By R "Ray" Wang on November 6, 2013
Market Leaders and Fast Followers Prepare for Digital Business In 2014 Conversations at Constellation’s Connected Enterprise last week validate a larger trend in the market place. The audience of 220+ early adopters with 75% representing line of business and 25% in IT highlighted the convergence of the five forces of consumerization described in 2009 and […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on August 12, 2013
Non-US Based Organizations And Even Some US Organizations Will Not Tolerate Snooping In A Post PRISM World Since the Edward Snowden PRISM revelations, Constellation has received a steady stream of inquiries on cloud strategy. In fact, nervousness runs high among many non-US based companies using services from US based cloud companies across the cloud stack. […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on July 15, 2013
Seeking The Rebels – Pioneers, Early Adopters, and Thought Leaders Since I started Constellation Research in 2010, we have had a single mission – serve the market leaders and fast followers. Yet, finding these market leaders and fast followers was no easy task. These folks shrugged off the legacy analyst firms as they failed to […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on May 6, 2013
The Gartner Market Share Analysis:CRM Software Report Raises Questions On Accuracy of Market Sizing Reports The recent Gartner report “Market Share Analysis: Customer Relationship Management Software, Worldwide, 2012” has generated some controversy among the enterprise software set. The report and other reports such as these, are often used for bragging rights by vendors and for […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on December 3, 2012
Pace of Innovation Exceeds Ability To Consume Rapid innovation, flexible deployment options, and easy consumption models create favorable conditions for the proliferation of disruptive technology. In fact, convergence in the five pillars of enterprise disruption (i.e. social, mobile, cloud, big data, and unified communications), has led to new innovations and opportunities to apply disruptive technologies […]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged #techoptimization, adoption, analytics, Apps Strategy, best practices, Big Data, BigData, Business Analytics, Business Outcomes, business strategy, change, Change Management, Cloud, Cloud Computing, CoIT, CoIT and the New CSuite, Constellation Research, Constellation SuperNova Awards, Consumer Tech, Consumerization of IT, Corporate Digital Divide, Corporate Strategy, Corporate Vision, Corporate Vision And Strategy, customer engagement, Customer Experience, customer experience management, Data to Decisions, Data2Decisions, Digital Divide, digital marketing, Digital Marketing Transformation, disruptive, Disruptive Tech Life Cycle, disruptive technologies, Disruptive technology, enterprise, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise class, enterprise software, future, future of business, future of work, innovation, innovation insights, innovation labs, management strategy, Monday's Musings, next gen cio, next gen CIO's, Next Gen Customer, Next Gen Customer Experience, Next Gen CXP, next gen enterprise, next gen IT leaders, next generation, Next generation apps, organizational strategy, outcome focused, People to People, public cloud, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, SaaS, socbiz, social business, Social Enterprise, Social Media, social technologies, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, technology adoption, technology budgets, Technology Optimization, User Experience, ux |
By R "Ray" Wang on May 21, 2012
Social Media Moves From Ubiquitous Usage To Relevant Rationalization Have we hit a social media plateau? In recent client conversations on usage of social media, the trendsetters appear to be “socialed out”. Most early adopters seem to be overwhelmed with their personal (Facebook, Google+), corporate (Yammer, Jive, Chatter, SharePoint), and professional (LinkedIn) social networks. In […]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged adoption, Apps Strategy, business drivers, business impact, business strategy, business technology, business value, Chief information officer, Chief Marketing Officer, Chief People Officer, CHRO, CIO, CMO, customer engagement, Customer Experience, customer experience management, customer relationship management, disruptive, Disruptive Tech Life Cycle, disruptive technologies, Disruptive technology, engagement, Engagement Apps, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise Business Apps, Enterprise Business Apps Vendors, enterprise class, Facebook, google, GooglePlus, Linked In, linkedin, Monday's Musings, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, socbiz, social analytics, social business, Social Business Software, social business strategist, Social CRM, social customer insights, Social Enterprise, social enterprise apps, social marketing insights, Social Media, social media monitoring, social sales insights, social service, social support, social support insights, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider
By R "Ray" Wang on May 8, 2012
Innovative CIO’s Betting On Disruptive Technologies That Impact Enterprise Business Value In the Four Personas of the Next Gen CIO published March 3, 2012, four personas of the CIO were identified: Chief Infrastructure Officer, Chief Integration Officer, Chief Intelligence Officer, and Chief Innovation Officer (see Figure 1). This research of 79 progressive CIO’s identified the […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on February 28, 2012
Revisiting the Three V’s of Big Data It’s time to revisit that original post from July 4th, 2011 post on the the Three V’s of big data. Here’s the recap: Traditionally, big data describes data that’s too large for existing systems to process. Over the past three years, experts and gurus in the space have […]
Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged analytics, BI, Big Data, BigData, Business Analytics, business intelligence, business technology, business value, Calpont, colummnar database, columnar database, complex event processing, Constellation Research, Consumerization of IT, content, context, Data deluge, data governance, data quality, data streaming, disruptive, disruptive technologies, Disruptive technology, EMC, Emerging Technologies, engagement, Engagement Apps, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise software, enterprise strategy, Exasol, Geo spatial, hardware data points, HP Vertica, IBM Netezza, in-memory database, Kickfire, Kognitio, location based, log data, machine data, Metrics, mobile, Monday's Musings, Netezza, ParAccel, physical data points, process, R "Ray" Wang;, RFID’s, rwang0, search, sentiment, Social, social service, social support, socialtext, socialytics, streaming data, Teradata, Teradata Kickfire, text, Variety, Velocity, Vertica, Virality, Viscosity, Volume, Web
By R "Ray" Wang on February 21, 2012
Original Mission Improves Engagement Through Relevancy Content marketing re-emerges as a hot topic and trend in improving engagement with existing customers and prospects. Marketers can improve the likelihood of engagement through the creation and sharing of relevant information. Typical delivery formats include advertorials, emails, branded websites, white papers, webinars, podcasts, and field marketing events. Content […]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged B2B, B2B E-commerce, B2B Integration, B2B market strategy, B2C, B2C E-commerce, Chief Marketing Officer, Constellation Research, content, content marketing, CRM, customer engagement, Customer Experience, CXP, Monday's Musings, NextGenCXP, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, Uncategorized, vendor strategy
