This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
Equifax has transformed from a traditional credit bureau to a company offering government, human resources, talent, property, employment and income and other data services. Equifax's cloud, data and business reinvention started with a 2017 data breach that affected 147 million people in what amounts to a fascinating comeback tale.
The journey isn't yet complete for Equifax, but the company's total addressable market has swelled as it continues to add data services and expands organically and with bolt-on acquisitions.
Watch a webinar between CR analyst Holger Mueller and Neptune Software CSO Mattias Steiner about the winning combination of digitalizing low-code and portals for quick ROI.
The following video is the second episode in a series of conversations about cloud technology between Holger Mueller, Constellation VP & Principal Analyst, and Thomas Saueressig, SAP Executive Board Member. In this segment, Thomas answers the question, "What matters in cloud architecture?"
The following video is the first episode in a series of conversations about cloud technology between Holger Mueller, Constellation VP & Principal Analyst, and Thomas Saueressig, SAP Executive Board Member. In this segment, Thomas answers the question, "What is the cloud all about?"
Enterprise technology customers in 2023 hit a few common themes that revolved around data strategy, setting their companies up for generative AI applications, transformation, sustainability, customer experience and continuous optimization to pay for new initiatives.
Here’s a look at the big lessons from 2023 (Constellation Insights PDF library).
In this, the year of Taylor Swift, it feels oddly fitting that Adobe and Figma have just announced their breakup. Like all good angsty love stories immortalized in an Era’s Tour set, we had the Figma indie-cool-kid rebel agreeing to roll with the digital class President in the established and voted Most Likely to Succeed Adobe. Torn apart by well-intentioned but out-of-touch outsiders, the two have closed this chapter of their idyllic yet improbably love affair.
In London last week, WalkMe Analyst Day 2023 â an exploration of their progress so far with their digital adoption platform â began in the morning with a company overview by their CMO, Adriel Sanchez. Digital adoption is a vital new digital experience category that makes it significantly easier to increase impactful results for users with existing and new IT systems.
Alteryx is going private in a $4.4 billion deal including debt. Clearlake Capital and Insight Partners will pay $48.25 a share in cash for each Alteryx share.
The price is a 59% premium to Alteryx's closing price Sept. 5 when reports surfaced about the potential buyout.
ServiceNow said it will acquire UltimateSuite, a task mining company, in a move that brings the company more in line with automating processes and tasks as well as workflows.
UltimateSuite's flagship product revolves around task mining, but it also offers robotics process automation (RPA). In recent years, ServiceNow has acquired parts that put it more in competition with Celonis and UiPath on multiple fronts.
Adobe and Figma are calling off their $20 billion merger since the deal was unlikely to get regulatory approval from the European Commission and UK Competition and Markets Authority.
IBM will buy StreamSets and webMethods from SoftwareAG in a deal valued at â¬2.13 billion. IBM said the deal will bolster AI platform watsonx's ability to ingest data.
Silver Lake is Software AG's majority owner. At Software AG, webMethods and StreamSets served as the root of its integration platform-as-a-service play. IBM paid cash for StreamSets and webMethods.
DisrupTV Episode 346: Fast-Tracking Personal & Professional Transformation with Jon Reed & Wendy Leshgold
In DisrupTV Episode 346, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage in a transformative conversation with two distinguished guests who delve into the strategies and mindsets necessary for rapid personal and professional growth:
Tis the season for stolen and damaged packages, warranties and potentially a startup named Extend. Extend's platform, which merchandises and optimizes warranties and shipping protection, resolves claims with data, orchestration and artificial intelligence.
Intel's launch of its Core Ultra mobile processors and 5th Gen Intel Xeon chips rhymed with product rollouts of yesteryear, but this one had higher stakes. Intel had to prove that it can be an AI player along with Nvidia and AMD even though the company is playing catch-up with its Gaudi3 AI accelerator.
In New York, CEO Pat Gelsinger made it clear that AI is "in the early innings." In fact, AI may just be still in the preseason of the impact it'll have. There's a big opportunity to leverage AI everywhere across the computing stack to create augmented intelligence.
Salesforce is adding a vector database and generative AI-powered search to Data Cloud as it aims to surface unstructured data and combine it with CRM data.
The updates, Data Cloud Vector Database and Einstein Copilot Search, were announced at Salesforce's New York World Tour stop. Data Cloud Vector Database will be built into Salesforce's Einstein 1 Platform.
Adobe reported better-than-expected fourth quarter earnings as revenue was up 12% from a year ago.
The company reported fourth-quarter earnings of $1.48 billion, or $3.23 a share, on revenue of $5.05 billion. Non-GAAP earnings for the fourth quarter were $4.27 a share.
Wall Street was expecting fourth-quarter earnings of $4.14 a share on revenue of $5.02 billion.
🚨 Announcing Constellation's BEST and WORST in enterprise tech for 2023 🚨
The results are IN for the 2023 Enterprise Awards... Check out the winners/runners-up for major WINS and biggest FLOPS from the past 12 months and learn what motivated Constellation analysts to make these selections ➡ https://bit.ly/4ajenrt
👏 Congrats to the winners, and cheers to another exciting and unexpected year in tech!
You can sum up 2023 in two words: Generative AI. There wasn't an enterprise that hasn't been affected by generative AI even though many efforts remain in the pilot stage. The year will go down as one of innovation, large language models, efficiency, productivity and some odd plot twists (yes, we're talking about you OpenAI).
Google built on its launch of its Gemini large language model (LLM) with Gemini Pro, Google AI Studio and other tools developers and enterprises can use for generative AI use cases.
Annual List of Hits and Misses Recognize the Innovators and Disruptors Across Enterprise Technology CUPERTINO, Calif. – December 13, 2023 – Shantanu Narayen, CEO of Adobe, was named as Enterprise Technology CEO of the Year in Constellation Research’s annual 2023 Enterprise Awards. Narayen was singled out for his strength in leadership, specifically for leaning into AI and Firefly when critics said AI would kill creative jobs.
Intuit may be the best example of the need to have a data strategy before tackling generative AI. The company, which has had to adapt to technology and economic shifts for 40 years, realized five years ago that data and AI would be fundamental to its core mission.
Oracle posted a mixed second quarter as cloud revenue was $4.8 billion, up 25% from a year ago but up slightly sequentially. Oracle reported better-than-expected second quarter earnings with a revenue miss.
The company reported second-quarter earnings of 89 cents a share on revenue of $12.9 billion, up 5% from a year ago. Non-GAAP earnings in the second quarter were $1.34 a share.