Research notes and analysis from the Futurum practice areas.
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DigiCert’s third annual World Quantum Readiness Day on September 17, 2026, marks a strategic shift from quantum awareness to active post-quantum cryptography deployment, addressing enterprises’ top challenge: cryptographic agility.
OPSWAT’s CTO presentation at Singapore’s OTCEP Forum signals peer-level recognition in OT Security, positioning the vendor to convert high-visibility relationships into durable contracts.
PyTorch Conference 2026 reveals how native PyTorch integration across hyperscalers and hardware vendors addresses enterprise pain points in a rapidly expanding $181.3B AI platforms market projected to reach $496.9B by 2030.
nCino’s selection by Hachijuni Nagano Bank validates enterprise demand for agentic AI in banking, consolidating consumer lending workflows onto a single AI-enabled platform with proprietary credit scoring and OCR capabilities.
Conduent’s collaboration with Google Cloud embeds Gemini into its Viewpoint platform, enabling AI-powered document analysis that reduces legal review effort by 30-60%, establishing a scalable business case for enterprise adoption.
Sprout Social’s Trellis agentic AI unifies listening, publishing, inbox, and reporting into one intelligence layer, now available across all plans and already compressing reporting timelines at enterprise clients like JetBlue and Ipsy.
Keith Kirkpatrick, Vice President & Research Director, Enterprise Software & Di at Futurum, Adobe’s Firefly audio launch consolidates fragmented creative workflows by integrating AI-native tools for enterprise users seeking unified platforms.
Keith Kirkpatrick, Vice President & Research Director, Enterprise Software & Di at Futurum, Salesforce’s Headless 360 positions agentic AI as the dominant enterprise priority, enabling rapid agent deployment with 100+ reusable skills.
FPT IS unveiled its ‘Made by FPT’ AI-native ecosystem, positioning itself as the primary technology partner for Vietnamese banks transitioning to AI-First Banking with sovereign infrastructure.
Thales and Systematic’s partnership integrates command-and-control software with SAMP/T NG air defence systems for Denmark, showing that integration capabilities now outrank feature innovation in enterprise cybersecurity.
Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group, shares insights on SAP’s open ABAP tooling, migration agents, and usage-based model for enterprise AI development.
Lovable migrated lovable.dev to TanStack Start on Cloudflare, now serving 42M+ monthly visitors, stress-testing its AI platform at scale while gathering production insights for its AI builder agent.
Silver Lake’s reported acquisition talks with Workday pushed the company above $51B valuation, exposing a disconnect between public market pessimism and the durable fundamentals of deeply embedded enterprise software platforms.
Abridge expanded its clinical AI agent to all clinicians across 300+ health systems serving 250M patients, proving that EHR integration and workflow embeddedness drive enterprise AI adoption.
Gofore’s strategic pivot toward AI consulting, Defence, Space, and Intelligent Industry is delivering strong results, with Q2 2026 net sales surging 32.4% YoY to €58.5M and adjusted EBITA tripling to €4.2M.
Fragmented multi-cloud visibility creates operational and financial risks; unified OpenTelemetry/LGTM stacks across AWS and GCP achieve 99.8% availability while controlling costs.
FPT IS unveiled an AI-Powered Justice ecosystem at ASEAN Law Forum 2026, demonstrating deployments with 170,000+ legal documents and positioning itself as a full-stack AI integrator for Southeast Asian legal digitization.
Strategy’s coordinated $282M capital action—combining a $150M reserve increase with a $132M STRC repurchase—demonstrates deliberate balance sheet management aligned with surging enterprise generative AI investment priorities.
Keith Kirkpatrick, VP & Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on why enterprise buyers are rejecting per-seat pricing for core software, while simultaneously demanding it for AI, forcing vendors to rethink their commercial strategies.
Persistent Systems’ takeover offer for Nagarro creates a scaled AI services provider positioned to capture surging channel partner demand for AI consulting and custom application development in a market forecast to reach $41.8B by 2029.