One Week to CCE — and AI Reshaping the Enterprise

With Constellation's 15th annual Connected Enterprise next week, enterprise leaders are preparing to move from talk to action. The conversations in Half Moon Bay will focus on how organizations turn AI disruption into a durable strategy—and where the next wave of competitive advantage will come from. Secure your spot 👉 It's not too late to register.

In the meantime, this week’s newsletter looks at how those shifts are already taking shape. Vendors are retooling core platforms, databases are evolving to support agentic AI, and new automation tools are changing how revenue, CX, and operations are scaled in real time. Keep reading for our latest research, episodes, and upcoming events.

Let’s get into it. ⬇️

Infor Evolves Its EAP for the AI Era

By Holger Mueller

As AI moves from strategy to execution, Infor is expanding its Enterprise Application Platform to power integration, extension, and custom automation—positioning EAPs as the backbone of next-gen enterprise AI.

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Five Ways to Leverage Agentic AI To Reinvent Your Growth Operations

By Martin Schneider

Discover how growth leaders are reinventing GTM strategy: Martin Schneiders latest report explores five practical ways to leverage agentic AI to optimize lead qualification, sharpen forecasting, and transform growth operations with less disruption.

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Oracle Makes It 4 for 4: Oracle Database@AWS Is Generally Available

By Holger Mueller

As AI reshapes enterprise infrastructure, Oracle doubles down on transactional databases—driving cross-cloud consolidation, reducing total cost of ownership, and enabling vector support to power the next generation of agentic AI applications.

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Magnify.io Adds New Agentic Tools to Optimize Post-Sale Revenue Growth

By Martin Schnieder

Magnify has launched an AI Assistant purpose-built to optimize post-sale revenue—monitoring customer signals, automating multi-platform actions, and acting on insights without manual intervention.

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Reflections From the Road

Join Constellation analyst Liz Miller as she reflects on a whirlwind two weeks, discusses how technology platforms are replacing siloed tools, and explains why flexibility is now vital in today’s workplace.

Liz highlights how AI and new digital solutions are breaking down barriers between roles—enabling anyone, anywhere in the organization, to drive customer engagement and business growth.

Events

• Webinar: Forward to 2026 — 3 AI trends that won't take you backwards | October 22, 2025 | 11 AM PST / 2 PM EST: Cut through AI noise with trends that actually drive business results, not just busywork. Join Liz Miller on 10/22 at 11 AM PT for a live webinar to learn about the three AI trends that will shape customer experience in 2026. 
• Constellation Connected Enterprise | Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay | October 20-23: An immersive three-day summit featuring visionary keynotes, executive exchanges, and the SuperNova Awards Gala. CXOs leave with the insights and connections to lead bold transformations.
• CXO Office Hours | November 7, 2025 | 8 AM PST / 11 AM EST: Join us for a discussion session for buy-side leaders and executives with Constellation analysts to talk about leadership requirements for today, challenges in tech, and how to plan for what’s next.
• AR Exchange | November 7, 2025 | 9 AM PST/ 12 PM EST: This is a chance to touch base with our analyst relations community, catch up on the top issues, and connect about what’s going on in the market. We share what we see with our buy-side clients and what industry trends are materializing.

Constellation Insights with Larry Dignan

• Salesforce CEO Benioff: Context is king: In a Dreamforce keynote that highlighted Salesforce's large enterprise Agentforce adopters, Benioff repeatedly emphasized context and context engineering, a term that's just gaining some momentum from companies like Elastic and Workday.
• Oracle AI World 2025: Autonomous AI Lakehouse, AI Data Platform launched: Oracle launched Oracle Autonomous AI Lakehouse and AI Data Platform as it extends its database dominance into broader AI platform ambitions.
• Salesforce expands OpenAI, Anthropic partnerships, eyes Agentforce everywhere: Salesforce expanded partnerships with OpenAI and Anthropic to embed their large language models into Agentforce 360 and ChatGPT. The Anthropic deal is focused on regulated agencies, as Claude is the first LLM within Salesforce's trust layer.

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In the Press

• Tech Target, Salesforce to release Agentforce 360, Slack agents, October 13, 2025
• Silicon Angle, AppliedAI’s Opus makes compliant and reliable agentic automation available to every company, October 14, 2025
• CX Today, Oracle’s Role-Based AI Agents Promise to Boost Revenue, October 7, 2025

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DisrupTV

Leading in Real Time: Thriving Against the Machines: Dolo Miah, Margaret C. Andrews and Jon Reed Reed reveal what it takes to lead with empathy, presence & adaptability in the age of AI and real-time enterprises.

Be sure to subscribe to the latest updates and live show reminders on DisrupTV's Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Apple Podcasts.

NEXT EPISODE: Episode 415 | 10/17, 11 AM PT/ 2 PM ET

• Amy Osmond Cook, Ph.D. , Ryan Westwood , and Bala B. , Co-authors of The RevOps Advantage: How To Maximize Your Revenue Team’s Potential
• Marty Dublin, Author of Blindspotting: How to See What’s Holding You Back as a Leader

ConstellationTV

AI Trends, Industry Shakeups, and the Power of LLMs: Liz Miller and Holger Mueller break down the most significant shifts in enterprise tech—from AI Forum insights and Thoma Bravo M&A moves, to Sprinklr’s CX evolution and the real trade-offs between LLMs and small models.

Subscribe and tune in for CRTV episodes through Constellation's Twitter, YouTube, and LinkedIn.

NEXT EPISODE: Episode 115 - LIVE from CCE 10/22 | 9 AM PT/12 PM ET

• Get ready for ConstellationTV episode 116, featuring co-hosts Larry Dignan and Martin Schneider bringing you the latest enterprise technology news and other executive interviews. Watch on Constellation's Twitter or LinkedIn platforms.

The pace of change isn’t slowing down—and neither can leadership. We can’t wait to continue these conversations face-to-face at Constellation Connected Enterprise next week!

— The Constellation Research Team

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