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The era of Infinite Computing has cast a spell over business best practices, creating uncertainty about what the best practices of the 21st century are. Architecturally unlimited compute and storage, coupled with cheap networking and the ubiquity of smartphones, create the realm for new strategies on how enterprises manage their value chains. The answer cannot be the best practices of the past, stemming from the finite computing era and being baked into today’s standard software.
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This Constellation ShortList™ presents No Code/Low Code for SAP Systems offerings relevant to early adopters pursuing digital transformation. Offerings included in this document meet the threshold criteria for this category as determined by Constellation Research.
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The Constellation ShortList presents vendors across market categories relevant to early adopters. In addition, products included in this document meet the threshold criteria for this category as determined by Constellation Research. This Constellation ShortList of vendors for a market category is compiled through conversations with early-adopter clients, independent analysis, and briefings with vendors and partners.
In ConstellationTV episode 124, CR analyst co-hosts Holger Mueller and Liz Miller deliver a dynamic mix of humor, insightful analysis, and actionable takeaways for anyone navigating the complex world of enterprise technology and SaaS markets. Whether you're an enterprise executive assessing software solutions, an IT strategist exploring AI frameworks, or simply curious about SaaS trends, this episode provides valuable perspectives.
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Master data management (MDM) is both a technology and a methodology for linking, centralizing, and maintaining enterprise data to a singular point of reference. MDM programs typically include a methodology to support data governance and ensure data quality across the enterprise. This requires a common definition of terms and entities across an organization, as well as a consistent data quality approach for classifying, transforming, augmenting, mastering, securing, delivering, and refreshing enterprise data. Increasingly common is the support for multidomain models across multicloud architectures. As migrations to the cloud accelerate, it’s increasingly important to consider the availability of software-as-a-service options, cloud-native deployments, integrations, and partnerships.
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This ShortList presents Constellation’s selection of hybrid and multicloud analytical data platforms delivered both as deployable software for on-premises and private-cloud environments and as managed database services across multiple public clouds. These deployment options enable enterprises to balance performance, cost, sovereignty, and resilience requirements while maintaining architectural consistency and avoiding vendor lock-in.
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This ShortList evaluates platforms that enable enterprises to define, govern, execute, and continuously improve automated business decisions. Moving beyond the "Productivity Trap" of individual AI copilots, these platforms treat decisions as explicit, reusable "Decision Services" that combine rules, models, and context with runtime governance and accountability to form the foundational building blocks of a Decision-Centric Architecture (DCA).
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Observability and AIOps Services focus on helping organizations implement, operate, and optimize tools that provide visibility, intelligence, and operational insight across modern IT environments. As applications become more distributed and dynamic, enterprises increasingly rely on systems integrators and global services providers to design observability architectures, instrument systems, tune AIOps capabilities, and manage day-to-day operational complexity.
The final wave of Q1 2026 Constellation ShortList™ updates is now live — adding 40 new and refreshed categories to the portfolio.
With this release, Constellation completes its Q1 ShortList™ cycle, reflecting the rapid evolution of AI, security, cloud infrastructure, automation, and enterprise platforms reshaping technology investment priorities in 2026.
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If week one reflected acceleration in generative AI and autonomous systems, week two highlights where enterprise architectures are being re-engineered:
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Researchers took autonomous AI agents for a spin and found they could wreak havoc.
The paper, Agents of Chaos, was penned by researchers from Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, Northeastern University and other institutions.
Here's the key takeaway:
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Workday reported a solid fourth quarter, but its subscription outlook was light.
The company reported fourth quarter earnings of 55 cents a share on revenue of $2.53 billion, up 14.5% from a year ago. Non-GAAP earnings were $2.47 a share.
Wall Street was expecting Workday to report fourth quarter non-GAAP earnings of $2.32 a share on revenue of $2.52 billion.
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Following one of the most information packed Zoho analyst days in recent memory, you are no doubt going to hear a lot of different takes coming from this event. But I think one of the most important takeaways from ZohoDay 2026 is this: Zoho has had the foresight to plan for almost all of the disruptions we are facing in the software industry and maybe one of the most well positioned providers to not only weather the storm but to capitalize on these disruptions in innovative ways.
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Anthropic added a series of connectors and plug-ins to Claude Cowork with the ability for admins to create private plugin marketplaces.
The LLM player also new finance plugins for cross-app workflows to move from Excel to PowerPoint to a deliverable.
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Meta said it has inked a multi-year deal with AMD to deploy multiple generations of AMD Instinct GPUs as well as CPUs and AMD Helios racks. Meta also has an option to acquire up to 160 million shares of AMD common stock as the companies deploy 6 gigawatts of infrastructure.
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OpenAI announced Frontier Alliances, which is a set of system integrators and consultants aimed at deploying "AI coworkers" across enterprises. The ironic--somewhat comical--reality is that large language model (LLM) giants like OpenAI and Anthropic are expected to upend SaaS incumbents yet the playbook being used isn't original in any way.
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Uber launched Uber Autonomous Solutions and the upshot is that the company is looking to be a data and monetization layer for autonomous vehicles.
Questions about whether Uber needed to build autonomous vehicles have lingered for years. Uber spent much of its fourth quarter earnings presentation outlining where it fits in the autonomous vehicle (AV) market. The gist: Uber didn't need to build AVs as much as be a marketplace for them.
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Live from ZohoDay 2026, Constellation analysts hosted a lively roundtable about Zoho’s strategies, customer impact, and the software industry’s future. This conversation covered themes such as Zoho’s unification strategy, the resurgence of ERP, the launch of AppOS, and transformative customer stories. Here’s a look at the highlights.
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Pure Storage said it is changing its name to Everpure and acquiring 1touch, a data intelligence and orchestration company.
With the name change and acquisition, Everpure is pivoting to data management and intelligence. Pure Storage was best known for its solid-state systems, but the reality is that its business also revolved around software subscriptions and storage management.
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The AI-driven disruption in software as a service and ERP is a case of CIOs wrestling control over their tech stacks from vendors, according to Rimini Street CEO Seth Ravin.
Speaking on DisrupTV, Ravin said "you should never give up your ability to make decisions about your own infrastructure." "Moving forward with upgrades and migrations is what the vendor wants. They're not based on an analysis of what the client needs," said Ravin. "It's a vendor-led program."
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Zoho Day 2026 featured dozens of takeaways and insights from an enterprise software company that has historically been disruptive with great value for the money. And AI is likely to push the SaaS hunger games more into its favor.
While we could riff on Zoho-specific takeaways it’s worth highlighting the themes that apply to the broader enterprise software sector including buyers and vendors.
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Beating the Odds in an AI Era: Leadership, Probability Hacking, and the Power of KindnessOn the latest episode of DisrupTV, co-hosts Vala Afshar and R "Ray" Wang sat down with:
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Walmart's Sparky AI agent is delivering outcomes customers that use it have a 35% order value over consumers that don't.
The early returns highlight Walmart's overall AI strategy that revolves around using agentic commerce tools externally and AI and automation internally. Walmart has partnerships with Alphabet as well as OpenAI.
Speaking on Walmart's fourth quarter earnings call, CEO John Furner said:
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