The Future of Work analyzes the confluence of technological, demographic and cultural trends, challenging the traditional work paradigm. Where we work, when we work, how we work, and why we work has evolved dramatically. Constellation's Future of Work offerings arm clients with the knowledge to utilize workplace trends to create an engaged, empowered and efficient workforce.
Arm is launching CSS (Compute Subsystem) for Client, an integrated set of technologies that aims to optimize AI workloads on edge devices. The effort reflects how more AI workloads are going to be distributed to edge devices such as PCs and smartphones.
Box, which has integrations with all of the primary players in the enterprise stack, is looking to be an abstraction layer connecting AI models to content.
Microsoft and its merry band of PC makers launched AI PCs at scale. The launch of Copilot+ PCs, ahead of Microsoft Build 2024, was notable for a host of reasons once you get past how executives were a bit obsessed with outperforming Apple's MacBook.
Workday reported a strong first quarter as the company leveraged AI within its platform and continued to become more efficient. Workday did say that sales cycles are taking longer.
Cognizant CEO Ravi Kumar said the technology services firm's customers are preparing for generative AI, but need to do work in quantifying productivity gains to justify costs. Nevertheless, Kumar said generative AI will usher in a hyperproductivity phase that will affect every worker, every process and every enterprise.
Zoom CEO Eric Yuan said AI enhancements were boosting demand of Zoom Workplace, Zoom Phone, Team Chat, Events and Whiteboard.
Meta is shuttering its Workplace enterprise platform with a June 1, 2026, sunset and the move could be a boon for Zoom's Workvivo, which was acquired a little more than a year ago.
Rocket Companies, a fintech company with mortgage, real estate, and personal finance businesses, is starting to see the payoff from its generative AI efforts as well as a bet on AWS’s Amazon Bedrock.
Technologies for the enterprise have often been seen as enablers for disruption and change. Over the past five decades as one technology or vendor would come to prominence and dominate a market, challengers would apply new technologies or business models to topple the legacy market and create new markets. Silicon Valley built its credibility on these disruptive market entrants. This cycle would continue to repeat itself until the next challenger became the market leader and struggle to hold on to its lead while meeting the demands of investors and the market.
ServiceNow and Microsoft are integrating their respective generative AI bots, ServiceNow Now Assist and Microsoft Copilot, respectively.
