By R "Ray" Wang on January 13, 2017
Hubris Drives Most Tech Firm Failures After observing the technology industry for two decades, one can’t help but identify a recurring theme – the beginning of the end of a technology vendor. While most firms do not endure a mass failure and come back to life like Apple did with Steve Jobs or transform business […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on January 2, 2017
Today’s Leadership Models Fail To Address Responsive And Responsible Leadership The World Economic Forum kicks off January 17th to 20th in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland. As the global theme for the annual meeting, responsive and responsible leadership begins a lofty conversation about the qualities required to bring generations together, create inclusiveness in growth opportunities, and to bridge […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on November 14, 2016
2017 Trends Reflect Faster, Better, Cheaper, Safer, Mantra Of Hyperscale Source: Google As clients make a shift from on-premises traditional data centers to the cloud, mega vendors will rush to build out their hyperscale data centers. Hyperscale data centers use nodes to flex up and flex down on compute power, storage, networking, and memory […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on November 10, 2016
SPECIAL NOTE: This post is intended to help international clients understand the true nature of this historic US election and objectively understand the impact to clients. Clients can set up an inquiry for more details specific to their business scenario. This is part 1 of a two part series covering the Political, Economic, and Societal […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on October 17, 2016
Avoiding The Hype In Trend Cycles Constellation’s AstroChartTM for Technology provides market leaders and fast followers a visual guide to technology trends and their adoption. The vertical access rates adoption from mainstream to early adopters to bleeding edge. The horizontal access estimates the impact on an organization’s business model. from incremental to disruptive to […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on September 26, 2016
Adobe Move To Azure Signals Closer Partnerships Ahead On September 26th, 2016 at the Microsoft Ignite conference in Atlanta, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, and Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella, announced a strategic partnership between the two companies. Constellation sees the announcement from three points of view: Adobe makes Microsoft Azure the preferred cloud platform. Adobe intends […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on September 19, 2016
Successful AI Projects Seek A Spectrum Of Outcomes As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to move from the summer of hype to the fall tech conference news cycle, mass confusion has begun on what AI can be used for. From fears of SKYNET, to hopes for the computer in StarTrek and Jarvis in Iron Man, the value […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on August 25, 2016
The Rush To Artificial Intelligence Will Enable Augmented Humanity While market leaders and fast followers have not yet achieved mass personalization, the next rush is focused on investments in artificial intelligence (see Figure 1). Searching for a competitive advantage and fearful of disruption, board rooms and CXO’s have rushed to artificial intelligence as the next […]
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Principal Analyst, Founder, Chairman at Constellation Research, best selling author of several books with
Harvard Business Review Press. Previously Founding Partner at Altimeter Group, VP at Forrester Research, and held Exce. positions at Oracle, PeopleSoft, Deloitte, Ernst & Young. Regular contributor to Harvard Business Review and well quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Bloomberg, CNBC TV, Reuters, IDG News Service. Ray has thrice won the prestigious Institute of Industry Analyst Relations (IIAR) Analyst of the Year Award. 
