By R "Ray" Wang on September 13, 2017
Learn how to be a kickass boss without losing your humanity We are excited to share that Kim Scott, author of Radical Candor, will deliver the keynote address at Connected Enterprise 2017 in Half Moon Bay. Kim will focus on a management strategy so obvious it’s often overlooked: giving guidance. Delivering practical guidance isn’t as easy as it sounds, […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on September 7, 2017
Recognize The Change Agents In Business Transformation I’m excited to announce the launch of the Business Transformation 150. Constellation’s elite list recognizes the top global executives leading innovative business transformation efforts in their organizations. Nominations from peers, industry influencers, technology vendors, and analysts powered the exhaustive, six-month selection process for the BT-150. Analyzing 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 August 17, 2017
About this Constellation ShortList The challenges and requirements around data and application integration are quickly changing. For starters, data increasingly lives and applications increasingly run outside of the four walls of the enterprise as companies embrace cloud-based compute and storage capacity, and as they replace on-premises software with software as a service (SaaS). The mobile, […]
Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged 2017, Apps Strategy, CDO, CEO, CFO, Chief Digital Officer, Chief executive officer, Chief information officer, Chief Information Security Officer, Chief Security Officer, Chief Technology Officer, CIO, co creation, co-innovation, Constellation Research, Constellation ShortList™, CTO, CXO, Dell, Dell Boomi, Digital Transformation, DigitalBiz, digitaltransformation, disruptive, disruptive business models, disruptive technologies, Disruptive technology, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise software, Informatica, integration, Integration Platform As A Service, iPaaS, Jitterbit, MuleSoft, OptionEase, R "Ray" Wang;, Research Summary, rwang0, SnapLogic, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, user strategy
By R "Ray" Wang on August 16, 2017
About this Constellation ShortList In 2008, blockchain technology was introduced to the world from the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto. The paper, titled “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System,” shared how a network would maintain a time stamped immutable record of all cryptocurrency transactions to prevent double spend with no central umpire. The core of blockchain is […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on April 18, 2017
Why Mass Personalization Efforts Fail and Ten Simple Steps to Fix Them Over the past four decades, valiant attempts at personalization have failed due to the lack of relevant and intelligent automation. Moreover, expectations of consumers and prospects have only grown. The result – an expectations gap in personalization that manifests itself in fickler consumers […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged 2017, AI, anticipatory analytics, Apps Strategy, Artificial intelligence, Augmented Humanity, B2B E-commerce, B2C E-commerce, Big Ideas, BigData, Business Transformation, cadence, CDO, CEO, CEP, channels, Chief Customer Officer, Chief Digital Officer, Chief executive officer, Chief information officer, Chief Marketing Officer, Chief Revenue Officer, Chief Sales Officer, Chief Technology Officer, CIO, Cloud, Cloud Computing, CMO, Cognitive Computing, cognitive reckoning, collaboration, commerce, Constellation Research, content, context, CTO, CustExp, Customer Experience, customer experience management, CX, digital, Digital Business, digital commerce, Digital Disruption, digital marketing, Digital Marketing Transformation, Digital Transformation, DigitalBiz, digitaltransformation, disrputing digital, E-Commerce, engagement, Engagement Apps, enterprise, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise resource planning, enterprise software, machine learning, Mass Personalization At Scale, Matrix Commerce, personalization, personalization at scale, R "Ray" Wang;, Research Summary, rwang0, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, value exchange
By R "Ray" Wang on April 13, 2017
One Integrated, Global System For Finance And HR Delivers Business Success This case study examines Ensono’s experience implementing Workday’s HR and Finance enterprise applications in the cloud. Ensono provides infrastructure management services for global companies. Ensono delivers next-generation IT solutions and helps organizations plan for optimized, future infrastructures. By implementing Workday, Ensono was able […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on April 3, 2017
Constellation Research Beefs Up CXO Research Focused On Executive Buy-Side Clients I’m personally excited to announce the arrival of Dion Hinchcliffe to our team. I’ve been a big fan and admirer of him for the past decade. As many of you know, he’s been a key influencer of tech executives for some time on […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on March 10, 2017
Google Cloud Takes Key Steps To Enterprise Class Over 10,000 customers, prospects, partners, Google developers, and employees gathered in San Francisco’s Moscone West Conference Center for Google’s flagship enterprise event. Of note, Alphabet CEO, Eric Schmidt, book ended the event by highlighting the $30 billion capital infrastructure investment into the overall Google Cloud Platform. The […]
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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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