its MongoDB Atlas platform saw revenue growth of 26%.
The company reported a third quarter net loss of $9.8 million, or 13 cents a share, on revenue of $529.4 million, up 22% from a year ago. Non-GAAP earnings in the quarter were $1.16 a share.
Wall Street was expecting MongoDB to report non-GAAP earnings of 69 cents a share on revenue of $495.72 million.
C3 AI reported better-than-expected second quarter results with revenue growth of 29%. CEO Tom Siebel said the company is seeing traction with its Microsoft Azure partnership.
The company reported a second quarter loss of 52 cents a share on revenue of $94.3 million. Non-GAAP loss was 6 cents a share.
Wall Street was expecting C3 AI to report a non-GAAP loss of 16 cents a share on revenue of $91.02 million.
In a statement, Siebel said:
Oracle’s second quarter was strong, but light relative to expectations. Oracle’s cloud revenue was up 24% in the second quarter from a year ago with cloud infrastructure revenue up 52%.
The company reported second quarter earnings of $1.10 a share on revenue of $14.1 billion, up 9% from a year ago. Non-GAAP earnings were $1.47 a share.
Google launched its latest quantum chip called Willow with strong error correction improvements and outlined its roadmap for quantum computing.
In a blog post, Google outlined Willow, which can reduce errors as it scales up using more qubits. Google called the advance a breakthrough that will make quantum systems more reliable.
AWS re:Invent 2024 is in the books with a barrage of news items and product launches, a few steps toward integrated suites of cloud services, Matt Garmanâs debut as CEO, a bevy of customer takeaways and a lot of leftover questions.
Matt Garman Has Positively Impacted AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) hosted over 70,000 attendees at its 13th annual reinvent conference in Las Vegas, Nevada on December 2nd to 6th, 2024. Since its humble beginnings in 2012 when there were 6,000 attendees, this event has been on the must-attend list for developer and innovation focused business and technology leaders. After losing three years of momentum, AWS finally found the right replacement for Andy Jassy with Matt Garman as the new AWS CEO. This year’s announcements showcase significant product investments that will provide a stronger roadmap of how AWS will support AI startups and enterprises moving fast into AI. Overall, announcements from reinvent reflect a deep customer understanding.
Driving the Next Big Innovation: DisrupTV Episode 383
On DisrupTV Episode 383, hosts R "Ray" Wang and Vala Afshar sit down with George Conrades, former CEO of Akamai Technologies and board member at Oracle, and Stephan Meier, Columbia Business School professor and author of The Employee Advantage: How Putting Workers First Helps Business Thrive. Their conversation centers on how intentional leadership and an employee-centric mindset ignite transformational innovation.
The list of VMware rivals trying to poach workloads is swelling and recent days highlight how vendors are stepping up the pressure.
HPE CEO Antonio Neri said that customers are interested in its HPE VM Essentials product line as they look to manage virtualization across HPE, VMware and other players.
Centurion Health Chief Clinical Officer Johnny Wu is used to technology workarounds in healthcare since his company is focused on serving patients in prisons.
HPE reported better-than-expected fourth quarter results as server revenue surged due to AI demand. HPE also said that it expects its acquisition of Juniper Networks to close in early 2025.
The company said it has a backlog for AI systems orders to more than $3.5 billion.
HPE reported fourth quarter earnings of 99 cents a share on revenue of $8.5 billion, up 15% from a year ago. Non-GAAP revenue in the fourth quarter of 58 cents a share.
In this BT150 Spotlight interview, Constellation Insights editor in chief Larry Dignan sat down with Johnny Wu, the Chief Clinical Officer of Centurion Health, one of the largest healthcare providers in the correctional space.
Amazon Web Services has added new features to AWS Marketplace that will resonate with enterprise procurement teams, grow the cloud provider's reach and bring Amazon's commerce knowhow to partner websites.
At re:Invent, AWS fleshed out its AWS Marketplace strategy with three launches:
📺 ConstellationTV episode 94 is here! Co-hosts Holger Mueller and Liz Miller kick things off by analyzing the latest CEO moves in #tech, including #Workday's new hire Rob Ansel and #AWS's new CMO Julia White.
Next, catch a fascinating discussion with Holger and Jonathan Becher of the San Jose Sharks about the innovative use of #AI technology in professional sports.
📺 ConstellationTV episode 94 is here! Co-hosts Holger Mueller and Liz Miller kick things off by analyzing the latest CEO moves in #tech, including #Workday's new hire Rob Ansel and #AWS's new CMO Julia White.
Next, catch a fascinating discussion with Holger and Jonathan Becher of the San Jose Sharks about the innovative use of #AI technology in professional sports.
AWS CEO Matt Garman at re:Invent 2024 elaborated on the company's strategy to serve up foundational building blocks, Intel's future, model choices, sustainability and why storylines about Trainium competing with Nvidia are misplaced.
Most of Garmanâs comments were follow-ups on the happenings at re:Invent. Hereâs the news stack:
Amazon Web Services added capacity sharing and training plans to Amazon SageMaker Hyperpod and added Lumi AI and Poolside models to Amazon Bedrock's selection of third party models. AWS also launched Amazon Bedrock Marketplace.
The news was announced at a re:Invent 2024 keynote by Dr. Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of AI and Data at AWS. AWS add-on to the previous updates to SageMaker and Bedrock.
Amazon Bedrock handily outperforms do-it-yourself approaches for common generative AI use cases as platform-as-a-service simplifies enterprise adoption, according to a Constellation Research report by Holger Mueller.