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Author: Nick Patience

Open Source vs. Proprietary AI: Revolution or Just Another Market Split? - Report Summary
Nick Patience

Open Source vs. Proprietary AI: Revolution or Just Another Market Split? – Report Summary

Nick Patience explores how open-source models from Meta, DeepSeek, and others challenge proprietary AI dominance, revealing a pragmatic enterprise split between open models for flexibility and proprietary for managed services.
C-Suite Executives Dominate AI Decision-Making as Strategy Becomes Priority
Nick Patience

C-Suite Executives Dominate AI Decision-Making as Strategy Becomes Priority

Nick Patience, VP & AI Practice Lead at Futurum, reveals CEOs and CTOs now drive 44.5% of AI decisions, showing a strategic shift from technology-first to business-first leadership in enterprise AI adoption.
IBM Think 2025 - Watsonx Platform Fuels Agentic AI and Hybrid Cloud Value
Brad Shimmin
Nick Patience & Brad Shimmin

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.
OpenAI Windsurf Acquisition Sends Shot Heard Around the AI World
Mitch Ashley
Mitch Ashley & Nick Patience

OpenAI Windsurf Acquisition Sends Shot Heard Around the AI World

OpenAI Is Positioned as a Major AI-Powered Software Development Company, Competing With Microsoft, GitHub, Anthropic, and Startup Cursor
Analysts Mitch Ashley, VP of DevOps and Application Development, and Nick Patience, VP of AI Software and Tools, at Futurum, share their insights on the implications of OpenAI’s agreement to acquire AI coding tool company Windsurf. The acquisition propels OpenAI forward in its quest for leadership in the AI coding and agent development market.
Organizations Face Triple Threat in Generative AI Privacy, Talent & Compliance
Nick Patience

Organizations Face Triple Threat in Generative AI: Privacy, Talent & Compliance

Nick Patience, VP & AI Practice Lead at The Futurum Group, reveals key findings from comprehensive Generative AI implementation research showing data privacy (48.1%), talent scarcity (44.2%), and regulatory compliance (41.0%) as the top barriers organizations face in 2025.
Can Writer's Self-Evolving Models Redefine How Enterprises Deploy AI?
Nick Patience

Can Writer’s Self-Evolving Models Redefine How Enterprises Deploy AI?

Nick Patience, VP & AI Practice Lead at The Futurum Group, analyzes Writer AI's innovative self-evolving models that adapt without retraining. This workflow-focused approach is challenging traditional AI implementation strategies while delivering significant ROI for enterprise customers in financial services, retail, and healthcare.
IBM's Q1 FY 2025 Results Backed by Automation and Hybrid Cloud
Nick Patience & Daniel Newman

IBM Posts Strong Q1 FY 2025 Results, Backed by Automation and Hybrid Cloud

IBM’s Software Strength and AI Bookings Support Its Reaffirmed 2025 Guidance
Daniel Newman and Nick Patience of The Futurum Group break down IBM’s Q1 FY 2025 results, with a focus on software-led growth, expanding AI backlog, and strategic traction across hybrid cloud and automation.
Google Cloud Next 2025: The Yellow Brick Road to AI Transformation
Mitch Ashley
Alex Smith
Keith Townsend
Nick Patience, Keith Kirkpatrick, Mitch Ashley, Alex Smith & Keith Townsend

Google Cloud Next 2025: The Yellow Brick Road to AI Transformation

Google’s AI Ambitions Expand Beyond the Cloud as It Builds an Interoperable Ecosystem for Agent Communication, Application Management, and On-Premises AI Deployment
Nick Patience, AI Practice Lead at The Futurum Group, shares his insights - along with those of colleagues - on Google’s Cloud Next 25 event, held last week in Las Vegas.
GenAI Drives Efficiency While Risk Management Lags in Enterprise Adoption
Nick Patience

GenAI Drives Efficiency While Risk Management Lags in Enterprise Adoption

Nick Patience, VP & AI Practice Lead at The Futurum Group, reveals operational efficiency (76%) leads Generative AI business impacts, while risk management (48%) shows caution, highlighting the need for strategic AI implementation planning.
Agentic AI Platforms Powering the Next Era of Work for Enterprise Executive Summary
Dion Hinchcliffe & Nick Patience

Agentic AI Platforms Powering the Next Era of Work for Enterprise – Executive Summary

In our latest Executive Summary, Agentic AI Platforms Powering the Next Era of Work for Enterprise, we share a sample of the findings from our broader study, “Market Overview of Agentic AI Platforms in the Enterprise for 2025,” published exclusively for Futurum Intelligence Subscribers as an example of the deeper insights available to Subscribers to our Futurum Intelligence Service.
NVIDIA Beyond Chips - A Foundational Infrastructure Company - Report Summary
Nick Patience

NVIDIA: Beyond Chips – A Foundational Infrastructure Company – Report Summary

Nick Patience, Vice President & AI Practice Lead at The Futurum Group, examines how NVIDIA is transforming from being a chip manufacturer to a foundational infrastructure provider as Jensen Huang unveils a four-year product roadmap and vision for AI factories.
SAS Institute: Pioneer in Analytics Pivots to Cloud and AI Growth
Nick Patience

SAS Institute: Pioneer in Analytics Pivots to Cloud and AI Growth

SAS Evolves Its Cloud Strategy With the Viya Platform While Expanding Into Agentic AI and Synthetic Data Generation
Nick Patience, AI Practice Lead at The Futurum Group, shares insights on SAS Institute's strategic pivot to cloud-native analytics with Viya while expanding into agentic AI and synthetic data following its acquisition of Hazy Data.
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