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The Context Bottleneck- Where AI Buyers Struggle, the Market Accelerates
September 30, 2026

The Context Bottleneck: Where AI Buyers Struggle, the Market Accelerates

Labeling is the only AI data challenge still rising, up to 40.5%, while the Semantic & Context Layer leads every year of Futurum's DIAI forecast, peaking at 29.0%. Buyers and...

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Enterprise Applications Market Set to Reach $1.1T by CY2031 as 57.7% of Buyers Prefer Consumption or Outcome Pricing for GenAI Add-Ons
August 13, 2026

Enterprise Applications Market Set to Reach $1.1T by CY2031 as 57.7% of Buyers Prefer Consumption or Outcome Pricing for GenAI Add-Ons

Futurum Research’s 2H 2026 Enterprise Applications Market Sizing & Five-Year Forecast projects the market at $1.1T by CY2031, while its Decision Maker Survey (N=833) finds 57.7% of buyers prefer consumption...
Charting the Rise of the Revenue-Driven Data Team ‘New Business Opportunities’ Become the Fastest-Growing Priority for 2026
August 10, 2026

Charting the Rise of the Revenue-Driven Data Team: ‘New Business Opportunities’ Become the Fastest-Growing Priority for 2026

Futurum's Brad Shimmin, VP of Data Intelligence, Analytics & Infrastructure, notes a shift in 1H 2026: building AI capabilities (-5.6 pts) and trust in data (-6.5 pts) fell as top...
Risk Management Tops Cyber Budget Drivers as Modernization Falls 11 Points
August 7, 2026

Risk Management Tops Cyber Budget Drivers as Modernization Falls 11 Points

Fernando Montenegro, VP & Practice Lead at Futurum, on why risk management strategy (47.8%) has overtaken modernization as the top cybersecurity budget driver, with modernization down 11 points....
Inference Climbs to 71.7% of AI Platforms Infrastructure Spend by 2030
August 6, 2026

Inference Climbs to 71.7% of AI Platforms Infrastructure Spend by 2030

Nick Patience, VP & AI Practice Lead at Futurum, notes Managed inference hit 58.6% of AI platforms infrastructure in CY2025 and scales to 71.7% by CY2030, structurally inverting the 74/26...
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...
The Age of Agentic Silicon: Data Center Chip Market to Reach $1.2 Trillion by 2030
July 6, 2026

The Age of Agentic Silicon: Data Center Chip Market to Reach $1.2 Trillion by 2030

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares findings from new research showing the data center semiconductor market surging to $1.2 trillion by 2030, as agentic AI inference reaches 45% of...

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