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Introduction: The Evolution from HR to Employee Experience
In the latest episode of DisrupTV, co-hosts Vala Afshar, Chief Digital Evangelist at Salesforce, and R “Ray” Wang, CEO and Founder of Constellation Research, led a timely discussion on how leadership, culture, and work itself are being redefined in the Age of AI.
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You'll have to remove that Meta Horizons Workroom meeting from your calendar after Feb. 16, 2026. Oh you didn't have one scheduled? Apparently no one else did either.
Meta said it was discontinuing its Meta Horizon Workrooms as a standalone application. Meta's post on the topic omitted the obvious: Meetings in the metaverse just didn't happen.
Insight Blog
This post is a very short summary of the last three “Enterprise Technology Intelligence Briefing” books. In that monthly report, we track the enterprise technology topics that matter to executives and boards, and lately, it has been AI. Of course.
Much has been discussed, but succinctly, today's situation can be summarized in four points:
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AWS European Sovereign Cloud is generally available and the cloud provider is planning to expand from Germany to Belgium, the Netherlands and Portugal.
The launch of AWS European Sovereign Cloud is a milestone for Amazon and its plans to invest more than €7.8 billion in the effort.
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CEOs are now driving AI strategy at enterprises and half of them think their jobs are on the line if they don't get it right.
That rather stressful reality comes from a Boston Consulting Group survey on enterprise AI plans.
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Customer Story
Caterpillar has plans for artificial intelligence (AI) enabled features in its construction equipment; autonomy at scale and machine learning with computer vision, sensors, and edge computing; and Cat AI Assistant, which enables customers to engage with the company's machines. The bigger story, however, may be the years of transformation, data preparation, and technology infrastructure leading up to Caterpillar's big CES 2026 splash.
Wikimedia, the foundation behind Wikipedia, said the company has added Microsoft, Mistral AI, Perplexity and others as Wikimedia Enterprise partners to join Amazon, Google and Meta. The Wikimedia Enterprise traction highlights how human-driven content carries a premium.
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MongoDB said it is integrating its Voyage 4 embedding and reranking models into its platform infrastructure in a move that will improve accuracy, deliver better context and help developers scale applications.
With the moves, announced at MongoDB.local San Francisco, MongoDB is looking to grab a bigger piece of the AI applications pie. MongoDB is also creating a unified data intelligence layer for production AI in a move that will enhance its enterprise footprint.
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CRTV kicks off 2026 with Episode 121, focusing on the reality of enterprise AI, decision velocity, and the hype vs. value of humanoid robots at CES. In this episode:
AI, M&A, and Precision Data
Martin Schneider and Larry Dignan break down recent AI-driven M&A and why the real competitive edge is shifting toward secure, precision data and job-to-be-done–focused agents rather than generic AI.
Decision Velocity
Larry talks with Mike Ni, Constellation’s analyst for Data to Decisions, about:
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The Board
Economic slowdown is real. Although the fear of a recession has declined in recent weeks (from 40% to 30% before the Christmas season, according to a distillation of forecasts), other indicators reflect a slowdown in economic activity. The year started with hopes of returning to predictable, stable growth and is ending with deceleration to no growth ahead: a slower job market, stagnant wages, and consumer spending shifting to higher-income segments, hurting affordability for most consumers. AI-boosted economic activity and GDP growth have proved short-lived, as growth has slowed.
As we move into 2026, the question for every executive is: How do we actually measure the success of our technical processes?
It’s not about the depth of your models; it’s about Decision Velocity. In this interview with Constellation analysts Larry Dignan and Michael Ni, we explore why this metric is the key to closing the gap between a pilot program and a successful enterprise-wide implementation.
The Decision Velocity Framework:
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Enterprise AI is shifting from insight to execution, and integration is becoming mission-critical.
Constellation analyst Mike Ni and IBM's Scott Brokaw discuss why yesterday’s human-centric, storage-first data architectures are failing AI agents and how unifying structured and unstructured data with strong governance, lineage, and access control unlocks real business impact.
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Is the Humanoid Robot Trend a Total Bubble?
Constellation analysts Larry Dignan and Esteban Kolsky examine the "parade of robots" at CES 2026 to separate genuine innovation from marketing hype. While Jensen Huang and others may be walking out with dozens of humanoids, Esteban argues that the focus on the human form is a "horrible idea" driven more by Hollywood lore and investor optics than by actual utility.
In this interview, they discuss:
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Today, AWS announced the general availability of a new, independent cloud for Europe. This new service is based entirely within the EU and operates independently from other AWS locations. Join Constellation Research analyst Holger Mueller in a conversation with Mustafa Isik, Chief Technologist for Sovereign Cloud at AWS, live from AWS re:Invent. They dive deep into the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, why it’s needed, and what it means for data residency, security, and AI in Europe.
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Quantinuum will file for an initial public offering.
The quantum computing company will confidentially file its S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission to offer shares. Honeywell, majority owner of Quantinuum, announced the IPO in a statement.
Details about the offering are sparse. The number of shares, price range and financial disclosures will come at a later date.
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Walmart's head of AI acceleration, product and design riffed on OpenAI ChatGPT and Google Gemini for agentic commerce, transformation, the retailer's role in the AI economy and the future of customer experience and why shoppers will "be doing a lot less scrolling."
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Microsoft is getting ahead of the thing that's most likely to derail AI infrastructure--NIMBY, or not in my back yard.
The company outlined a plan called Community-First AI Infrastructure, which boils down to being a good neighbor and taking steps so AI data centers don't raise electricity prices and deplete resources for locals.
Insight Blog
Have you ever attended an event and just had something stick in your head…for days or even weeks? Months? Since attending Smartsheet ENGAGE in early November 2025, a thought has been rattling around: what matters for work?
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While global leaders gather in Davos to discuss "Cooperation in a Contested World," corporate Boards face a starker reality: your fiduciary duty now extends into the gray zone. This is not the world of traditional risk management. It is a domain where Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) exploit hardware-level vulnerabilities to exfiltrate IP, where fragmented AI policies across 50 U.S.
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Welcome to a new edition of The Board: Distillation Aftershots (*).
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