This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
ConstellationTV Episode 101 is here! 📺 Co-hosts Liz Miller and Holger Mueller cover #enterprise news updates, including NVIDIA GTC and Adobe Summit announcements around #AI innovation and agentic solutions.
Next, catch a light-hearted Salon50 interview with Constellation's NEW analyst Michael Ni. You'll get an entertaining introduction to Mike, learn his coverage areas, and hear fun facts about everyone involved!
Enterprise leaders should be forgiven for nursing a case of whiplash over the latest large language model (LLM) developments. Almost daily, there's some advance that generates headlines. Instead of chasing every little benchmark, here's a crib sheet of what we're learning from the never-ending game of LLM leapfrog.
Agentic AI is dominating headlines and the enterprise technology sector, but the impact on the IT budget remains to be seen. Agentic AI is promising, but it's going to take more prototypes and proof of ROI to get the budgets rolling.
That's a takeaway from Crawford Del Prete, President of IDC, who appeared on DisrupTV. Del Prete was talking about the volatile IT budget dynamics in 2025 and said:
At #SXSW, Justina Nixon-Saintil, VP & Chief Impact Officer of IBM, shared with R "Ray" Wang how IBM is using #AI to drive real community impact...
✨ 1.6M volunteer hours logged
✨ 16M people skilled (on track to 30M by 2030)
✨ AI-powered solutions for climate stress communities
✨ 30% productivity boost with AI tools like "Ask CSR"
#Technology isn't just about innovation—it's about creating meaningful change. We're proud to see companies like IBM using AI to solve global challenges. 🌍
The personality tests that have been a mainstay of hiring and coaching may finally be ripe for disruption. Not because they suddenly don’t work. They never have been more than 80% valid, so whether you define that as working or not, I leave up to you. Nor because they treat people like loaves of bread, slicing them into traits, which can’t reassemble themselves into the real people we are. Nor even because they are so easy to game.
Constellation founder and analyst R "Ray" Wang talks with IBM's Chief HR Officer Nickle LaMoreaux at the #SXSW IBM Sports Club about #AI agents transforming workplace experiences. Some key points include...
✅ Agents aren't replacing humans, they're augmenting our capabilities
✅ Agents offer personalized support for upskilling, career development, and routine tasks
✅ Agents enable more meaningful human interactions by handling administrative work
When a technology is evolving as fast as artificial intelligence, CFOs and the finance department struggle to crowbar AI infrastructure investments into traditional depreciation models.
Agentic AI is likely to have an unwelcome side effect: Data wars and lawsuits between platforms.
Process mining company Celonis filed a US antitrust complaint against SAP in the US District Court of California, San Francisco Division. The complaint alleges that SAP is restricting Celonis' access to data on its ERP platform in favor of SAP-owned rival Signavio.
Navigating IT Spending Amid Rising Tariffs: Insights from DisrupTV Episode 392
In DisrupTV Episode 392, Constellation Research's R "Ray" Wang and Vala Afshar engaged in a compelling discussion with Crawford Del Prete, President of IDC, and Gurvinder Sahni, Chief Marketing Officer at Persistent Systems, to explore the multifaceted impact of tariffs on IT spending in 2025.
Heather Wilson, Senior Vice President and Chief Communications and Marketing Officer at AccentCare, sits at the intersection of customer experience, employee experience, marketing and talent recruitment.
💡 Adobe's #AI-powered capabilities are transforming digital asset management (DAM) from a simple repository to a strategic tool for driving content operational efficiencies.
Constellation analyst Liz Miller sat down with product marketing expert Marc Angelinovich at #AdobeSummit to discuss the future of DAM. Here are a few ways Adobe's technology changes the game...
Accenture said it may start seeing the effects of a US government funding pause and enterprises growing cautious amid geopolitical and economic volatility.
Speaking on Accenture's second quarter earnings conference call, CEO Julie Sweet laid out the current conditions for the consulting giant. Accenture Federal Services accounted for 8% of the company's global revenue and 16% of Americas revenue in fiscal 2024.
