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Careers are often measured by titles and compensation, but leadership decisions are usually shaped by something deeper: understanding your own value. At the Davos World Economic Forum, Constellation founder R "Ray" Wang joined Udemy's Elizabeth Weingarten to discuss the mindset behind taking risks and building something of your own. A pivotal moment came from a simple question his father asked during a major transition: not “What will you EARN?” but “What are you WORTH?”
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Google launched Gemini 3.1 Pro, an update that will be available in Vertex AI, Gemini Enterprise and consumer subscription plans.
The launch is Gemini's first .1 LLM release. Gemini 3.1 Pro lands after an update to Gemini 3 Deep Think. For Google, the Gemini update lands as OpenAI is making ChatGPT updates and Anthropic increasingly steals LLM headlines with its releases and fuse for the SaaS stock meltdown.
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Zoho Day 2026 did not disappoint. From Zoho's new app OS architecture and de-layered platform vision to a unified data layer powering AI, CRM, and RevTech, the message was clear: integration tax is the new AI tax, and Zoho plans to crush it.Hear what the Constellation analyst team had to say on personal takeaways and implications for the future of enterprise technology.
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Quantinuum is seeing strong demand for its new Helios quantum computer and is hitting an inflection point as businesses prepare for real-world use cases, according to Honeywell CEO Vimal Kapur.
Honeywell owns 52% of Quantinuum, which is preparing for an initial public offering this year.
Kapur, speaking at Citi's Global Industrial Tech & Mobility Conference 2026, said Quantinuum's Helios system solves for fidelity and accuracy. "For every two physical qubits, we can produce 1 logical qubit," said Kapur. "That's a big deal in quantum."
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Zoho previewed AppOS, which is an effort to create a platform with a shared data foundation, common business and process models, built-in workflows and automation, governance and applications built inside of the platform.
With inspiration from Apple's iOS, Zoho CEO Mani Vembu, speaking at Zoho Day 2026, said the company is building a platform that does the following:
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Vijay Sundaram, Chief Strategy Officer at Zoho, may have just given the best defense of SaaS in the age of LLMs. SaaS shifted risk from customers to vendors. How many of those customers will want that risk back for a shiny new LLM?
Today, you'd think Anthropic would replace every piece of enterprise software. But you know that already. Sundaram riffed on what's changing in SaaS, the questions to ask and why enterprises need to think through control and risk posture. Recent headlines:
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The Q1 2026 Constellation ShortList™ portfolio updates are here with 43 new and refreshed categories reflecting where enterprise technology investment is accelerating right now.
As AI, automation, cybersecurity, and next-gen infrastructure reshape enterprise priorities, leaders need clarity on which vendors are truly driving market momentum. Constellation’s ShortLists™ provide that signal.
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The Strategic Response Management (SRM) sector is a newly emerging software category, driven primarily by advancements in generative and other AI technologies. SRM encompasses software offerings (or portions of offerings) designed to automate and optimize processes for responding to requests for proposals (RFPs), requests for information (RFIs), and other inquiries throughout the customer lifecycle.
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The Customer Growth Automation sector could be considered a subset of customer success technology; however, users of this technology need not necessarily have a customer success program or software in place. Customer Growth Automation looks to measure customer/user behavior (especially for digital products and services) to better identify trends and opportunities. These can be potentially negative, such as churn, or positive, such as cross-sell and upsell opportunities.
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About This Constellation ShortListPerspectives on customer success have been evolving over the past several years. As we find ourselves more entrenched than ever in the “retention” and “everything as a service” economy, customer success as a technology category is becoming a far more critical element than a simple tool for tracking subscription/software-as-a-service (SaaS) renewal cycles.
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About This ShortListCyber resilience has evolved beyond backup and recovery to encompass an organization’s ability to withstand, recover from, and adapt to cyber incidents with minimal business disruption. As ransomware, insider risk, and cloud misconfigurations increasingly target critical data rather than just infrastructure, cyber resilience now depends on understanding what data matters, where it resides, and how quickly and safely it can be restored.
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About This ShortListCybersecurity Services continue to play a central role as organizations face a growing volume of threats, expanding attack surfaces, and persistent skills shortages. While enterprises invest heavily in security platforms, many still rely on service providers to design, implement, operate, and continuously improve their security programs. As a result, cybersecurity services remain anchored in two core areas: implementation services and managed services.
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About This ShortListCollaborative Product Development solutions help organizations align product strategy, design, and delivery around shared understanding of customer needs and business priorities. These tools enable product, design, engineering, and go-to-market teams to collaborate more effectively across the product lifecycle, from early discovery to ongoing iteration and optimization.
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AI Application Development Platforms enable developers to build, ship, and operate AI-native applications that combine generative capabilities with agentic behavior. These platforms go beyond model access or standalone code assistants to provide the runtime, tooling, and orchestration required to turn AI into production-grade applications.
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Autonomous IT Platforms represent the next stage in the evolution of observability and AIOps. As IT environments have become more distributed, dynamic, and software-driven, visibility alone is no longer sufficient. Organizations need platforms that can observe what is happening, determine what matters, explain why it matters, and support timely and safe operational action.
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About This ShortListCustom Software Development Services (CSDS) are evolving as enterprises move beyond traditional application development toward AI-enabled, adaptive software systems. While off-the-shelf software continues to address common use cases, organizations increasingly rely on CSDS providers to design and build solutions that reflect unique business processes, data assets, and operating models.
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About This ShortListOperational Technology (OT) security has become a critical component of enterprise cybersecurity as industrial systems increasingly connect to IT networks, cloud platforms, and remote operations. Industries such as manufacturing, energy, utilities, and healthcare rely on OT environments to support safety-critical and mission-essential processes, making disruption or compromise a direct business and operational risk rather than a purely technical concern.
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About This Constellation ShortListAutonomous Cloud Data Warehouse Services represent the most mature, production- grade class of cloud-native analytical database services designed to minimize administrative tasks while maximizing analytics availability. These services simplify infrastructure management through serverless elasticity, self-tuning performance optimization, and automated lifecycle operations allowing enterprises to focus on delivering analytics, AI, and decision outcomes rather than managing platforms.
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IPaaS continues its evolution from traditional connectivity and efficiency for cloud-based integration into a broader execution platform that orchestrates workflows across applications, APIs, events, and data. These platforms support a transition toward composable architectures, allowing organizations to automate multi-step processes, respond to real-time events, and establish the governed reuse of digital assets.
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About This Constellation ShortListThis ShortList evaluates platforms that enable enterprises to deliver decision- grade data into cloud-based analytical data platforms and the operational systems where decisions are executed. These solutions move beyond traditional batch-oriented pipelines by combining data integration, AI-ready transformation, near real-time orchestration, and activation to support analytics, AI, and operational decisioning at scale. The focus is on platforms that help data and AI leaders reduce time-to-decision by:
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About This Constellation ShortListCitizen development is the enablement of the tech savvy business userwith low-friction tools to create useful applications on their own, with as little outside assistance as possible.
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About This Constellation ShortList2025 was the year where AI continued its transformation fo all aspects of software devlopment, one key focus area remains code generation and with that developers have been affected on how to write, review and organize code. With the progress in 2025, we have seen a major step forward towards ASO (see below), with more to come in 2026.
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About This Constellation ShortListAs enterprises are faced with business best-practice uncertainty due to Infinite Computing (for more, see here), they need to build software again in-house. They create next-generation applications, typically on cloud-based platforms, where for the first time in computing history, they don’t have direct access to the physical infrastructure. This requires them to formalize their software delivery processes. “Software delivery through software” is how this is described, and it becomes a programmatic way to manage infrastructure.