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August 19, 2026

Constellation ShortList™ Managed Detection and Response (MDR)

About This ShortListManaged Detection and Response (MDR) services provide organizations with continuous threat monitoring, investigation, and response delivered as an outsourced or co-managed security operations capability. As security environments become more distributed across endpoints, cloud workloads, identity sys...
Chirag Mehta
Chirag Mehta
Vice President and Principal Analyst
Research
August 19, 2026

Constellation ShortList™ Extended Detection and Response Platforms (XDR)

About This ShortListExtended Detection and Response (XDR) platforms are designed to improve security operations by correlating detection, investigation, and response across multiple security domains, including endpoint, network, identity, cloud, and email. As enterprise environments grow more distributed and attackers ...
Chirag Mehta
Chirag Mehta
Vice President and Principal Analyst
Research
August 19, 2026

Constellation ShortList™ Multicloud Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms

About This Constellation ShortList™Multicloud Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms enable enterprises to deliver governed analytics and business intelligence across two or more major public cloud environments. These platforms help organizations analyze data where it lives, reduce cloud and vendor lock-in, limi...
Michael Ni
Michael Ni
Vice President and Principal Analyst
Research
August 19, 2026

Constellation ShortList™ Security Service Edge (SSE)

About This ShortListIn today’s hybrid and cloud-first world, traditional security approaches struggle to keep pace with the ever-expanding attack surface. Users access data and applications from anywhere, on any device, blurring the lines of traditional network perimeters. This creates vulnerabilities that attackers ca...
Chirag Mehta
Chirag Mehta
Vice President and Principal Analyst
Research
August 19, 2026

Constellation ShortList™ Access Management

About This ShortListAccess Management governs how employees, partners, customers, service accounts and AI agents gain, use and retain access to applications, data and infrastructure. The category has moved beyond sign-on and static entitlement management. Organizations now need phishing-resistant authentication, adapti...
Chirag Mehta
Chirag Mehta
Vice President and Principal Analyst
Research
August 19, 2026

Constellation ShortList™ Security Access Service Edge (SASE)

About This ShortListThe digital landscape has undergone a seismic shift. Cloud adoption is skyrocketing, users access resources from anywhere, and traditional security perimeters are crumbling. This creates a complex and vulnerable ecosystem where legacy solutions struggle to keep pace. Siloed on-premises security solu...
Chirag Mehta
Chirag Mehta
Vice President and Principal Analyst
Research
August 19, 2026

Constellation ShortList™ IT Strategy Platforms

About This Constellation ShortList™IT Strategy Platforms are suites of capabilities that transcend traditional IT planning. These platforms empower businesses to closely align their IT objectives with overarching organizational strategies. They provide robust analytics, insightful dashboards, and road-mapping tools tha...
Holger Mueller
Holger Mueller
Vice President and Principal Analyst
Research
August 19, 2026

Constellation ShortList™ Distributed Autonomous Organization (DAO) Platforms

About This Constellation ShortList™Distributed autonomous organizations (DAOs) are member-owned communities without centralized leadership. A DAO's financial records and rules of operation are usually maintained on a blockchain with many of their rules embodied in code, typically smart contracts. DAOs have grown in pop...
Holger Mueller
Holger Mueller
Vice President and Principal Analyst
Research
August 19, 2026

Constellation ShortList™ North American Talent Acquisition

About this Constellation ShortList™The war for talent is being waged harder than ever, with the U.S. economy growing at a faster rate than expected. Midwest towns offer relocation credits to attract workers. Sign-on bonuses are on the rise. This environment requires talent acquisition software for enterprises to be mor...
Holger Mueller
Holger Mueller
Vice President and Principal Analyst
Research
August 19, 2026

Constellation ShortList™ Performance Management Platforms

About This Constellation ShortList™Performance management platforms tools are digital solutions that help apply the popular goal-setting framework for defining and tracking objectives as well as their outcomes. Performance management is one of the five key pillars of talent management (next to talent acquisition, onboa...
Holger Mueller
Holger Mueller
Vice President and Principal Analyst
Research
August 19, 2026

