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Salesforce Signs Agreement to Acquire Data Management Vendor Informatica for $8 Billion
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Keith Kirkpatrick & Brad Shimmin

Salesforce Signs Agreement to Acquire Data Management Vendor Informatica for $8 Billion

The Acquisition of a Data Management Vendor Reinforces Salesforce’s Strategy To Strengthen Its Connections With Core-Level Data and Insights
Futurum's Keith Kirkpatrick and Brad Shimmin share their insights on Salesforce’s planned acquisition of ERP vendor Informatica, and discuss the implications for the vendor and the SaaS market.
SAP Polishes and Reinforces its AI Strategy at Sapphire
Brad Shimmin
Keith Kirkpatrick & Brad Shimmin

SAP Polishes and Reinforces Its AI Strategy at Sapphire

AI, Agents, and the Flywheel Effect Were in Full View at SAP’s Annual User Conference
Futurum's Keith Kirkpatrick and Brad Shimmin share their insights on SAP’s annual Sapphire event, and discuss how the company’s revamped strategy helps to redefine the company in the age of generative AI, agents, and data.
Databricks Takes on Agentic AI Itself as a New User Persona with the Acquisition of Postgres Database Provider, Neon
Brad Shimmin
Brad Shimmin

Databricks Takes on Agentic AI Itself as a New User Persona With the Acquisition of Postgres Database Provider, Neon

Databricks Acquires Neon to Bolster Agentic AI Capabilities With Serverless, Open-Source PostgreSQL
Brad Shimmin, VP Practice Lead for Data Management and Analytics at Futurum, shares his insights on Databricks' acquisition of Neon. This move positions Databricks to empower agentic AI with a robust, serverless PostgreSQL database, expanding its AI tooling market reach.
IBM Think 2025 - Watsonx Platform Fuels Agentic AI and Hybrid Cloud Value
Brad Shimmin
Brad Shimmin
Nick Patience & Brad Shimmin

IBM Think 2025 – Watsonx Platform Fuels Agentic AI and Hybrid Cloud Value

Key Announcements Center on watsonx.orchestrate, watsonx.data, and Granite 4.0, as IBM Aims to Make AI Agents and Unstructured Data Pivotal for Enterprise Transformation
Nick Patience and Brad Shimmin, analysts at Futurum, share insights on IBM Think 2025, where IBM showcased advancements in its watsonx platform, focusing on IBM Agentic AI, unstructured data, and hybrid cloud to drive enterprise value.
Dataiku Everyday AI Conference - Rising Above the Agentic AI Fray
Brad Shimmin
Brad Shimmin

Dataiku Everyday AI Conference – Rising Above the Agentic AI Fray

Dataiku Hopes Its LLM Mesh Can Help Enterprises Quell AI Agent Technology Sprawl Through Technology-Agnostic Yet Centralized Control, Orchestration, and Management
Brad Shimmin, VP & Practice Lead, Data & Analytics at The Futurum Group, shares insights on Dataiku's strategy to tame the "agentic AI fray" with new AI Agent tools on its LLM Mesh, focusing on centralized control and orchestration, discussed at Everyday AI.
Is Kyndryl’s Data Transformation Suite for SAP the Model for Future ERP Migrations?
Brad Shimmin
Brad Shimmin

Is Kyndryl’s Data Transformation Suite for SAP the Model for Future ERP Migrations?

Kyndryl Rolls Out New Data Migration Suite Built on Its Own SAP S/4HANA Transformation Experience
Brad Shimmin, VP and Practice Lead at The Futurum Group, shares his insights on how Kyndryl’s SAP data migration suite, rooted in its own 18-month ERP journey, sets a new precedent in accelerating and de-risking cloud ERP transformations.
Altimeter and ARK Lead $100M Round in Hammerspace to Strengthen AI Infrastructure Performance
Brad Shimmin
Brad Shimmin

Altimeter and ARK Lead $100M Round in Hammerspace to Strengthen AI Infrastructure Performance

Brad Shimmin, VP and Practice Lead at The Futurum Group, examines why investors behind NVIDIA and Meta are backing Hammerspace to remove AI data bottlenecks and improve performance at scale.
Will Tableau’s New Enhancements Drive Use of Agentic AI Across the Enterprise
Brad Shimmin
Brad Shimmin & Keith Kirkpatrick

Will Tableau’s New Enhancements Drive Use of Agentic AI Across the Enterprise?

Looking Beyond the Dashboard: Tableau Bets Big on AI Grounded in Semantic Data to Define Its Next Chapter
Futurum analysts Brad Shimmin and Keith Kirkpatrick cover the latest developments from Tableau Conference, focused on the new AI and data-management enhancements to the visualization platform.
Oracle Database Analyst Summit 2025 Oracle Raises its Database Game
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Brad Shimmin & Ron Westfall

Oracle Database Analyst Summit 2025: Oracle Raises its Database Game

Oracle, at Its Annual Oracle Database Analyst Summit, Showed Why It Is the Powerhouse for Optimizing Data Workloads in the AI Era
Futurum’s Brad Shimmin and Ron Westfall examine why Oracle is well-positioned to leverage its unique architectural approach to data management and cloud services to tackle evolving enterprise demand for more efficient data use and new ways of building enterprise software.
At Google Cloud Next, Google Brings its Databases to Bear on Agentic AI Opportunity
Brad Shimmin
Brad Shimmin

At Google Cloud Next, Google Brings Its Databases to Bear on Agentic AI Opportunity

New User Agents and Deeper GenAI Tool Integration With AlloyDB, BigQuery, et al. Promise To Streamline Data-Driven Agentic Workflows
Brad Shimmin, Principal Analyst at The Futurum Group, shares insights on how Google Cloud integrates databases like AlloyDB & BigQuery with GenAI tools to empower data-driven agentic AI workflows unveiled at Google Cloud Next.
GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2025 NVIDIA and Partners Highlight the Value of Data in Building Agentic AI Solutions
Brad Shimmin
Brad Shimmin

GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2025: NVIDIA and Partners Highlight the Value of Data in Building Agentic AI Solutions

Brad Shimmin, VP Data & Analytics at The Futurum Group shares insights on NVIDIA GTC 2025, focusing on the new AI Data Platform and partner efforts to accelerate agentic AI through optimized data infrastructure for complex workloads.
AWS Puts S3 and Next Generation of SageMaker at the Heart of its Data and Analytics Strategy during Pi Day 2025
Brad Shimmin
Brad Shimmin

AWS Puts S3 and Next Generation of SageMaker at the Heart of Its Data and Analytics Strategy During Pi Day 2025

Will a New Unified User Experience for Data, Analytics, and AI Professionals, Along With Updated Lakehouse Capabilities, Help Simplify Aws’ Wide-Ranging Data and Analytics Portfolio?
The Futurum Group's analyst unpacks AWS's SageMaker Unified Studio launch and S3 Tables updates. Learn how this simplifies data and AI workflows for enterprises and strengthens their data lakehouse strategy.
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