Sluggish economic growth, lagging capital spending, and cautious hiring challenge CFOs managing the organization's financial path. Leaders now demand greater insights from data driven decisions. Analytics and big data are as important as treasury concerns and counter-party risk mitigation. Further, a greater number of CFOs now own the IT function and have CIOs reporting to them. This growing and evolving role of the CFO results in a need to understand the impact of disruptive technologies on business models and financial security. Constellation's analysts and research helps CIOs understand the challenges faced by the IT and line of business divide as well as take a pragmatic approach to technology adoption.
In a live analysis after CCE day one, Constellation analysts addressed the skepticism, fatigue, and genuine uncertainty that many organizations are experiencing behind closed doors.
The technology budget process is well underway at most enterprises and the time frames are getting shorter. Here's a few mileposts to consider as 2026 technology budgets are being sketched.
Oracle's Fusion applications business can't compete in buzz or growth rates compared to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), but you'd be wise to pay attention to the software plan. Yes Virginia, Oracle is still a software company.
Constellation analysts R "Ray" Wang and Liz Miller explore how AI and LLMs are transforming content creation, search authority, and brand visibility.
Salesforce executives said that growth is reaccelerating due to Agentforce deployments and it is projecting a long-term revenue target of $60 billion by fiscal 2030 excluding the Informatica purchase. The big question is whether new pricing plans designed to meet customers where they are will drive the growth.
Snowflake launched Snowflake Cortex AI for Financial Services, a suite designed to connect AI models to financial data, apps and data via model context protocol (MCP).
Here's a look at a few scenes from the data and enterprise AI transformation front where thinking three- to five-years pays off big.
Martin Schneider and Larry Dignan cover Oracle’s co-CEO shakeup, the rise of agentic AI, Thoma Bravo’s $1.4B PROS deal, a Supernova spotlight on Brazilian fintech Jeito, and new research on how AI is reshaping HubSpot and CRM for SMBs.
On May 16, 2025, U.S. District Judge Rita Lin of the Northern District of California granted preliminary certification of the case of Mobley v. Workday as a collective action. Specifically, the suit claims that Workday’s artificial intelligence (AI)-based applicant recommendation system unfairly discriminates against job seekers above the age of 40. The plaintiff claims that he was denied across multiple companies using the same system. The judge’s preliminary certification of the case as a collective action enables qualified individuals across the U.S. to opt in to the lawsuit.
POTUS Cracks Down on H-1B Abuse to Bolster Domestic Jobs On September 19th, 2025, the President issued a proclamation restricting entry of certain non-immigrant workers. In that proclamation:
