This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
As the market leader in enterprise application software, SAP is at the center of today’s business and technology revolution. SAP helps you streamline your processes, giving you the ability to use real-time data to predict customer trends across your entire business. SAP is committed to helping every customer become a best-run business.
ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) makes the world work better for everyone. Our cloud‑based platform and solutions help digitize and unify organizations so that they can find smarter, faster, better ways to make work flow. So employees and customers can be more connected, more innovative, and more agile. And we can all create the future we imagine. The world works with ServiceNowTM. For more information, visit: www.servicenow.com.
We understand the business challenges our global customers face and the power of analytics to solve those challenges, from decades of experience serving the world’s largest companies and organizations. Our success is rooted in our proven capabilities that span technology, people, and methodologies.
We understand the business challenges our global customers face and the power of analytics to solve those challenges, from decades of experience serving the world’s largest companies and organizations. Our success is rooted in our proven capabilities that span technology, people, and methodologies.
At Ultimate Software, we have always put our people first. This idea permeates our culture to its core. For over 25 years, it has driven us to create the innovative products and services we offer today. As a result, we enable our customers to put their people first—helping them build the people-centric environments they need to grow and meet their business goals.
The Aerospike Real-time Data Platform enables organizations to act instantly across billions of transactions while reducing server footprint by up to 80 percent. The Aerospike multi-cloud platform powers real-time applications with predictable sub-millisecond performance up to petabyte scale with five-nines uptime with globally distributed, strongly consistent data.
Google Cloud provides organizations with leading infrastructure, platform capabilities and industry solutions. We deliver enterprise-grade cloud solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology to help companies operate more efficiently and adapt to changing needs, giving customers a foundation for the future. Customers in more than 150 countries turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to solve their most critical business problems.
IBM is a leading cloud platform and cognitive solutions company. Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are the largest technology and consulting employer in the world, with more than 380,000 employees serving clients in 170 countries. With Watson, the AI platform for business, powered by data, we are building industry-based solutions to real-world problems. For more than seven decades, IBM Research has defined the future of information technology with more than 3,000 researchers in 12 labs located across six continents. For more information, visit www.ibm.com.
Enterprises will need to shift from Legacy, Departmental, Admin centric operations model to Employee Centric Collaborative Organizational models. Similarly, Enterprises need to move into truly digital platforms that simplify operations, enhance Employee engagement and connect, create boundary-less and extendable frameworks, rather than continue to tweak legacy framework tools. Employee Experts provides Employee Centric Digital SaaS platform to Enterprises to manage all of People Operations. It is a Singular, Simple and Always-On connect between Enterprise and Employees.
FinancialForce is the leading cloud ERP and PSA solution for the new services economy. The #1 ERP native to the Salesforce platform, FinancialForce unifies data across the enterprise in real-time, enabling companies to rapidly evolve their business models with customers at the center. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, FinancialForce is backed by Salesforce Ventures, Technology Crossover Ventures, Advent International, and UNIT4
Google’s mission is to organize the world‘s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Since our founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. From offering search in a single language we now offer dozens of products and services—including various forms of advertising and web applications for all kinds of tasks—in scores of languages. And starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have thousands of employees and offices around the world. A lot has changed since the first Google search engine appeared.
SAP Ariba is how companies connect to get business done. On the Ariba Network, buyers and suppliers from more than 3.4 million companies and 190 countries discover new opportunities, collaborate on transactions and grow their relationships. Buyers can manage the entire purchasing process, while controlling spending, finding new sources of savings and building a healthy supply chain. And suppliers can connect with profitable customers and efficiently scale existing relationships – simplifying sales cycles and improving cash control along the way.
As the pioneer, innovator and market leader in Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Blue Prism delivers the world’s most successful Digital Workforce. The company’s intelligent digital workers provide business leaders with new operational capacity and intelligent skills to automate mission critical business processes, while meeting the requirements of the most demanding IT environments, where security, compliance and scalability are paramount.
Capgemini is at the forefront of innovation to address the entire breadth of clients’ opportunities in the evolving world of cloud, digital and platforms. Serving the most demanding companies, Capgemini is able to meet their evolving expectations and support their digital transformation through a range of innovate products and services, all while driving their overall competitiveness. Capgemini offers a wide spectrum of expertise to its clients. Intimate knowledge of their industry, current challenges and future positioning is a hallmark of this strength.
We're passionate about how business models can be transformed by disruptive technology. Our goal is to help our clients realize the Art of the Possible. We achieve this by researching the technologies and business models that not only disrupt established players, but also create transformational innovation. We share our research insights with business leaders seeking more than just a rubber stamped approval or rear mirror confirmation by traditional legacy analyst firms.
IBM is a leading global hybrid cloud and AI, and business services provider. We help clients in more than 175 countries capitalize on insights from their data, streamline business processes, reduce costs and gain the competitive edge in their industries. Nearly 3,000 government and corporate entities in critical infrastructure areas such as financial services, telecommunications and healthcare rely on IBM's hybrid cloud platform and Red Hat OpenShift to affect their digital transformations quickly, efficiently and securely.
The enterprise AI market appears to be embracing a little nuance and CxOs would be wise to avoid banter about artificial general intelligence and think about systems that drive returns in the real world. Those returns will likely be generated with fewer workers.
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In this episode of DisrupTV, co-hosts R “Ray” Wang, CEO of Constellation Research and best-selling author of Disrupting Digital Business, and Vala Afshar, Chief Digital Evangelist at Salesforce, sit down with two powerful voices reshaping the conversation around leadership and innovation:
Public sector technology executives laid out a series of takeaways and best practices at the Google Public Sector Summit in Washington, D.C., in October. The takeaways ranged from focusing on your data foundation to use cases for artificial intelligence (AI) agents and the importance of training and human-in-the-loop processes.
Hereâs a tour of what seven public sector technology leaders had to say (PDF).
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Marc shared how DocuSign leverages Salesforce integration, adopted Certinia to deliver consistent customer outcomes, and now uses #AI to proactively enhance #CX. He emphasized the importance of a customer-centric mindset and the balance between automation and the human touch.