This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
Last week at Constellation Connect Enterprise we awarded our SuperNova awards for the most successful transformations we have seen in the last 12 months. The winner in the "Future of Work" category was Asha Aravindakshan of non profit Ashoka.
Case Study: Eharmony and HootsuiteHow eHarmony Improved Clickthrough Rates and Engagement Using Hootsuite in Social Channels This case study documents eHarmony's social media engagement results using Hootsuite.
In recent weeks there have been announcements from many of the big names of the technology industry of ‘Event Engines’ in association with other parts of their Cloud based product sets. In addition there are a number of startups also offering Event Processing engines with a variety of different benefits that will run on an available Cloud service. Most are specifically announced as part of Internet of Things, IoT, solutions, or sometimes IoT suites, but what’s different from BPM business process engines?
SAP's TechEd event this week in Barcelona placed Fiori, the vendor's strategic user interface paradigm, in the spotlight with the announcement of two new services, Fiori cloud edition and Fiori mobile service.
Microsoft has acquired Israel-based Secure Islands following the purchase of two other Israeli security vendors over the past year or so. Redmond shared the pertinent details in an official blog post on Monday:
Constellation Research principal analyst and bestselling author R "Ray" Wang will teach you how to structure the most favorable cloud software contract for your organization.Details:November 10, 2015 at 11:00 am PST/ 2:00 pm ESTRegister here
Ericsson and Cisco have announced a significant strategic partnership the companies say will generate at least $1 billion in revenue for each party by 2018. Here are the key details from their joint press release:
The Federal Communications Commission, like so many government agencies, is burdened with a long list of legacy IT systems. One that stood out in particular to FCC CIO David Bray was a 15-year-old web page that linked to a paper-based consumer complaints center.
Luminex develops and builds biological testing equipment for the clinical diagnostic and life science industries. Its field services team includes about 50 engineers whose roles are more like solution providers and partners to customers than simply repair technicians.
Background check provider SterlingBackcheck serves more than 20,000 customers around the world, including 25 percent of the Fortune 500, and enjoys a 92 percent client retention rate.
Mercy is one of the largest Catholic health care systems in the U.S., with dozens of hospitals and hundreds of clinics that serve millions of patients each year.
Wine on tap? From a keg? Yes indeed, and Free Flow Wines has developed a flourishing business packaging and distributing wine in this manner. It works with almost 250 wineries, has a presence in 49 of the 50 U.S. states and holds relationships with more than 300 wholesalers. Free Flow pivoted its business model to distribution in 2013, after initially selling its own wine in kegs.
Kaiser Permanente subsidiary KP OnCall is a clinical contact center for telehealth programs, serving more than four million people in California, Hawaii and Georgia.
Tumi, maker of high-end travel and lifestyle products, wanted to make its customer service experience even more special through enriched visuals for online shoppers.
World-renowned business advisor and author Ram Charan spoke for an hour-plus in his opening keynote at Constellation's Connected Enterprise 2015, explaining how companies can go on offense in order to deal with uncertainty, spot upcoming disruptions and ultimately take advantage.
Privacy is emerging as one of the most critical and strategic of our information assets. If we treat privacy as an asset, instead of a burden, businesses can start to cut through this tough topic.
Weather and Location as Context Attributes That Drive Insight Economies, IoT Business Models, and the Future of IBM This news analysis Quark analyzes IBM's acquisition of The Weather Company, focusing on implications for big data and Internet of Things (IoT) business models.