Constellation ShortList™ Governed Self-Service AI and Machine Learning

About This Constellation ShortList™As enterprises move from AI experimentation to operational decision automation, business and data teams need platforms that make AI and machine learning easier to build, deploy, monitor, and improve without creating unmanaged risk. The rise of generative AI interfaces expands the pote...
Michael Ni
Michael Ni
Vice President and Principal Analyst
Research
August 19, 2026

Constellation ShortList™ Global HCM Suites

About this Constellation ShortListA global human capital management (HCM) suite is a collection of key HCM functionality covered by a single vendor across multiple countries. Regarding functionality, Constellation looks for strong HR core and payroll capabilities as the main areas of functional necessity, but vendors e...
Holger Mueller
Holger Mueller
Vice President and Principal Analyst
Research
August 19, 2026

Constellation ShortList™ Payroll for North American SMBs

About this Constellation ShortList™Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) face compliance challenges every day. Often, they have limited finance and HR teams who struggle keeping up with a dynamically growing enterprise. It's important for these organizations to have a reliable partner to process payroll.To be a play...
Holger Mueller
Holger Mueller
Vice President and Principal Analyst
Research
August 19, 2026

Constellation ShortList™ B2C Marketing Automation for the Enterprise

About This Constellation ShortList™Engaging with consumers in the fast-moving digital-first world demands new experience strategies based more on the consumer and less on engagement channels. Today’s marketer is looking for modern automation engines to deliver on an age-old marketing promise: delivering the right messa...
Liz Miller
Liz Miller
Vice President & Principal Analyst
Research
August 19, 2026

Constellation ShortList™ Digital Asset Management (DAM) for High Volume Commerce

About This Constellation ShortList™Digital commerce is filled with immersive, highly visual, dynamically interactive, rapidly available, personalized experiences that capture attention and deliver an immediate vision of how a specific product can fit into a customer’s life. From innovations in showrooming to fully inte...
Liz Miller
Liz Miller
Vice President & Principal Analyst
Research
August 19, 2026

Constellation ShortList™ B2C Marketing Automation for Small to Midsize Business

About This Constellation ShortList™The modern business-to-consumer (B2C) relationship is often defined by moments—of creativity, of personalization and of engagement. For the small to midsize (SMB) organization, pulling off these highly personalized engagements can feel impossible without the budgets and the resources ...
Liz Miller
Liz Miller
Vice President & Principal Analyst
Research
August 19, 2026

Constellation ShortList™ Public Cloud Transformation Services: Global

About This Constellation ShortList™Public cloud transformational services vendors represent the global managed service providers and system integrators who are helping clients deliver on business transformation, starting with the public cloud.These vendors are helping clients bring together complex cloud migrations tha...
Holger Mueller
Holger Mueller
Vice President and Principal Analyst
R "Ray" Wang
R "Ray" Wang
Principal Analyst and Founder
Research
August 19, 2026

Constellation ShortList™ Metaverse Development Platforms

About This Constellation ShortList™Much hype has been made about the metaverse. However, very few organizations have fully grasped the impact the metaverse will have on experiences and engagement for both the consumer world and the enterprise. More than just gaming worlds or hardware devices, the metaverse economy brin...
Holger Mueller
Holger Mueller
Vice President and Principal Analyst
R "Ray" Wang
R "Ray" Wang
Principal Analyst and Founder
Research
August 19, 2026

Constellation ShortList™ Virtual Events: Webcasts and Meetings

About This Constellation ShortList™Webinars have entered the AI age. From content creation, avatar-based event moderation, to post event summarization and content reporposing, the live event is just one piece of the webinar puzzle thanks to AI. Webinars have evolved, shifting in length, interactivity and channel. Centr...
Liz Miller
Liz Miller
Vice President & Principal Analyst
Research
August 19, 2026

