This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
Dr. Natalie Petouhoff, Constellation Research VP & Principal Analyst, covers Data, Analytics, and the Internet of Things and spells out how to avoid a blind spot. Disrupt or be disrupted.
Japanese conglomerate Softbank has plunked down $32.4 billion for ARM in a deal that takes advantage of a weakened pound while giving it control over the world's leading developer of smartphone chip designs.
Steve Wilson, Constellation Research VP & Principal Analyst provides in-depth views on the state of security and where it should be to keep astute leaders informed. He provides this after highlights on Constellation Insights offered by Chris Kanaracus, Constellation Research Managing Editor.
While most applications of blockchain to date have focused on financial services, IBM is pushing the technology as ideal for supply chain monitoring, particularly to track items with high valure, as the Wall Street Journal reports:
For years, Tor has been the network of choice for Internet users who want to remain anonymous while online. But in recent times, Tor's repuation has taken a hit after reports of severe vulnerabilities in the network.
Doug Henschen, Constellation Research VP & Principal Analyst, shares his deep knowledge of Hadoop, examples of various industry use cases, and covers his latest research report after Chris Kanaracus reveals Constellation Insights' highlights.
The deadline for the 2016 SuperNova Awards is August 8, 2016. In its sixth year, the Constellation SuperNova Awards will recognize nine individuals who demonstrate true leadership in digital business through their application of new and emerging technologies.
How to Calculate the ROI of Social Customer CareThis report provides an overview of how businesses can use social media to their benefit as well as how to calculate the return on investment (ROI) of social customer care. This report includes a framework for measuring ROI, discusses common metrics, and shows how to use some of those metrics in ROI calculations.
IoT as a term defines a ubiquitous state of Internet connectivity, resulting in new forms of data driving interactions that create new competitive Business value. As is usually the case with innovative, transformation technologies, Startups have initially led the way in creating new products, markets and business cases across a wide spectrum of deployments. Now increasing market maturity as allowed a range of global corporations enter the IoT market and make their presence.
Is your Hadoop-based data lake more like a swamp? Here’s a look at two camps of vendors in the Hadoop ecosystem that are bringing order and accessibility to big data. … Continue reading →
Hadoop emerges as the corporate standard for big data management, but success depends on governance, cataloging, and accessibility. This report examines two camps of vendors in the Hadoop ecosystem that are bringing order and accessibility to big data. Read "Democratize Big Data: How to Bring Order and Accessibility to Data Lakes"
Microsoft's Azure Stack, which in essence allows enterprises to run a version of the Azure public cloud in their own on-premises data centers, has been delayed until mid-2017. When it does arrive, it will do so in a much different form than initially announced, and the decision has some would-be customers unhappy.
One of the more surprising bits of news out of Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference this week was the announcement that Facebook will roll out Office 365 to its 13,000 employees. Facebook CIO Tim Campos discussed the rationale in a blog post:
Earlier this week the EU Commission approved the Privacy Shield regulation, that is to replace the now invalid Safe Harbor agreement. With the notice being sent to the EU member states, the agreement is in place.
Buying has changed, but selling hasn't. This is a big problem.According to Michael Fauscette, chief research officer at G2 Crowd, 62% of B2B software buyers and end users will only contact a vendor’s sales team after they already made their purchasing decision. Yikes! How can competitive companies (potentially your business) even compete?Increasing Power of the Customer
Obviously no one plans on implementing a project that will fail. However, statistics show that over the past 20 years a very large percentage of technology projects do fail to result in the business outcomes that they were expected to meet. The real issue is that leading change (implementing new technology, whether it be CX, […]
Microsoft is having its third large customer event of the year in Toronto right now, the Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) and as to be expected there are a number of announcements to be made. Given its ramifications, I picked the announcement of both GE and Microsoft to bring the GE PaaS Predix to the Microsoft IaaS, Azure.
Infor offered up plenty of news, updates and future directions during day one of its Inforum conference in New York this week. While not unexpected, the flow of information nonethless underscores the aggressive growth plans and efforts at internal change Infor has undertaken under the leadership of former Oracle president Charles Phillips, who became CEO in 2010. Here's a look at the key highlights of the day:
Earlier today Unit4 surprised with a ‘summer’ acquisition – wisely timed after end of the European soccer championships – which can always be a major distraction on the ‘old’ continent – of prevero, a German maker of BI and CPM products. (The marketing and aesthetically inclined notice the color match).
Digital Transformation Requires Five Critical Success FactorsOver the past 24 months, Constellation’s clients have experienced closer collaboration between clients and their software vendors and service providers to craft solutions that may not have existed in the past. This level of collaboration reflects the need for not only strategic differentiation, but also the desire to transform business models...