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AWS Marketplace Evolving to Support All Stages of the Sales Cycle
September 14, 2026

AWS Marketplace Evolving to Support All Stages of the Sales Cycle

Alex Smith, Analyst at The Futurum Group, covers the AWS Marketplace Seller Conference 2026, detailing strategies like 'Marketplace Everywhere', new GEO storefronts, and commercial upgrades such as 0% fees for...
Can Qualtrics Close the AI-Widened Experience Gap
September 11, 2026

Can Qualtrics Close the AI-Widened Experience Gap?

Keith Kirkpatrick, VP, Research, Enterprise Software & Digital Workflows at Futurum, shares his insights on whether Qualtrics' new XM Data & AI platform can close the AI-widened Experience Gap....
The Foundry Bet- IonQ, SkyWater, and the Industrialization of Quantum
September 10, 2026

The Foundry Bet: IonQ, SkyWater, and the Industrialization of Quantum

Futurum's Daniel Newman shares his insights on why quantum’s next phase is an industrialization race, why the SkyWater acquisition puts IonQ in the top echelon, and why the bet still...
Beyond Raw Compute Equinix’s Strategic Bet on AI Infrastructure
September 9, 2026

Beyond Raw Compute: Equinix’s Strategic Bet on AI Infrastructure

Nick Patience, VP & AI Platforms Practice Lead at The Futurum Group, examines Equinix Fabric One and Inference Exchange, and asks whether neutral infrastructure solves a problem enterprises have today...
CrowdStrike Bets on Its Own Models to Secure the AI Revolution
September 8, 2026

CrowdStrike Bets on Its Own Models to Secure the AI Revolution

Fernando Montenegro, VP at Futurum, analyzes CrowdStrike's Fal.Con 2026: an ambitious, largely defensible push into its own AI models and agent security, anchored to the endpoint and the promise to...
Genesys Bets on Agentic Orchestration to Own Enterprise CX
September 8, 2026

Genesys Bets on Agentic Orchestration to Own Enterprise CX

Keith Kirkpatrick, VP and Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on Genesys's new four-layer agentic orchestration stack, which aims to make Genesys Cloud the enterprise system of record for...
Broadcom Builds Sovereign Agentic AI Foundations Around VMware Tanzu
September 3, 2026

Broadcom Builds Sovereign Agentic AI Foundations Around VMware Tanzu

Brad Shimmin, Vice President and Practice Lead at The Futurum Group, analyzes Broadcom's VMware Tanzu Platform updates at VMware Explore 2026, covering deny-by-default agent runtimes, AI-ready data foundations, and TrueSource...
Partners Weary on SaaS as Infrastructure Surges Again
September 1, 2026

Partners Weary on SaaS as Infrastructure Surges Again

Alex Smith, VP & Practice Lead at Futurum, shares insights on how the partner ecosystem is shifting from SaaS to infrastructure and custom services like AI consulting as new growth...
Autonomy Over Analytics The Read-Write Decree Rewiring Enterprise Data Platforms
August 28, 2026

Autonomy Over Analytics: The Read-Write Decree Rewiring Enterprise Data Platforms

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....
NXP Tech Days Can Physical AI Reference Designs Solidify the Neural Axis
August 28, 2026

NXP Tech Days: Can Physical AI Reference Designs Solidify the Neural Axis?

Brendan Burke and Olivier Blanchard, Research Directors at Futurum, share their insights from NXP Tech Days Silicon Valley, where reference designs from humanoid hands to a four-board MCX A5 networking...
Does the New ERP Platform “Signal” Get the Market Right
August 26, 2026

Does the New ERP Platform “Signal” Get the Market Right?

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...
August 26, 2026

ERP Platforms – Futurum Signal

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...

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