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Enabling Enterprise Agility with Low-Code/No-Code, AI, and Platforms

Enabling Enterprise Agility with Low-Code/No-Code, AI, and Platforms

In Enabling Enterprise Agility with Low-Code/No-Code, AI, and Platforms, Futurum Research explores how enterprises are modernizing application development by combining LCNC tools, AI-powered development, and platform engineering. The brief highlights why governance, hybrid cloud, and automation are essential to scaling innovation safely and how IBM’s approach helps organizations operationalize agility across the full application lifecycle.

GitLab’s Salvo in the Agent Control Plane Race

GitLab’s Salvo in the Agent Control Plane Race

Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead, Software Lifecycle Delivery at Futurum, analyzes how GitLab’s GA Duo Agent Platform positions the DevSecOps platform as the place where agent-driven delivery is controlled, audited, and trusted at scale.

Can Red Hat and NVIDIA Remove the Friction Slowing AI Deployments?

Can Red Hat and NVIDIA Remove the Friction Slowing AI Deployments

Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead for Software Lifecycle Engineering at Futurum, analyzes Red Hat and NVIDIA’s expanded collaboration around the Rubin platform and RHEL for NVIDIA, examining how Day 0 support aims to reduce AI deployment friction and accelerate enterprise AI systems to production.

5 Reasons Snowflake Acquiring Observe Sets the Tone For 2026

5 Reasons Snowflake Acquiring Observe Sets the Tone For 2026

Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead of Software Lifecycle Engineering at Futurum, examines how Snowflake’s acquisition of Observe signals a shift toward AI observability platforms and why this move reshapes competition, data strategy, and platform control in 2026.

Karpathy’s Thread Signals AI-Driven Development Breakpoint

Karpathy’s Thread Signals AI-Driven Development Breakpoint

Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead for Software Lifecycle Engineering at Futurum, examines why industry researcher Andrej Karpathy’s X thread signals a breakpoint in AI-driven software development and what it means for developers and platform vendors navigating new operating models.

2026: AI is a Reality in Software Development

2026 AI is a Reality in Software Development

Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice, Software Lifecycle Engineering at Futurum, shares his insights on research showing AI is increasingly embedded across the SDLC and DevOps, with 2026 emphasizing observability, security, behavior control, and governance.

FuturumWatch Agentic AI Needs the Agentic AI Foundation

FuturumWatch Agentic AI Needs the Agentic AI Foundation

Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, explains why the new Agentic AI Foundation is becoming essential infrastructure for scalable, interoperable agentic systems and what it means for vendors and practitioners.

Five Key Reasons Why Confluent Is Strategic To IBM

Five Key Reasons Why Confluent Is Strategic To IBM

Brad Shimmin and Mitch Ashley at Futurum, share their insights on IBM’s $11B acquisition of Confluent. This bold move signals a strategic pivot, betting that real-time “data in motion” is the essential nervous system for enterprise AI and hybrid cloud.

Platform Engineers Critical To AI Adoption In 2026

Platform Engineers Critical To AI Adoption In 2026

Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead for Software Lifecycle Engineering at Futurum, shares insights on why platform engineers will be central to 2026 AI adoption and what organizations must prepare for as agentic development accelerates.

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The vision behind everything in Futurum’s Custom Research practice is this: research should show you what is happening, what comes next, and what to do about it. It should be personal to each audience, easy for people to grasp, and structured so LLMs can reason over it accurately. And it should be fast and turnkey; you want answers now, not another project to carry for quarters.

Whether you are defining business, channel, or go-to-market strategy; evaluating vendors or justifying ROI; or commissioning research to fill an emerging market need, we have your back, with a program that answers your questions with the objectivity and credibility to drive real decisions.

To do it, we bring unmatched data to bear: Futurum research, surveys, and market projections; validated market feeds; ETR’s 15 years of insight from 10,000 technology decision-makers; G2’s buyer and user data; and what our analysts hear every day. Add leading primary collection, from AI-moderated voice interviews to surveys and analyst-led interviews, all turnkey, and every project comes out credible, nuanced, and actionable.

And we don’t just drop the results in your lap. For internal work, we provide analyst-led sessions, interactive dashboards, and a range of formats. For market-facing work, Futurum delivers turnkey activation and amplification that actually gets seen, by people and by LLMs, through our media and share of voice. This is research that moves decisions and markets.

We will meet you wherever you are, from a fast-turn brief to a multi-year program, and shape the work to your goals, timeline, and budget. The right program for your moment.

If any of this is useful, I would love to talk.

Benjamin Brown, VP Custom Research, Futurum Research

Benjamin Brown

VP, Custom Research · The Futurum Group

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