This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan said that VMware has heard from enterprise customers and made VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) more integrated and user friendly to be the private cloud platform of choice.
Tan, speaking at VMware Explore in Las Vegas, said:
Nvidia launched NIM Agent Blueprints, which are reference AI workflows aimed at bringing generative AI to specific use cases.
With the move Nvidia is looking to bring more generative AI prototypes to production and drive business value. Enterprises have plenty of use cases, but often data issues get in the way. With NIM Agent Blueprints, Nvidia is giving enterprise developers more turnkey options.
Apple CFO Luca Maestri will step down on Jan. 1, 2025, but remain leader of the company's corporate services group, which includes information systems and technology, information security and real estate and development.
Kevan Parekh, vice president of financial planning and analysis at Apple, will become CFO.
Both Maestri and Parekh will report to CEO Tim Cook. With Maestri as CFO, Apple more than doubled revenue and grew the services business by more than 5x.
IBM is looking to give its IBM Z systems an AI and large language model (LLM) twist as it outlined its upcoming IBM Telum II Processor and IBM Spyre Accelerator for upcoming mainframes.
At the Hot Chips 2024 conference, IBM is outlining new processors and architectures to keep mainframes relevant in an AI age.
Liz Miller talks Constellation ShortLists, unpacking the category of Digital Asset Management (DAM) for High Volume Commerce and its leading solutions. DAM has always represented the last mile of hashtag#technology that pulls everything together. It's where the intersection of planning, assets, documents, etc. can meet and be deployed. And in today's world, DAM has to be used everywhere and available at scale.
Peraton, a next-generation national security company, is continually searching for talent including employees with high-security clearances. But the real win for Peraton has been courting internal candidates.
The company is an integrator and enterprise IT provider for the US government. Peraton provides cybersecurity, digital, cloud, operations and engineering services for space, intelligence, homeland security, health and defense among others.
AI in Healthcare & Leadership Development
DisrupTV Episode 373 — Anand Iyer, Frederik Pferdt & Jeff Wetzler
In DisrupTV Episode 373, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage with Anand Iyer, Chief AI Officer at Welldoc; Dr. Frederik G.
Andrew Loescher, Ultra Tool & Manufacturing Automation Specialist, shares the importance of #automation and #optimization of the shop floor. Andrew is a SuperNova award finalist for Constellation Research and tells his story to Editor in Chief Larry Dignan.
View the full case study here: https://www.constellationr.com/node/33436/vote/application/view/1068
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Full video transcript (Disclaimer: this transcript is not edited and may contain errors)
As #enterprises face longer and more flexible working hours, they need help tracking time, scheduling attendance, and managing worker attendance. Leaders need tools to help their operational managers make better #workforce management decisions. #ai is also changing enterprise #automation substantially. Vendors need AI-based automation in the core workforce management automation areas – with tangible success.
💡 With this context in mind, Holger Mueller highlights his Workforce Management Suites ShortList and why ADP made the list! Watch below ⬇️
Nvidia has developed a system that preserved large language model (LLM) accuracy with less precision. The system, which will be outlined at the Hot Chips conference, highlights how Nvidia's AI game is becoming more about software and optimization as much as it is hardware.
In a briefing, Dave Salvator, Director of Accelerated Computing Products at Nvidia, outlined the Nvidia Quasar Quantization System and Research.
Workday’s second quarter was better than expected as revenue posted growth of 16.7%. The company also moved to build out its Workday Payroll services.
The cloud HR and finance firm, reported second-quarter earnings of 49 cents a share on revenue of $2.085 billion, up 16.7% from a year ago. Non-GAAP earnings were $1.75 a share.
Wall Street was expecting Workday to report earnings of $1.65 a share on revenue of $2.07 billion.
Prior to its big Dreamforce event next month, Salesforce gave a sneak peek as to the next phase of its AI vision today, with the pre-announcement of two new autonomous AI sales agents: Einstein Sales Development Rep (SDR) Agent and Einstein Sales Coach Agent.
The #revenue platforms market continues to evolve rapidly. This is due to several factors—namely that most businesses are continuing to transform their #business models to better support a “retention-focused” economy and that businesses must rethink their #growth strategies in the wake of this development. Revenue platforms, which previously focused solely on sales actions, need to accommodate more stakeholders along the journey, including #customer-success in addition to other postsale departments.
Snowflake reported strong product revenue growth 29% in the second quarter and raised its outlook.
As usual with Snowflake, it takes a long scroll to figure out what the company actually made or lost. Snowflake reported a second quarter net loss of $317 million, or 95 cents a share, on revenue of $868.82 million. Non-GAAP second quarter earnings for Snowflake were 18 cents a share.
Peraton, a next-generation national #security company, is continually searching for talent including employees with high-security clearances. But the real win for Peraton has been courting internal candidates.
The company is an integrator and enterprise IT provider for the US government. Peraton provides #cybersecurity, #digital, #cloud, operations and #engineering services for #space, #intelligence, homeland security, health and #defense, among others.
Data management and data quality is getting more investment from enterprises because it's the biggest risk factor in moving generative AI to production, according to a Deloitte survey.
Deloitteâs State of Generative AI in the Enterprise report for the third quarter found that data quality is the biggest risk to generative AI projects, according to a survey of 2,770 director-level to CxO respondents.
Great news! As promised, we published an additional 39 lists from the Constellation ShortList™ portfolio today.
Each technology vendor on this list has been chosen based on their products and services offering. Our analysts consider technology investment, use cases, strategic vision, customer value, executive leadership and price when anointing a vendor the ShortList™.
Today, we released these 39 new and updated lists:
Lowe's said it is navigating a "challenging industry backdrop for the homeowner" with technology projects that drive productivity, enable omnichannel retailing and customer experiences.
On Lowe's second quarter earnings conference call, the company outlined a bevy of technology projects even as it reported mixed results and cut its fiscal 2024 outlook.
Here's a look at some of the technology projects outlined by Lowe's.
OpenAI said GPT-4o fine tuning, which will enable you to customize the company's best model with proprietary data sets, is available to developers across all paid usage tiers.
Palo Alto Networks reported better-than-expected fourth quarter results and raised its outlook for the first quarter.
For the fourth quarter, Palo Alto Networks reported net income of $357.7 million, or $1.01 a share, on revenue of $2.2 billion, up 12% from a year ago. Non-GAAP earnings for the fourth quarter were $1.51 a share.