Category: AI and Data Analytics

Comprehensive AI Governance Is Critical to AI Success
Mark Beccue, Research Director at The Futurum Group, examines IBM’s announcement of watsonx.governance, a new solution for AI risk management. AI risk management is foundational and critical to operationalizing AI. Enterprises will learn this either the hard way, through ignoring it, or the easier way, by embracing it. IBM is in a great position to help enterprises navigate AI risk management. The research note explores the key takeaways related to IBM’s strategic move in this space.
AI Assistants Are Morphing Beyond Interfaces to Automate Application Tasks
Mark Beccue, Research Director at The Futurum Group, examines Amazon’s preview of agents for Amazon Bedrock, which will enable developers to create agents based on foundational models (FMs) that can manage and perform tasks within multiple applications. The note explores the key takeaways related to Amazon’s strategic move in with task-completing agents.
Dynamics 3Enterprise and Premium Customers Can Access Copilot Within Their Existing Licenses
Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group shares his insights into Microsoft’s decision to provide Copilot GPT features within the license terms of its Enterprise and Premium versions of the Dynamics 365 family of products, and discusses the benefits and challenges for the company and its customers.
Growing Sophistication of AI Assistants Signals Next-Generation Computing
Mark Beccue, Research Director at The Futurum Group, examines Cohere’s launch of Coral, a new AI-based knowledge assistant. Open AI introduced ChatGPT a mere 9 months ago. In that short amount of time, the concept of an AI assistant has evolved and mutated rapidly to a point where the challenges for LLM-based AI assistants are being addressed and enterprise requirements are part of their design. The research note explores what Coral’s debut signals about what is likely to happen next with AI assistants and whether or not we are on the cusp of next-generation computing.
Partnerships Span the Globe to Include Mobicom, Pronovias, SpiceJet, Kubota Tractor Corporation, and Jack in the Box
Alex Gaw, Contributing Analyst at The Futurum Group, provides a roundup of the latest customer wins for CX firms and their partners. In this edition, he examines initiatives from CX providers Flytxt, Sprinklr, CleverTap, 8x8, and InMoment—and how their tie-ups benefit partners including Mobicom, Pronovias, SpiceJet, Kubota Tractor Corporation, and Jack in the Box.
HPE Discover 2023 advances GreenLake offerings, Pure Storage brings more to FlashArray and FlashBlade, MongoDB takes off and what is in with the noise and news around generative AI? Steven Dickens and Camberley Bates dive in on this Infrastructure Matters podcast.
SaaS Giant Unveils Pay Now, Snapchat for Commerce, Reorder Portal, and Order Support Features to Enable the Efficient Creation of Purchasing Experiences Across Channels
Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group, covers Salesforce’s enhancements to its Commerce Cloud offering, which include support for in-channel purchasing experiences, AI-driven reordering tools, AI-powered service-to-commerce tools, and the ability to create Snapchat ads on the platform, and discusses how these tools can drive additional revenue.
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall assesses why the formation of the Network Resilience Coalition can advance improvements in the updating of hardware and software on a more consistent and systematic basis on a global basis, including supporting organizations in attaining the end-to-end visibility key to bolstering network hardware and software resilience that can advance overall cybersecurity capabilities across their networks.
Observability and Security Get Uplift From Generative AI
Steven Dickens, VP & Practice Leader at The Futurum Group shares his insights on the Dynatrace’s announcement of its Hypermodal AI capability, which is designed to improve observability and security in the digital age. By combining predictive, causal, and generative AI insights, Dynatrace Davis empowers businesses to automate issue identification and resolution, gain comprehensive security insights, and drive innovative improvements across their operations.
Topics Include CX/EX, Good or Bad CX, GigCX, Interacting with Brands, and Expert Video Consultations
Alex Gaw, Contributing Analyst at The Futurum Group, provides a roundup of the latest CX research reports and survey findings from NTT Limited, Qualtrics XM Institute, Limitless, MoEngage, IrisCX.
On this episode of The Six Five Insider, hosts Daniel Newman and Patrick Moorhead welcome Mircon’s Girish Cherussery, Senior Director, Product Management for a conversation on High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) along with insight into the memory ecosystem.
On this episode of The Six Five Connected, host Diana Blass dives into the copyright violations, data privacy issues, and potential deception associated with AI-generated content.

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