By R "Ray" Wang on May 10, 2019
PSA, Subscription Billing Power Customer Centric ERP Almost 600 customers, partners, and influencers joined the FinancialForce team in Las Vegas. May 7th to 9th, to experience the latest in professional services automation (PSA) and customer-centric ERP. CEO and President, Tod Nielsen, kicked off its user conference at the Aria Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on March 25, 2019
Services Revenue Mix Could Reach 20% By 2020 Photo: @rwang0 On March 25, 2019, Apple held its special event on services at the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, CA to launch and/or revamp 4 key services including: Apple News+. New service adds 300 magazines, the Wall Street Journal and more publications to 875 million iPhone […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on March 26, 2018
Focus On Humanizing AI As organizations begin their journey into artificial intelligence (AI), ethics often enter the design process. While achieving a uniform set of ethics may seem insurmountable, some design points will help facilitate the humanization of artificial intelligence and provide appropriate checks and balances. Constellation has identified design pillars for Level 1 AI. […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on December 20, 2017
Relevance And Value Lead The Inquiries About SAP From the criticism about indirect access to SAP Leonardo, the 2017 SAP landscape has been both gut-wrenching and transformational for clients. Rounded out by conversations at Americas’ SAP Users’ Group (ASUG), SAP Australia User Group (SAUG) and UK and Ireland SAP User Group (UKISUG) events, the top […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on November 6, 2017
Inside the Design Point For All Future AI Driven Apps The quest for mass personalization at scale in an era of artificial intelligence (AI) has led to new models of design for the future of applications. One design point for these new AI driven smart apps is a concept called Infinite Ambient Orchestration. The three […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on September 21, 2017
Six Factors For Powering AI Driven Smart Services Recent client conversations indicate a desire for designing new AI Driven Smart Services. The rush to incorporate artificial intelligence into processes often requires a deeper examination of which services should be AI enabled. Constellation’s latest framework for augmenting humanity encompasses six factors (see Figure 1): Repetitiveness. The […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on August 29, 2017
Top Trends for 2018 Highlight Greater Orchestration In March 2016, Constellation introduced four personas of the modern CMO (see Figure 1). This framework provided CMO’s with a model to think about the role of strategy versus execution and audience development versus audience acquisition. Over the past eight weeks, conversations with demand generation focused […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on April 12, 2016
Marketers Face Massive Challenges In Making The Digital Shift In interviews with over 100 digitally focused, modern CMO’s, shared common challenges in the transformation of their roles and with the support of new digital business models. The top 20 modern marketing challenges (not in order of importance) include: Delivering on a creative to commerce […]
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By Louis Columbus on September 12, 2013
The latest round of tablet, smartphone and PC forecasts from IDC released yesterday in their smart connected device market forecast shows how rapidly tablets and large-screen (5+ inch) smartphones are redefining the market. These forecasts also underscore how the majority of enterprises need to better plan how to get the most out of mobility investments […]
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By Louis Columbus on September 4, 2013
69% of enterprises who have separate budgets for cloud computing are predicting spending increases this year and into 2014. This is one of several key take-aways from a research study published today by TheInfoPro, a service of 451 Research. TheInfoPro Wave 5 Cloud Computing Study is based on research completed in the first six months […]
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