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Gen AI Usage Becoming Enterprise Cornerstone
Nick Patience

Beyond Experimentation: AI Becoming Enterprise Cornerstone

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 Q4 FY25 Shows Strong Momentum in Core Business and AI Initiatives
Nick Patience

Snowflake Q4 FY25 Shows Strong Momentum in Core Business and AI Initiatives

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.
Maximizing ROI with Agentic AI: Why Agentforce Is the Fast Path to Enterprise Value
Dion Hinchcliffe & Nick Patience

Maximizing ROI with Agentic AI: Why Agentforce Is the Fast Path to Enterprise Value

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.
Does Salesforce and Google’s Partnership Raise the Bar for AI Agent Capability?
Fernando Montenegro
Keith Kirkpatrick, Nick Patience, Dion Hinchcliffe, Ron Westfall & Fernando Montenegro

Does Salesforce and Google’s Partnership Raise the Bar for AI Agent Capability?

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.
Glean Launches Enterprise AI Agent Platform - Report Summary
Nick Patience

Glean Launches Enterprise AI Agent Platform – Report Summary

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.
SAP and Databricks Launch SAP Business Data Cloud
Nick Patience

SAP and Databricks Launch SAP Business Data Cloud

Major Partnership Sees Databricks Offered as a First-Party Data Service; Aims to Modernize SAP Data Access and Accelerate AI Adoption Through Business Data Cloud
Nick Patience, AI Practice Lead at The Futurum Group, examines the strategic partnership between SAP and Databricks that combines SAP's enterprise data assets with Databricks' data platform capabilities through SAP Business Data Cloud, marking a significant shift in enterprise data accessibility and AI innovation.
Alphabet Q4 2024: Ad Strength Overshadowed by Cloud Revenue Miss
Keith Kirkpatrick & Nick Patience

Alphabet Q4 2024: Ad Strength Overshadowed by Cloud Revenue Miss

Alphabet’s Q4 Saw Solid Gains in Search and YouTube, Yet Google Cloud’s Revenue Fell Short, and a $75 Billion Capex Forecast Raised Investor Concerns
The Futurum Group’s Keith Kirkpatrick and Nick Patience analyze Alphabet’s Q4 2024 earnings, highlighting strong ad revenue from Search and YouTube, concerns over Google Cloud’s growth miss, and the company’s aggressive $75 billion capex plan.
HPE Private Cloud AI with NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE Essential to Accelerating GenAI Industrial Transformation
Nick Patience & Ron Westfall

HPE Private Cloud AI with NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE: Essential to Accelerating GenAI Industrial Transformation

The Futurum Group’s latest research report, HPE Private Cloud AI with NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE: Essential to Accelerating GenAI Industrial Transformation, completed in partnership with HPE and NVIDIA, assesses why HPE Private Cloud AI directly addresses the top challenges enterprises face in adopting AI across their entire organization.
Unlocking the Power of Private Cloud With NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE A Smarter Approach
Nick Patience & Ron Westfall

Unlocking the Power of Private Cloud With NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE: A Smarter Approach

In our latest brief, Unlocking the Power of Private Cloud With NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE: A Smarter Approach, completed in partnership with HPE and NVIDIA, delves into HPE’s Private Cloud AI, which offers enterprises a turnkey solution that eliminates the complexities of a DIY approach while accelerating AI adoption.
DeepSeek Disrupts AI Market with Low-Cost Training and Open Source, Yet Many Questions Loom
Mitch Ashley
Olivier Blanchard
Krista Case
Fernando Montenegro
Daniel Newman, Mitch Ashley, Olivier Blanchard, Krista Case, Keith Kirkpatrick, Fernando Montenegro, Nick Patience & Ron Westfall

DeepSeek Disrupts AI Market with Low-Cost Training and Open Source, Yet Many Questions Loom

AI Investors, Tech Leaders, and Customers Sort Through Short-Term Fallout and Longer-Term Claims By China’s DeepSeek
The Futurum Group analysts share their insights on DeepSeek R1 claims of model training and cost efficiency, questions about the potential use of competitors' models, and security and privacy concerns. Analysts discuss the near and long-term implications of faster and lower-cost LLM development.
Microsoft Q2 FY 2025: Cloud and AI Strength Offset Margin Pressures from Rising Capex
Keith Kirkpatrick & Nick Patience

Microsoft Q2 FY 2025: Cloud and AI Strength Offset Margin Pressures from Rising Capex

Cloud and AI Services Saw Strong Adoption, While Heightened Capex for AI Infrastructure Affected Margin Performance
The Futurum Group’s Keith Kirkpatrick and Nick Patience analyze Microsoft’s Q2 FY 2025 results, highlighting strong cloud and AI-driven growth, a surge in commercial bookings, and record-high AI infrastructure investments.
AI Software Market Shows Strong Growth as Organizations Accelerate AI Adoption
Nick Patience

AI Software Market Shows Strong Growth as Organizations Accelerate AI Adoption

Nick Patience, VP & AI Practice Lead at The Futurum Group reveals key findings from comprehensive AI market research showing surge to $127B in 2024 and rapid enterprise adoption, with 56% of organizations expecting major transformation from AI by 2027-2029.
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