Sep 17, 2020

C3.ai Named to Constellation ShortList™ for Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Cloud Platforms

Recognized for Building the Foundations for AI-Driven Smart Services and Removing the Complexities of Scaling Enterprise AI

By Business Wire

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–C3.ai, a leading enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) software provider for accelerating digital transformation, today announced that it was named to the Constellation ShortList™ for Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Cloud Platforms in Q3 2020. The technology vendors and service providers included on this list deliver critical transformation initiative requirements and a foundation for AI-driven insights for early adopter and fast follower organizations.

“The vendors on this list represent the best of the best for their category. We’ve identified the top vendors to consider based on technology investment, use cases, strategic vision, customer value, executive leadership and price.”

Following an evaluation of companies in the category, C3.ai was selected as one of eight “solutions to know” for leaders looking to reinvent operations and digitally transform business models. C3.ai’s core technology is the C3 AI® Suite – a scalable, production-ready enterprise AI platform that enables organizations to rapidly design, develop, and deploy enterprise-scale AI applications on any public or private cloud environment. It removes the complexities of developing enterprise AI applications by allowing organizations to integrate and unify large, fragmented data sets from disparate data stores and sensors, and making those data available for use by machine learning algorithms for insights that improve operations, optimize supply chain operations, perform cost-saving predictive maintenance, reconfigure distribution networks, and predict and mitigate resource risks.

“It is an honor to be recognized by Constellation Research as a leader in the AI and ML Platform market,” said Ed Abbo‚ President and CTO of C3.ai. “As organizations continue to embrace digital transformation and evolve their business models, C3.ai is proud to offer the only complete, end-to-end enterprise AI platform necessary to speed the development and scale the deployment of AI applications for the world’s largest organizations.”

“In an era of rapidly changing technology, pay to play research, and paywall required rankings, The Constellation ShortList portfolio gives prospects and customers an easy to use list and criteria to build their own vendor selection short list,” said R “Ray” Wang, chairman and founder at Constellation Research. “The vendors on this list represent the best of the best for their category. We’ve identified the top vendors to consider based on technology investment, use cases, strategic vision, customer value, executive leadership and price.”

C3.ai Demonstrates Complete AI Solution for Data-Driven Insights

Artificial intelligence platforms enable organizations and individuals to build intelligent applications based on data. The end goal is to provide the infrastructure to support contextual decisions across a range of business processes.

Constellation considers the following criteria for a complete solution. Leading providers must meet at least five out of nine requirements:

  • Provides cloud-based scalable computing infrastructure
  • Offers compute power acceleration
  • Delivers advanced natural language processing (NLP)
  • Furnishes microservices and application programming interface (API)-driven access to algorithm libraries and services
  • Supports automation of processes
  • Supplies supervised and unsupervised learning
  • Facilitates machine learning interpretability
  • Enables automatic visualization
  • Facilitates a tool kit or low-code algorithm creation

Constellation Research advises leaders on leveraging disruptive technologies to achieve business model transformation and streamline business processes. Products and services named to the Constellation ShortList meet the threshold criteria for this category as determined through client inquiries, partner conversations, customer references, vendor selection projects, market share and internal research. The portfolio is updated at least once per year as the analyst team deems necessary based on market conditions.

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