Constellation ShortList™ Product Information Management (PIM)

About This Constellation ShortList™If customer data represents the source of customer truth for an organization, and solutions like customer relationship management (CRM) and customer data platforms (CDP) collect, manage and institutionalize that truth, then a product information management (PIM) system is the source o...
Liz Miller
Liz Miller
Vice President & Principal Analyst
Research
August 19, 2026

Constellation ShortList™ Campaign to Commerce: All-In-One-Commerce Clouds

About This Constellation ShortList™Matrix Commerce analyzes the disruptive pressures that influence the commerce paradigm. Today, commerce faces rapidly changing business models and new payment options that are often misunderstood and poorly integrated. Analysis based on Matrix Commerce provides the understanding neces...
R "Ray" Wang
R "Ray" Wang
Principal Analyst and Founder
Research
August 19, 2026

Constellation ShortList™ Spatial Computing Platforms

About This Constellation ShortList™Spatial computing platforms provide software development kits (SDK) for developers of interactive experiences that take real-world objects and enhance them with digital experiences such as visual, haptic, auditory, olfactory and somatosensory. These systems deliver a real-time interac...
R "Ray" Wang
R "Ray" Wang
Principal Analyst and Founder
Research
August 19, 2026

Constellation ShortList™ Blockchain Technology Platforms

About this Constellation ShortListBlockchain technology platforms bring key components required to enable new business models. Constellation estimates that the overall blockchain technology platform market will reach $68.6 billion by end of 2031.The core of blockchain is the algorithm used by the pool of participants t...
R "Ray" Wang
R "Ray" Wang
Principal Analyst and Founder
Research
August 19, 2026

Constellation ShortList™ Digital Transformation Services (DTX): Global

About This Constellation ShortList™Digital transformation services (DTX) firms work with clients to reimagine new business models, co-innovate and co-create future solutions, and potentially operate these solutions at scale if needed. Firms can be a systems integrator (SI) or DTX provider or agency bringing together so...
R "Ray" Wang
R "Ray" Wang
Principal Analyst and Founder
Research
August 19, 2026

Constellation ShortList™ Healthcare IT Security

About this Constellation ShortList™The next few years will be exciting and innovative for health IT. As organizations embark on a journey to transform into digital enterprises, IT infrastructure will be one of the foundational areas of focus. Constellation sees this market reaching $66.8 B by 2031.The journey toward a ...
R "Ray" Wang
R "Ray" Wang
Principal Analyst and Founder
Research
August 19, 2026

Constellation ShortList™ Compensation Management

About this Constellation ShortList™Because employee cost is the top cost category in almost all industries, enterprises need to raise the level of how they measure, plan and execute compensation management. The sad reality is that in many organizations, compensation decisions are made by people leaders using Microsoft ...
Holger Mueller
Holger Mueller
Vice President and Principal Analyst
Research
August 19, 2026

Constellation ShortList™ Healthcare Clinical Communication

About this Constellation ShortList™With many medical institutions still communicating through pagers and outdated programs, clinical communication technology aims to transform the patient experience and provide enhanced processes for the entire network. Constellation forecasts a $5.9B market by 2031 with a CAGR of...
R "Ray" Wang
R "Ray" Wang
Principal Analyst and Founder
Research
August 19, 2026

Constellation ShortList™ Travel Management Platforms

About This Constellation ShortList™Travel management platforms enable enterprises to not only orchestrate trips but also reduce the time required to book a trip while managing the expenses for employees. Constellation forecasts a market of $14.7 billion for travel management platforms by 2031, up from $ 4.8 billion in ...
R "Ray" Wang
R "Ray" Wang
Principal Analyst and Founder
Research
August 19, 2026

