Doug Henschen
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Constellation ShortList™ Master Data Management
This Constellation ShortList™ presents Master Data Management offerings relevant to early adopters pursuing digital transformation. Offerings included in this document meet the threshold criteria for this category as determined by Constellation Research. → Read More
Why Data Warehouses Are Ground Zero for Cloud Cost Optimization
Executive Summary With the current economic uncertainty, spending on public cloud infrastructure and cloud services is facing rising scrutiny. The pace of cloud adoption is slowing (while still growing), and organizations are seeking to optimize existing cloud spend. Many firms are forming centralized cloud centers of excellence to drive best practices for cloud cost → Read More
Workday Rising 2022: Measuring Progress on Planning
Workday executives and customers detailed the evolution of the company’s ‘plan, execute, analyze’ platform at Workday Rising 2022 in Orlando. In what seems like a wrinkle in time, it has now been four years since Workday acquired Adaptive Insights (since renamed Workday Adaptive Planning). Funny how a pandemic can help to make time fly. → Read More
Tableau Looks to Democratize Data Fabrics
Data fabrics improve access to data wherever that data resides. Now Tableau wants to expose more business users to fabrics using its Tableau Prep, Tableau Catalog and data management capabilities. Most organizations have embraced the imperative to harness as much data as possible to drive better decisions and innovative services, but that can be a challenge in an era in which → Read More
Snowflake Summit 2022: Educating the Masses on Cutting-Edge Innovation
The gap between Snowflake’s bold and innovative vision and its product and customer realities were on display at Snowflake Summit 2022. Attend any big annual enterprise tech show, and you’re likely to hear about the vendor’s far-reaching vision for innovation. That’s why we’re shown those “forward-looking statements” disclaimer slides that nobody ever bothers to read. So we → Read More
Tableau Gets Back on the Conference Circuit in a Time of Change
It was Albert Einstein who said, “the measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” With apologies to Einstein, I’d say the ability to change is also the measure of a good business intelligence (BI) platform and vendor. I had changing customer needs and expectations very much in mind when I attended Tableau Conference 2022 (TC22), May 16-19, in Las Vegas. → Read More
ThoughtSpot Rides the Wave of Customer Cloud Transitions
The return to live tech conferences is heating up, and so, too, is competition in the always-competitive business intelligence (BI) and analytics market. At its May 9-12 Beyond.2022 event held in Las Vegas, ThoughtSpot made it clear that it is accelerating growth by focusing on companies that are moving to modern cloud data platforms offered by the likes of Snowflake, Databricks, Google and AWS. → Read More
It’s Time to Prepare for the E in Environmental, Social, and Governance Initiatives
Executive Summary This trend report examines the emergence of sustainability goals as part of corporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives. It also details the looming arrival of carbon emission and climate risk reporting mandates called for in draft rules issued in March 2022 by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Disclosure requirements → Read More
Constellation ShortList™ Master Data Management
This Constellation ShortList™ presents Master Data Management offerings relevant to early adopters pursuing digital transformation. Offerings included in this document meet the threshold criteria for this category as determined by Constellation Research. → Read More
Constellation ShortList™ Cloud-Based Planning Platforms
This Constellation ShortList™ presents Cloud-Based Planning Platforms offerings relevant to early adopters pursuing digital transformation. Offerings included in this document meet the threshold criteria for this category as determined by Constellation Research. → Read More
Constellation ShortList™ Automated Cloud Data Warehouse Services
This Constellation ShortList™ presents Automated Cloud Data Warehouse Services offerings recommended for early adopters pursuing digital transformation. → Read More
Constellation ShortList™ Integration Platform as a Service (IPaaS)
This Constellation ShortList™ presents Integration Platform as a Service (IPaaS) offerings relevant to early adopters pursuing digital transformation. Offerings included in this document meet the threshold criteria for this category as determined by Constellation Research. → Read More
Constellation ShortList™ Hybrid-Cloud and MultiCloud Relational Transactional Database Management Systems
This Constellation ShortList™ presents Hybrid-Cloud and MultiCloud Relational Transactional Database Management Systems offerings recommended for early adopters pursuing digital transformation. → Read More
Constellation ShortList™ Hybrid-Cloud and MultiCloud NoSQL Databases
This Constellation ShortList™ presents Hybrid-Cloud and MultiCloud NoSQL Databases offerings recommended for early adopters pursuing digital transformation. → Read More
What to Consider When Choosing a Cloud-Centric Analytical Data Platform
Executive Summary High-scale analytical data platforms are used by organizations to drive better decisions and actions and to provide differentiated products, services, and customer experiences. They provide historical and low-latency data for business intelligence (BI) and analytical analysis, supporting production-scale reporting and dashboarding; ad hoc query and analysis; → Read More
What to Look for in Analytical Data Platforms for a Cloud-Centric World
Executive Summary High-scale analytical data platforms are used by organizations to drive better decisions and actions and to provide differentiated products, services, and customer experiences. They provide historical and low-latency data for business intelligence (BI) and analytical analysis, supporting production-scale reporting and dashboarding; ad hoc query and analysis; → Read More
Why Data-Driven Innovators Choose Embedded Analytics
Executive Summary Organizations of every description are pursuing digital innovation. As a result, business and tech leaders, including chief data officers, chief digital officers, chief information officers, and chief technology officers, are increasingly looking for ways to deliver data-driven software and services. It’s a route to differentiation that can be intimidating, → Read More
Tray.io Accelerates Integration and Automation to Drive Agility and Growth
Executive Summary Tray.io provides the Tray Automation Platform, a cloud-based integration platform as a service (iPaaS). The platform’s strengths are in no-code/low-code application integration, data integration, and process automation that is accessible to nonengineers. The platform is built on cloud-native, serverless technology to ensure rapid scaling and elasticity → Read More
Planful Gets Predictive, Heating Up Augmented Planning Era
Planful Predict portfolio starts with signal detection and forecasts aimed at improving financial and operational planning, but there’s more to come. Financial and operational planning is all about preparing for future outcomes. The better you can see into the future, the better prepared you will be to proactively respond to whatever comes your way. Accurate foresight is the → Read More
Actionable Intelligence: The Next Era for BI, Analytics and Apps
Self-Service is a given. The next big wave in BI and analytics is about making insights actionable within the context of day-to-day work. Ten years ago, many organizations were drowning in data; today many organizations are drowning in insights. The freedom of self-service BI led, in many cases, to redundant, overlapping and sometimes contradictory reports and dashboards. → Read More