Author: Brad Shimmin

Microsoft Build 2026 - The Platform, Integration Plane, and Developer Surface
June 4, 2026

Microsoft Build 2026 – The Platform, Integration Plane, and Developer Surface

Futurum Analysts Ashley, Kirkpatrick, Patience, and Shimmin analyze Microsoft Build 2026 across models, agents, data intelligence, governance, and silicon as Microsoft positions itself as the platform, the integration plane, and...
Snowflake Summit 2026: Four Infrastructure Bets That Determine Whether the Agentic Enterprise Delivers
June 3, 2026

Snowflake Summit 2026: Four Infrastructure Bets That Determine Whether the Agentic Enterprise Delivers

Brad Shimmin, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, shares insights on Snowflake's four infrastructure bets—Cortex Sense, Iceberg v3, Datastream, and Adaptive Compute—that will determine the success of the agentic enterprise....
41.3% of Enterprises Default to Cloud-Provider Catalogs as AI Infrastructure Choices Splinter Across Four Layers
June 3, 2026

41.3% of Enterprises Default to Cloud-Provider Catalogs as AI Infrastructure Choices Splinter Across Four Layers

Futurum's Brad Shimmin, VP of Data Intelligence, Analytics & Infrastructure, notes AI infrastructure fragmented in 1H 2026. Cloud catalogs (41.3%), basic RAG (59.4%), and an even vector DB split reveal...
Curing Agentic Hallucinations: DataHub’s Answer to the AI Context Gap
June 2, 2026

Curing Agentic Hallucinations: DataHub’s Answer to the AI Context Gap

Brad Shimmin breaks down the release of DataHub Cloud v1 and explores how its automated context platform cures AI analytics hallucinations by feeding agents pre-validated, expert-approved business logic....
Starburst’s Intelligence Platform Sets Out to Tame the Multi-Cloud AI Wilderness
June 2, 2026

Starburst’s Intelligence Platform Sets Out to Tame the Multi-Cloud AI Wilderness

Brad Shimmin, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on Starburst's new Enterprise Intelligence Platform, exploring how federated data access and Managed Icehouse are solving the unpredictable cloud...
Alteryx ONE Forges a Deterministic Path Through the Enterprise AI Wilderness
May 26, 2026

Alteryx ONE Forges a Deterministic Path Through the Enterprise AI Wilderness

Brad Shimmin at Futurum shares his insights on Alteryx's latest platform updates, exploring how injecting deterministic business logic into Alteryx ONE may solve the enterprise AI governance crisis and empower...
Breaking Data Gravity: Google’s Play for a Composable Agentic Ecosystem
May 22, 2026

Breaking Data Gravity: Google’s Play for a Composable Agentic Ecosystem

Brad Shimmin at Futurum unpacks the data announcements from Google I/O 2026, exploring how the Antigravity platform and open protocols drive an evolution away from monolithic data architectures and toward...
Informatica Unbundles the Monolith: Headless Data Management Meets the Agentic Enterprise
May 22, 2026

Informatica Unbundles the Monolith: Headless Data Management Meets the Agentic Enterprise

Brad Shimmin, Senior Analyst at Futurum, shares his insights on Informatica's architectural evolution into a headless data management platform, highlighting how new MCP integrations and the Agent Fabric Context Catalog...
Taming the Agentic Data Center Inside Dell's High-Density AI Platform and Exascale Expansion
May 21, 2026

Taming the Agentic Data Center: Inside Dell’s High-Density AI Platform and Exascale Expansion

Brad Shimmin shares his insights on day two of Dell Technologies World 2026, exploring how the new Dell AI Data Platform, Lightning parallel file system, and PowerStore Elite provide the...
The No-Compromise AI Foundation: Oracle Reimagines the Database for the Agentic Era
May 21, 2026

The No-Compromise AI Foundation: Oracle Reimagines the Database for the Agentic Era

In this report, completed in partnership with Oracle, Futurum Research examines why production-scale agentic AI requires a secure, converged, data-resident foundation built for real-time context, persistent memory, and open data...
Is the Cloud Too Expensive for Agentic AI? Dell Bets on Localized Tokens
May 20, 2026

Is the Cloud Too Expensive for Agentic AI? Dell Bets on Localized Tokens

Brad Shimmin and Nick Patience share their insights on Dell's expansion of the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA, exploring how localized agentic infrastructure and data partnerships provide a secure alternative...
Precision Over Prose: Why SAP Knowledge Graph is the Secret to Production-Ready AI
May 14, 2026

Precision Over Prose: Why SAP Knowledge Graph is the Secret to Production-Ready AI

Brad Shimmin, VP and Practice Lead at The Futurum Group, explores SAP’s major data-centric announcements at Sapphire 2026. He analyzes how the new SAP Knowledge Graph and SAP-RPT-1.5 aim to...

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