This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
Conga said it will acquire the B2B business of PROS Holdings, which is being acquired by Thoma Bravo. Congo is also a Thoma Bravo portfolio company.
Thoma Bravo said last month it will buy PROS for $1.4 billion.
UiPath expanded its UiPath Platform, which is aimed at agentic AI automation and orchestration, and lined up a bevy of partners including OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia and Snowflake as it solidified its integration strategy.
The moves by UiPath highlight how AI agents, process automation and automation are starting to converge.
Sunil Karkera, Founder Soul of the Machine, is leveraging agentic AI to outpace much larger companies. "We solve boring problems and it's exciting," said Karkera.
Soul of the Machine has migrated SAP in 90 days and implemented a voice-based LLM augmented factory and production planning system in days. Karkera's services are completely agentic based with engineers doing the work up front.
Peter Danenberg is a senior software engineer at Google's DeepMind, leads rapid prototyping for Gemini and has to think through more than a few big ideas.
Speaking at Constellation Research's AI Forum, Danenberg spoke with R "Ray" Wang about emerging trends in AI and looming questions ahead. Here's a look at the high level topics in a space that evolves almost hourly.
The IT department is where agentic AI goes to die--or at least never make it out of proof of concept. Agentic AI needs to be driven by outcomes, returns and benefits to the business instead of technology.
That's a big takeaway from Boomi's Chris Hallenbeck, SVP and GM of AI & Platform
When Abrigo, which provides compliance, credit risk, and lending software for financial institutions, launched a series of new capabilities to its Abrigo AI suite in September this year, the effort was more than a product launch. The additions were the payoff in product velocity resulting from a broader cloud and data transformation.
ServiceNow launched AI Experience (AIx), a multimodal interface that will serve as a user interface for the company's platform. Enterprise users will be able to access ServiceNow apps, data and workflows with AI agents.
The company said AIx will be integrated throughout ServiceNow's platform. AIx will also be tailored to each user's permissions for employees, knowledge workers and developers.
Large language model providers are rapidly building in agentic AI tools to handle tasks autonomously over time. Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.5, OpenAI is open sourcing Agentic Commerce Protocol to give ChatGPT a commerce boost and Microsoft sees Office as a way to vibe work.
Add it up and the message from LLM giants is clear: Here are our foundational models at your service.
Let's take some LLM and AI agent inventory.
People ask me what virtues great leaders have. Like I’m hoarding secret scrolls of wisdom. Maybe it’s the AI in my life. Maybe it’s my habit of going beyond the obvious. Either way, I try not to sound snarky when I say, “All of them, of course.”
The Greeks gave us prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance. I’m more interested in what happens when you don’t have them.
Fortitude is the starter virtue. No guts, no leadership. If you can’t take the first step, you’re not leading. You’re loitering.
Two distinct AI markets have emerged. There's the AI infrastructure, superintelligence chase and funding fest with projections that border on fictional. And then there's enterprise AI that revolves around process, automation, specific use cases and compute thatâll be spread around.
AI ROI, Employee Well-Being, and What Really Drives Growth | DisrupTV Ep. 412
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Anthropic named Chris Ciauri, a Google Cloud and Salesforce alum, managing director of its international business as the company continues to scale its operations.
The news comes after Anthropic raised $13 billion in venture funding and named Paul Smith chief commercial officer. Anthropic has emerged as the enterprise LLM play and is following the vertical and use case playbook.
Here's why Cognizant was named to Constellation's 2025 Digital Transformation Services (DTX) ShortList 🏅
Cognizant is driving AI-powered transformation, innovation, and thought leadership. With over 50 publications from the Cognizant AI Lab and 75+ patents, Cognizant is shaping the future of business and technology. Hear R "Ray" Wang’s perspective on Cognizant as an industry leader and explore the ShortList to see who is leading digital transformation and AI trends.
Cisco announced prototype quantum networking software that aims to network quantum computers together more quickly.
The quantum networking software is part of Cisco's plan to create a unified quantum networking software stack. In some ways, Cisco is also validating IonQ's big push into quantum networking via a series of acquisitions.
Is your organization’s legacy “plumbing” holding back innovation and growth? Constellation founder R "Ray" Wang discusses why outdated systems are no longer just an IT problem—they’re a business risk. From hard-coded pricing to fragmented spreadsheets, the pain is real across every department.
Forward-thinking CXOs lead the way by replacing legacy infrastructure with modern platforms that support agility, scalability, and business transformation. It’s time to move beyond duct-taped solutions.
Watch to learn how you can empower your teams to focus on what’s next.
In ConstellationTV episode 114, co-hosts Martin Schneider and Larry Dignan break down the latest enterprise technology news -- Oracle’s new co-CEO structure, the rise of #agenticAI in #enterprise apps, and Thoma Bravo’s $1.4B acquisition of PROS.
Next, Larry sits down with Alex Franco, a Supernova Award finalist and Chief Risk & Tech Officer at Jeito, to discuss how the Brazilian #fintech is utilizing AI and alternative data to expand credit access.
What if the border crisis isn't a crisis at all? What if it’s a predictive modeling problem?
The current state of human logistics is a massive, unstructured data set. The inputs are complex human variables: skills, desires, and social networks. The output is chaos, because we're not running a proper algorithm. We have people with unmet needs and a market with insatiable demand for human capital, yet the two rarely connect.
OpenAI launched a new benchmark that grades large language models (LLMs) on real-world work tasks and enterprises need to take note as they ponder AI agents.
OpenAI unveiled GDPval, a system that grades LLMs on tasks that humans currently do. Yes, we know (since vendors tell us repeatedly) that AI is collaborative with humans and not a replacement. But if you were to look to AI as a human labor replacement, OpenAI's GDPval is likely to be handy.
Accenture CEO Julie Sweet said the company is seeing an inflection point with companies adopting artificial intelligence enterprise-wide and scaling use cases.
Speaking on the company's fourth quarter earnings call, Sweet said:
Watch this exclusive interview with Octavian Tanase, Chief Product Officer at Hitachi Vantara, and Larry Dignan, Editor in Chief of Constellation Research, as they explore the future of AI in the enterprise.
Discover how Hitachi Vantara is integrating autonomous AI, leveraging edge computing, and forming strategic partnerships to deliver comprehensive, sustainable solutions for data-driven businesses. Don’t miss these insights on the evolving AI landscape and what’s next for enterprise technology.
Databricks said OpenAI's foundational models will be available in the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and Agent Bricks natively in a partnership worth $100 million.
The deal highlights how OpenAI is expanding the distribution for its ChatGPT family of models beyond Microsoft and direct access.
The European Commission has formally opened an investigation of SAP and its maintenance and support practices for on-premises deployments in Europe.
In a statement, the EC said it has started an investigation into whether SAP "may have distorted competition in the aftermarket for maintenance and support services" for its on-premises ERP applications.
Hitachi Vantara is embedding AI agents throughout its storage systems, seeing customers embrace more hybrid cloud and on-premise AI architectures and betting on AI at the edge and sovereign AI as growth markets.