Category: AI Platforms

Salesforce’s Slackbot Goes GA - Is This the Real Test for Agentforce
January 15, 2026

Salesforce’s Slackbot Goes GA – Is This the Real Test for Agentforce?

Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at Futurum, examines Slackbot general availability and how Salesforce is operationalizing Agentforce 360 by embedding a permissioned, context-aware AI agent directly into Slack workflows....
Modern Private Cloud: Balancing Operational Agility with Data Sovereignty
January 14, 2026

Modern Private Cloud: Balancing Operational Agility with Data Sovereignty

In this Market Brief, Modern Private Cloud: Balancing Operational Agility with Data Sovereignty, Futurum Research explores why enterprises are rethinking public cloud-first strategies and how modern private cloud platforms enable...
CIO Take Smartsheet's Intelligent Work Management as a Strategic Execution Platform
December 22, 2025

CIO Take: Smartsheet’s Intelligent Work Management as a Strategic Execution Platform

Dion Hinchcliffe analyzes Smartsheet’s Intelligent Work Management announcements from a CIO lens—what’s real about agentic AI for execution at scale, what’s risky, and what to validate before standardizing....
Will Zoho’s Embedded AI Enterprise Spend and Billing Solutions Drive Growth
December 22, 2025

Will Zoho’s Embedded AI Enterprise Spend and Billing Solutions Drive Growth?

Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director with Futurum, shares his insights on Zoho’s latest finance-focused releases, Zoho Spend and Zoho Billing Enterprise Edition, further underscoring Zoho’s drive to illustrate its enterprise-focused capabilities....
TAE Technologies: America’s Answer to Fusion Energy—And Why It Matters for AI Dominance
December 18, 2025

TAE Technologies: America’s Answer to Fusion Energy—And Why It Matters for AI Dominance

In our latest Analyst Insight Report, TAE Technologies: America’s Answer to Fusion Energy—And Why It Matters for AI Dominance, completed in partnership with TMTG, The Futurum Group covers the critical...
Brendan Burke, Research Director
December 17, 2025

Brendan Burke

NVIDIA Bolsters AI/HPC Ecosystem with Nemotron 3 Models and SchedMD Buy
December 16, 2025

NVIDIA Bolsters AI/HPC Ecosystem with Nemotron 3 Models and SchedMD Buy

Nick Patience, AI Platforms Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on NVIDIA's release of its Nemotron 3 family of open-source models and the acquisition of SchedMD, the developer of...
Will a Digital Adoption Platform Become a Must-Have App in 2026?
December 15, 2025

Will a DAP Become the Must-Have Software App in 2026?

Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director with Futurum, covers WalkMe’s 2025 Analyst Day, and discusses the company’s key pillars for driving success with enterprise software in an AI- and agentic-dominated world heading...
Broadcom Q4 FY 2025 Earnings AI And Software Drive Beat
December 15, 2025

Broadcom Q4 FY 2025 Earnings: AI And Software Drive Beat

Futurum Research analyzes Broadcom’s Q4 FY 2025 results, highlighting accelerating AI semiconductor momentum, Ethernet AI switching backlog, and VMware Cloud Foundation gains, alongside system-level deliveries....
Oracle Q2 FY 2026 Cloud Grows; Capex Rises for AI Buildout
December 12, 2025

Oracle Q2 FY 2026: Cloud Grows; Capex Rises for AI Buildout

Futurum Research analyzes Oracle’s Q2 FY 2026 earnings, highlighting cloud infrastructure momentum, record RPO, rising AI-focused capex, and multicloud database traction driving workload growth across OCI and partner clouds....
Adobe Q4 FY 2025 Record Revenue, AI Adoption, ARR Targets
December 12, 2025

Adobe Q4 FY 2025: Record Revenue, AI Adoption, ARR Targets

Futurum Research analyzes Adobe’s Q4 FY 2025 results, emphasizing AI distribution via LLMs, enterprise adoption of Firefly Foundry, and a credit-based monetization model aligned to FY 2026 ARR growth and...
The Future of AI-Driven Service Operations
December 9, 2025

The Future of AI-Driven Service Operations

In our latest market brief, The Future of AI-Driven Service Operations, completed in partnership with Zendesk, Futurum Research explores the demand drivers behind AI-enabled service transformation and the ways organizations...

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