Author: Brad Shimmin

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.
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.
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.
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, 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.
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.
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.
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.
Blurring the Traditional Boundaries Between Storage and Compute, VAST Data Hopes to Further Disrupt the Vector Database Market Through Its Unique Approach to Linear Scalability
Brad Shimmin and Stephen Foskett at The Futurum Group examine VAST Data's platform update, evaluating its AI-ready data capabilities and how those will disrupt the broader agentic AI marketplace.

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