This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
Tableau unveils high-scale Hyper engine, previews self-service data-prep and ‘smart’ capabilities. Here’s the cloud agenda for next year's event.
Tableau Software is the Apple of the analytics market, with a huge fan base and enthusiastic customers who are willing to stand in long lines for a glimpse at what’s next. Last week’s Tableau Conference in Las Vegas proved that once again with record attendance of more than 14,000.
SCOTUS on privacy case: The Supreme Court of the United States has agreed to review a landmark 2016 decision that barred the federal government from obtaining personal emails stored on a Microsoft server in Ireland.
On Oct 11th and 12th Box held their annual BoxWorks conference in San Francisco. There were several announcements for users, developers and administrations, but the most significant for my research area of Personal Productivity, Team Collaboration and the Future of Work was the introduction of Box Skills, a set of artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities which can enhance the content stored in Box by automatically adding additional metadata such as tags, sentiment, transcriptions and more.
We had the opportunity to attend the North American edition of the Workday user conference, held in Chicago from October 9th till12th 2017 at McCormick place. The event was very well attended (almost 9k attendees) across customers, prospects, partners and influencers.
Workday Rising 2017 recap: Myself and colleage Holger Mueller were guests of Workday this week for its annual Rising conference and had the opportunity to speak with a host of customers and company executives, including co-CEO Aneel Bhusri. Here are some of the key findings that arose during those conversations.
There are just twelve days until Constellation's Connected Enterprise! We can't wait to see you in Half Moon Bay. Here you’ll find everything you need to prep for Connected Enterprise.
The FIDO Alliance is the most important Identity Management (IdM) consortium in an industry that has seen numerous associations and standardization efforts over many years.
Many people like to shop local retailers versus going to big box stores. Do you think we’ll see similar stands for supporting stores that remain focused on human staff versus robots?
You’ve probably heard me talk about how I still love the human interactions when going to the bank, but I also use ATMs.
What’s the line in the sand? Cost vs convenience? Consistency vs conversation?
ATM vs pizza robot?
In May this year Salesforce introduced its concept of the Five Transformations of Enterprise Software, which seemed a rational organization of Salesforce product sets. Those charged with finding the deployment paths, and starting projects, leading to Enterprise Transformation for Digital Business should see the potential in the Five Transformations to delivering a much-needed coherent approach.
There are just four weeks until Constellation's Connected Enterprise! Get ready for the innovation summit for the enterprise. This is where the most innovative leaders, tech revolutionaries, and futurists gather to break paradigms and generate ideas that will become the big innovations in enterprise tech in 2018 and beyond.
GE picks Amazon Web Services as 'preferred' cloud provider: An interesting press release came over the wire this week from Amazon Web Services, stating that GE has chosen it as its "preferred" cloud provider. One might think that label was already stuck, given that GE has been migrating thousands of its internal IT applications to AWS since 2014.
We had the opportunity to attend Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle’s yearly mega user conference, held in San Francisco from October 1st till 5th 2017, at Moscone Center. Moscone is under construction, so it was tough to gauge attendance, but it seemed to be a tad down year over year. Massive press, analyst and influencer presence, as usual.
Yesterday I celebrated my 6th anniversary at Constellation Research. I want to thank Ray Wang and my colleagues for all their support and how much I learn from them everyday. Also, to our amazing clients, you're why I do this. Since I began here my goal has been simple: to provide pragmatic advice about what's coming next for the way individuals and teams get work done. I'm not a cheerleader for change just for the sake of it, nor do I criticize new ideas just because they seem a little out there.
Manufacturing-based IoT connections grew 84% between 2016 and 2017, followed by energy & utilities (41%). 73% of executives are either researching or currently launching IoT projects. The IoT platform market is expected to grow 35% per year to $1.16B by 2020. B2B uses can generate nearly 70% of the potential value enabled by IoT. These […]
Oracle ties up with Slack: While Oracle has made a lot of news during its massive OpenWorld conference this week, one item in particular stands out. The company recently became a customer of red-hot workplace messaging startup Slack, and now the pair have inked a product integration agreement, as Reuters reports:
Business is being disrupted, your Enterprise must transform! Variations of this message appear widely throughout the media, from business press, through general interest publications and into social media and events. The message that change is underway has been received, and noted. Boards and senior management are thirsty for more clarity as to the extent and speed of the ‘transformation’ and want more clarity to provide a bench mark for their own changes.