Research notes and analysis from the Futurum practice areas.
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Brad Shimmin, VP & Practice Lead at Futurum, reveals findings from the new Data Intelligence Platforms Signal report, highlighting how read-write AI agents and transactional execution realigned competitive market standings.
Keith Kirkpatrick, VP & Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on how Futurum’s new ERP Platform “Signal” stacks up against his own year of SAP, Microsoft, Oracle, and NetSuite coverage.
The ERP Platforms market is undergoing its most significant architectural shift since the move to the cloud, as enterprise resource planning evolves from a static system of record into a dynamic system of action, one where autonomous agents plan, execute, and reconcile transactions across finance…
Fernando Montenegro, VP & Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on how offensive AI succeeds because it’s easier to verify than defensive security, shifting the need for vendors to sell proof of exploitability over volume.
Brad Shimmin analyzes Cloudera Anywhere Cloud, examining how modular blueprints, Apache Iceberg, and zero-copy lakehouse architectures resolve data gravity and MLOps bottlenecks across hybrid enterprise AI estates.
Mitch Ashley, VP & Practice Lead at Futurum, shares insights on how AI implementation is the new account control point. Read more on how hyperscalers are reorganizing to capture distributed AI buying authority in 2026.
The Data Intelligence Platform market is undergoing its most consequential shift since the move to cloud data warehousing, as enterprise AI matures from read-only copilots into read-write autonomous agents that plan, negotiate, and execute transactions across business systems without continuous…
Keith Kirkpatrick, Vice President & Research Director, Enterprise Software & Di at Futurum, analyzes Salesforce’s Agentic AI deployment trends showing organizations tripling active agents and reducing creation times by 53%, signaling a major shift i.
Futurum’s Keith Kirkpatrick examines Pega’s FedRAMP Class D expansion in Pega Cloud for Government and how it measures up against competitors in the marketplace.