Constellation ShortList™ Marketing Analytics Solutions

About This Constellation ShortList™The call for the chief marketing officer to serve as the growth driver and orchestrator for the modern enterprise has amplified the need for marketing analytics tools to quickly evolve from campaign performance trackers into more robust business intelligence and decisioning tools. But...
Liz Miller
Liz Miller
Vice President & Principal Analyst
Research
August 19, 2026

Constellation ShortList™ Content Management System (CMS) – Hybrid

About This Constellation ShortList™Hybrid content management systems offer the opportunity to develop the back-end API-first content stores that remain detached from defined presentation layers, while also offering additional tools and templates are available to aid nontechnical teams to create experiences autonomously...
Liz Miller
Liz Miller
Vice President & Principal Analyst
Research
August 19, 2026

Constellation ShortList™ AI Services: Global

About this Constellation ShortListArtificial intelligence (AI) services firms work with clients to design, build, train, manage, and operate AI capabilities for organizations. These firms can be systems integrators (SIs), AI services providers, or agencies bringing solutions together to provide an overall digital trans...
R "Ray" Wang
R "Ray" Wang
Principal Analyst and Founder
Research
August 19, 2026

Constellation ShortList™ Customer Experience (CX) Operations Services: Global

Customer experience (CX) operations services span everything from shaping organizational models and defining required technology capabilities to implementing CX technologies and, in some cases, providing technology and operations outsourcing. These services companies help companies implement the infrastructure and oper...
R "Ray" Wang
R "Ray" Wang
Principal Analyst and Founder
Liz Miller
Liz Miller
Vice President & Principal Analyst
Why Google's purchase of Spirit Airlines data matters
Data to Decisions
August 19, 2026

Why Google's purchase of Spirit Airlines data matters

Google's acquisition of Spirit Airlines data for $10 million could be a punchline or a template for future deals for companies looking to develop industry specific models. Bet on the latter. ...
Research
August 17, 2026

Oracle APEX AI Application Generator Powers AI AppDev

Oracle has continuously expanded the capabilities of its Application Express (APEX) low-code/no-code platform that sits natively inside the Oracle AI Database. This did not stop in the AI era, and on August 12, Oracle announced Oracle APEX AI Application Generator in a blog post by Mike Hichwa, Oracle’s senior vice pre...
Holger Mueller
Holger Mueller
Vice President and Principal Analyst
Why AI infrastructure folks are talking so much about applications
Innovation & Product-led Growth
August 16, 2026

Why AI infrastructure folks are talking so much about applications

AI infrastructure providers are increasingly talking about applications that rely on agents and data to continually improve and drive returns. Why? Enterprises, currently the thin part of the demand barbell, are key to justifying the capital expenditures in the years ahead. ...
The most important LLM benchmark today: Price
Data to Decisions
August 13, 2026

The most important LLM benchmark today: Price

The most valuable benchmark for large language models—open and proprietary—is quickly becoming price. Google launched Gemini 3.7 Flash, which is billed as its most intelligent workforce model, and included a promotional price that’ll run to January 1, 2027. ...
Dynatrace acquires Arize, accelerates AI observability efforts
Data to Decisions
August 13, 2026

Dynatrace acquires Arize, accelerates AI observability efforts

Dynatrace acquired Arize, which specializes in AI observability and the AI development lifecycle, in a deal worth $915 million. The acquisition is just the latest data point indicating Dynatrace has momentum....
IBM, OpenAI forge AI consulting, delivery pact
Data to Decisions
August 13, 2026

IBM, OpenAI forge AI consulting, delivery pact

IBM and OpenAI said they have formed a strategic partnership that embeds OpenAI's frontier models and other products with IBM Consulting's capabilities. ...
Nebius’ Q2 revenue boom: What you need to know
Data to Decisions
August 12, 2026

Nebius’ Q2 revenue boom: What you need to know

Nebius delivered second quarter revenue growth of 454% and said it could sell all of its capacity if it wanted to. But Nebius said it is landing higher prices by reserving AI infrastructure and auctioning it off to the highest bidder....