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Software Lifecycle Engineering Market to Reach $226 Billion by 2030 as Enterprise Hands AI the Keyboard Before the Guardrails
July 13, 2026

Software Lifecycle Engineering Market to Reach $226 Billion by 2030 as Enterprise Hands AI the Keyboard Before the Guardrails

Futurum's 2H 2026 Software Lifecycle Engineering research sizes the market at $226 billion by 2030 and finds AI now runs the majority of the software lifecycle, while 75% of organizations...

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May 27, 2026

Futurum Group Enters Definitive Agreement to Acquire Aptiviti Inc., Parent of Enterprise Technology Research (ETR), Bringing Wall Street’s Premier Predictive Data into its Futurum Intelligence Platform™

Futurum Group, a leading technology advisory, research, and intelligence firm, today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Aptiviti, Inc., the parent company of Enterprise Technology Research (ETR)....
52% of Compute Decision Makers Use Reasoning Models as Primary AI Model Type
May 18, 2026

52% of Compute Decision Makers Use Reasoning Models as Primary AI Model Type

Futurum Research’s 1H 2026 data center semiconductor survey of 824 enterprise decision makers finds 52.3% of model-serving compute now goes to reasoning models, 54.0% describe their AI workload as balanced...
41% of Firms Plan App Consolidation; Best-of-Breed Procurement Falls to 20.7%
May 12, 2026

41% of Firms Plan App Consolidation; Best-of-Breed Procurement Falls to 20.7%

Futurum’s Keith Kirkpatrick reveals best-of-breed procurement has fallen to 20.7% as 41% of enterprises plan to consolidate app stacks, driven by the data unification demands of enterprise AI....
Are Outcome-Based and Hybrid AI Pricing Models Rewriting the Vendor Playbook?
May 12, 2026

Are Outcome-Based and Hybrid AI Pricing Models Rewriting the Vendor Playbook?

Keith Kirkpatrick, VP & Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights into outcome-based or hybrid pricing models offered by SaaS vendors, and discusses how these models help to align vendors...
AI Platforms Market Hits $109.9B, More Than Tripling by 2030
May 8, 2026

AI Platforms Market Hits $109.9B, More Than Tripling by 2030

Futurum Research’s 1H 2026 AI platforms market forecast finds a $109.9B market on a base-case path to $496.9B by 2030 (35.2% CAGR), with even the bear scenario more than tripling...
Scale-Across AI Networking The Third Dimension of AI Infrastructure Design
April 28, 2026

Scale-Across AI Networking: The Third Dimension of AI Infrastructure Design

Tom Hollingsworth, Advisor at Futurum, shares his insights on the rise of scale-across AI networking design. He focuses on how it can alleviate resource constraints and create more capacity for...

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