By R "Ray" Wang on August 17, 2016
Understand The Seven Barriers To Successful Enterprise Mobility Constellation’s annual survey of disruptive technologies among leading CXOs consistently places mobile enablement as a top three priority. In the 2016 survey, more than 58 percent of respondents revalidated that mobile enablement was their number one priority. Unfortunately, most CXOs and their organizations often find mobile solutions […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on August 9, 2016
Key Supply Chain Planning Functionality Bolsters Manufacturing Cloud Offering On August 9, 2016, Manufacturing Cloud pioneer Plex, announced the acquisition of DemandCaster, a cloud based sales forecasting and inventory planning software provider based outside of Chicago, Illinois. Founder Ara Surenian built DemandCaster from his operational consulting experiences in demand planning, supply planning, and sales and […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on July 28, 2016
Oracle Bring Netsuite Back Into The Fold Oracle’s 9.3B acquisition of Netsuite came as no surprise to valley insiders. The rumors have surfaced for weeks. The surprise came as how badly Oracle sought cloud revenue and to bring a friendly partner back into the family. Constellation sees the following for the buy side: Battle […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on June 6, 2016
Salesforce Announces Intent To Acquire Demandware For $2.8B On June 1st, 2016, Salesforce signed a definitive agreement to acquire Burlington, Massachusetts based Demandware for $75.o0 per share or around $2.8 billion in cash. Constellation predicts a $10.01B market for matrix commerce solutions as new digital platforms and network economies emerge. Constellation’s quick merger analysis […]
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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 R "Ray" Wang on April 7, 2016
Inaugural Microsoft Envision Event Seeks To Capture The Hearts and Minds Of Business Leaders An estimated 1800 paid attendees, 4200 partners and employees converged into New Orleans, Louisiana, for Microsoft’s inaugural business decision makers conference. The three day event which also drew 100,000 online viewers, started April 4th, 2016 and concluded April 6th, 2016. The […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on January 11, 2016
Organizations In Search Of Growth Must Consider Macro Forces Burgeoning money supplies in both the US and China have fueled an indefensible growth post Global Financial Crisis. Since 2000, the money supply has tripled from $6000 USD billion to 12288.10 USD billion in November of 2015 (see Figure 1). Since 2005, china’s money supply has […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on October 26, 2015
Customers Must Hurry To Address The Mistakes From Shadow IT SaaS/Cloud Adoption Amidst the hey day of the early years for software as a service (SaaS) and Cloud, many line of business executives signed simple month to month, user based contracts without the burdens of IT and scrutiny of vendor procurement. These edge applications and […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on September 22, 2015
Stop Thinking In Channels And Start Thinking In Settings and Scenes As organizations realize they are no longer selling products and services but delivering on experiences and outcomes, the shift to delivering on a brand promise requires the ability to deliver mass personalization at scale. This is the heart of delivering digital business value. However, […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on August 28, 2015
Join me at the annual Silicon Valley CXO Day on the third and final day of Constellation’s Connected Enterprise. Hear from over 200 business and technology leaders whom will discuss the future of innovation and digital transformation. Register before August 31, 2015 to secure your early bird ticket. Attendees will: Engage with CXO panels from […]
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