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Databricks Data+AI Summit: Databricks Takes on the World with a New Approach to Database Apps in the Age of AI
Brad Shimmin
Brad Shimmin

Databricks Data+AI Summit: Databricks Takes on the World with a New Approach to Database Apps in the Age of AI

Brad Shimmin, VP at Futurum, shares insights on Databricks' summit. With a new transactional database, free AI/BI, and unified data engineering, Databricks is aggressively moving to become the single platform for all enterprise data and AI.
Oracle Adds Hammerspace to Strengthen AI Storage on OCI
Brad Shimmin
Brad Shimmin
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Oracle Adds Hammerspace to Strengthen AI Storage on OCI

Hammerspace Tier 0 Now Available on Oracle Cloud Marketplace for High-Performance Computing (HPC) and AI Workloads
Brad Shimmin, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on how the availability of Hammerspace Tier 0 on Oracle Cloud Marketplace boosts OCI’s value for AI and HPC workloads by delivering low-latency, high-throughput data access.
Is Snowflake’s Crunchy Data Acquisition a Game-Changer in the AI Data Platform Race
Brad Shimmin
Brad Shimmin
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Is Snowflake’s Crunchy Data Acquisition a Game-Changer in the AI Data Platform Race?

Snowflake’s $250 Million Crunchy Data Deal Intensifies Competition With Databricks and Others as the Company Seeks to Power Up Enterprise AI Through Postgres Cloud Innovation
Brad Shimmin, Vice President & Practice Lead, Data and Analytics at Futurum shares his/her insights on Snowflake’s acquisition of Crunchy. Discover how Snowflake’s $250 million Crunchy Data acquisition is set to reshape the AI data platform landscape and intensify the battle for enterprise cloud leadership.
Salesforce Signs Agreement to Acquire Data Management Vendor Informatica for $8 Billion
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Keith Kirkpatrick & Brad Shimmin
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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