Oracle launched Oracle AI Agent Studio for Fusion Applications in a move designed to enable enterprises to customize AI agents across its platform.
The move, announced at Oracle Cloudworld in London, is the latest in a series of vendor announcements aimed at creating, deploying and orchestrating AI agents.
Softbank said it will acquire chipmaker Ampere Computing in a $6.5 billion all-cash deal. Oracle and Carlyle, Ampere's primary investors, have agreed to sell their stakes.
Carlyle owned 59.65% of Ampere, Oracle owned 32.27% and Arm owned 8.08%. Arm is a subsidiary of Softbank Group and Ampere is a licensee of Arm.
Nvidia's GTC conference kicked off with a long keynote from CEO Jensen Huang, a roadmap extending in 2028 and an integrated AI stack that's hard for rivals to match.
Here's a look at the questions that are lingering after GTC kicked off.
Can Nvidia's cadence keep demand going?
Nvidia's ability to cannibalize itself with an annual cadence and dangle enough value and performance to convince customers to upgrade has been impressive.
Oracle and Nvidia expanded their partnership in a move that will bring Nvidia AI Enterprise, Nvidia Blackwell GB200 NVL72 and agentic AI blueprints to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Constellation Research analyst Holger Mueller said the expanded partnership between the two companies makes sense.
Nvidia launched DGX Spark, formerly Project Digits, and DGX Stations as it aims to bring AI supercomputers to students, developers, researchers and data scientists.
Project Digits made a splash at CES 2025 and now Nvidia is making good on its expansion plans. Nvidia is hoping to enable users to develop and run models locally before uploading them to the cloud for production.
Nvidia launched a family of open reasoning AI models designed for agentic AI as well as new world foundation models.
The company launched the Nvidia Llama Nemotron reasoning models that are designed for on-demand AI reasoning. Nvidia took the Llama models and enhanced them during post training to improve multistep math, coding, reasoning and complex decision-making.
Nvidia launched Blackwell Ultra, which aims to boost training and test time inference, as the GPU giant makes the case that more efficient models such as DeepSeek still require its integrated AI factory stack of hardware and software.
The company also launched Dynamo, an open-source framework that disaggregates the AI reasoning process to optimize compute. For good measure, Nvidia laid out its plans for the next two years.
Adobe laid out its customer experience vision that includes multiple purpose-built AI agents, automated experiences that can adapt on the fly and scaling personalization.
That vision, unveiled at Adobe Summit, is aimed at creating a stack that includes agentic AI, automation and a platform that addresses creative marketing, the content supply chain and a unified customer experience.
Google has acquired Wiz for $32 billion in an all-cash deal that will add to Google Cloud's revenue growth going forward.
The two companies were reportedly in talks about a deal valued at $23 billion a year ago. With the move, Google Cloud is leaning into cybersecurity since it already owns Mandiant.
According to Google, the Wiz purchase will give Google Cloud the ability to combine AI and cloud security across multiple clouds.
Zoom Communications is adding a set of agentic AI capabilities to Zoom AI Companion so it can take actions across its platform for collaboration and customer experience.
With the move, Zoom becomes the latest vendor to put its spin on AI agents. Zoom AI Companion will get the ability to take action and orchestrate and enterprises can create custom agents.
Kore.ai launched a platform to develop, deploy and manage agentic AI applications as a bevy of players race to become the orchestration layer for AI agents.
The Kore.ai Agent Platform aims to enable enterprises to create AI agents with various ranges of autonomy and connect them to applications via more than 100 prebuilt connectors for structured and unstructured data.
With AI agents getting all of the attention, it's worth noting that there are multiple companies leveraging generative AI and off-the-shelf models powered by first party data.
Constellation Research CEO Ray Wang has noted that we're entering an age of data scarcity. All of the data has been used up to train foundational models, and now enterprises will begin to realize they don't have enough data to make AI work for them.