Author: Brad Shimmin

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....
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....
In-Process Analytics Goes Hyperscale Inside the AWS DuckLabs Acqui-Hire
August 28, 2026

In-Process Analytics Goes Hyperscale: Inside the AWS DuckLabs Acqui-Hire

AWS acquires DuckLabs to embed DuckDB’s in-process OLAP engine natively into Amazon S3 storage, challenging data warehouse economics while keeping open-source governance independent....
Operationalizing Autonomous AI Architecting the Agentic Enterprise on a Converged Data Foundation
August 27, 2026

Operationalizing Autonomous AI: Architecting the Agentic Enterprise on a Converged Data Foundation

In its latest report, Operationalizing Autonomous AI: Architecting the Agentic Enterprise on a Converged Data Foundation, completed in partnership with Snowflake, Futurum Research examines why enterprises must move beyond bolted-on...
Autonomous Agents Rewrite the Rules for Data Intelligence Platforms
August 24, 2026

Autonomous Agents Rewrite the Rules for Data Intelligence 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....
Cloudera Anywhere Cloud Targets Hybrid AI Complexity With In-Place Execution
August 21, 2026

Cloudera Anywhere Cloud Targets Hybrid AI Complexity With In-Place Execution

Brad Shimmin analyzes Cloudera Anywhere Cloud, examining how modular blueprints, Apache Iceberg, and zero-copy lakehouse architectures resolve data gravity and MLOps bottlenecks across hybrid enterprise AI estates....
AWS and the End of the Naive Agent Collapsing the Semantic Divide
August 19, 2026

AWS and the End of the Naive Agent: Collapsing the Semantic Divide

Brad Shimmin, Vice President and Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on how AWS Context moves beyond basic RAG to deliver a governed, open-format knowledge graph that provides autonomous...
AWS and the End of the Naive Agent- Collapsing the Semantic Divide
August 18, 2026

AWS and the End of the Naive Agent: Collapsing the Semantic Divide

Brad Shimmin, Vice President and Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on how AWS Context moves beyond basic RAG to deliver a governed, open-format knowledge graph that provides autonomous...
Runaway Token Costs Are Killing the Frontier AI Monolith
August 18, 2026

Runaway Token Costs Are Killing the Frontier AI Monolith

Futurum analyst Brad Shimmin breaks down the economic breaking point of cloud APIs and why enterprise AI is shifting to highly quantized, sovereign open-weights models....
From Experimentation to Execution: Platform Engineering for Scalable Generative AI
August 10, 2026

From Experimentation to Execution: Platform Engineering for Scalable Generative AI

In our latest thought leadership report, From Experimentation to Execution: Platform Engineering for GenAI, completed in partnership with Red Hat, Futurum Research covers why enterprise GenAI initiatives stall before reaching...
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...
The End of Token Maxing Why Pragmatic AI Engineering is Replacing Frontier Models
August 10, 2026

The End of Token Maxing: Why Pragmatic AI Engineering is Replacing Frontier Models

Futurum analysts Brad Shimmin and Guy Currier discuss how Tokenomics and AI FinOps are forcing enterprises to abandon massive frontier models in favor of smaller, domain-specific AI endpoints governed by...

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