Author: Keith Kirkpatrick

Will Usage-Based Pricing Broaden Agentic ABAP Development
August 19, 2026

Will Usage-Based Pricing Broaden Agentic ABAP Development?

Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group, shares insights on SAP’s open ABAP tooling, migration agents, and usage-based model for enterprise AI development....
Workday's Takeover Talks With Silver Lake Expose How Far AI Disruption Fears Overshot
August 18, 2026

Workday’s Takeover Talks With Silver Lake Expose How Far AI Disruption Fears Overshot

Silver Lake's reported acquisition talks with Workday pushed the company above $51B valuation, exposing a disconnect between public market pessimism and the durable fundamentals of deeply embedded enterprise software platforms....
The Pricing Split: Why Core Software and AI Can't Share One Commercial Model
August 17, 2026

The Pricing Split: Why Core Software and AI Can’t Share One Commercial Model

Keith Kirkpatrick, VP & Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on why enterprise buyers are rejecting per-seat pricing for core software, while simultaneously demanding it for AI, forcing vendors...
Oracle Introduces Fusion Agentic Applications for HCM
August 14, 2026

Oracle Introduces Fusion Agentic Applications for HCM

Keith Kirkpatrick, VP & Research Director, Enterprise Software & Digital Workflows at Futurum, shares his insights on Oracle's new Fusion Agentic Applications for HCM and what they mean for the...
Enterprise Applications Market Set to Reach $1.1T by CY2031 as 57.7% of Buyers Prefer Consumption or Outcome Pricing for GenAI Add-Ons
August 13, 2026

Enterprise Applications Market Set to Reach $1.1T by CY2031 as 57.7% of Buyers Prefer Consumption or Outcome Pricing for GenAI Add-Ons

Futurum Research’s 2H 2026 Enterprise Applications Market Sizing & Five-Year Forecast projects the market at $1.1T by CY2031, while its Decision Maker Survey (N=833) finds 57.7% of buyers prefer consumption...
Intuit's AI-Native Enterprise Suite Deepens Its Mid-Market Grip—Can SAP and Oracle Defend Downmarket?
August 13, 2026

Intuit’s AI-Native Enterprise Suite Deepens Its Mid-Market Grip—Can SAP and Oracle Defend Downmarket?

Intuit's Summer 2026 Enterprise Suite embeds generative AI and industry-specific workflows, positioning itself as the AI-native alternative to traditional ERP vendors for mid-market dominance....
Epicor's Leadership Transition What Does Vaibhav Vohra Bring to the Table
August 13, 2026

Epicor’s Leadership Transition: What Does Vaibhav Vohra Bring to the Table?

Keith Kirkpatrick, VP & Research Director, at Futurum, shares insights on Epicor's new CEO, Vaibhav Vohra, and what his product-led background means for cloud, AI, and supply chain customers....
Agentic AI
August 7, 2026

Salesforce’s Agentic Enterprise Index: A Paradigm Shift in AI Deployment

Keith Kirkpatrick, Vice President & Research Director, Enterprise Software & Di at Futurum, analyzes Salesforce's Agentic AI deployment trends showing organizations tripling active agents and reducing creation times by 53%,...
growth strategy
August 7, 2026

Freshworks Bets on FedRAMP to Crack the $102 Billion Federal IT Market

Keith Kirkpatrick, Vice President & Research Director, Enterprise Software & Di at Futurum, Freshworks' FedRAMP 'In Process' designation enables it to capture federal IT market share through its AI-powered Freshservice...
Adobe's ChatGPT Plugin Bets the Creative Suite on Conversational AI
August 7, 2026

Adobe’s ChatGPT Plugin Bets the Creative Suite on Conversational AI

Keith Kirkpatrick, Vice President & Research Director, Enterprise Software & Di at Futurum, examines how Adobe's ChatGPT plugin integrates 70+ creative tools into conversational AI, opening new distribution channels while...
Pega's FedRAMP Expansion A Major Shift for Government Digital Transformation
August 7, 2026

Pega’s FedRAMP Expansion: A Major Shift for Government Digital Transformation?

Futurum's Keith Kirkpatrick examines Pega's FedRAMP Class D expansion in Pega Cloud for Government and how it measures up against competitors in the marketplace....
Epicor Prism Launches: A Major shift for Supply Chain AI Integration?
August 6, 2026

Epicor Prism Launches: A Major shift for Supply Chain AI Integration?

Keith Kirkpatrick, Vice President & Research Director, Enterprise Software & Di at Futurum, examines how Epicor Prism's embedded AI agents are reshaping supply chain operations for manufacturers and distributors across...

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