Author: Nick Patience

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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Dion Hinchcliffe and Nick Patience at The Futurum Group present the first comprehensive market overview of enterprise agentic AI, evaluating the strengths and trade-offs of commercial and DIY AI automation solutions. This report provides key insights for CIOs on the future of AI-driven workflows.
AI-Optimized Infrastructure Positions CoreWeave as a Strategic Alternative to Hyperscalers Amid GPU Shortage
Nick Patience, VP & AI Practice Lead at The Futurum Group, analyzes the S-1 filing of GPU infrastructure provider CoreWeave; the first step on its path to an IPO.
Nick Patience, VP & AI Practice Lead at The Futurum Group, reveals organizations rapidly advancing through AI maturity stages, with transformational adoption projected to more than double from 11% to 27% as businesses shift from experimentation to strategic implementation across industries.
Snowflake Reports Healthy Q4 Results as AI Investments Begin Paying Dividends
Nick Patience, AI Practice Lead at The Futurum Group shares his insights on Snowflake’s Q4 2025 earnings & what they mean for the broader AI and data analytics space.
In the latest study by Futurum Research, Maximizing ROI with Agentic AI: Why Agentforce Is the Fast Path to Enterprise Value, completed in partnership with Salesforce, Futurum Research explores why Agentforce outperforms DIY (do-it-yourself) approaches, offering a currently unparalleled combination of speed, scalability, and lower Total Cost of Ownership.
The Partnership Between a Major Backer of AI Agents and an Infrastructure and AI Giant Reflects the Growing Need to Support Innovation and New Capabilities in an Increasingly Agentic World
The Futurum Group analysts share their insights on the partnership between Salesforce and Google, which is designed to provide more capability for Agentforce agents, and offer greater service capabilities for Google’s contact center offerings.
Nick Patience, Vice President & AI Practice Lead at The Futurum Group, analyzes Glean's strategic expansion into AI agents, examining how the company's evolution from enterprise search to a comprehensive Work AI platform positions it as a rising force in enterprise AI technology.

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