Category: AI

Latest Release Provides Support for Continuous Planning at Scale
Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group covers Workday’s announcement of Elastic Hypercube Technology (EHT), which provides enterprise workforce planners with dynamic and elastic compute power, enabling them to incorporate more dimensionality and complexity into planning models, while supporting a high number of concurrent users without impacting speed or performance.
The Futurum Group’s industry analyst Michael Diamond looks at the ASUS EndoAIM Endoscopy System that is fused with AI and co-developed with Intel to help diagnostic professionals achieve greater levels of success when diagnosing patients.
The Futurum Group VP & Practice Leader Steven Dickens offers his take on the latest news from Splunk. Splunk recently announced significant updates and a strategic shift toward AI during its annual user conference, .conf23. The innovations introduced include Splunk Attack Analyzer, a threat analysis tool powered by machine learning, and the integration of Splunk Observability Cloud and Splunk Cloud Platform to provide a unified view of customer-facing systems. Additionally, Splunk is entering the hardware market with Splunk Edge Hub, enabling organizations to gain valuable insights from diverse industries through advanced analytics and data-driven solutions. These developments are aimed at enhancing security operations, improving customer experiences, and providing greater visibility across hybrid cloud environments.
IBM posted a solid second quarter for fiscal year 2023, with revenue of $15.48 billion, which just missed analyst estimates, and earnings per share of $2.18 that handily beat analyst estimates of $2.01 per share
Daniel Newman and Todd R. Weiss of The Futurum Group share their insights as IBM’s Q2 earnings beat EPS estimates, just missing on analyst revenue estimates, as the company launches its new watsonx generative AI and data platform into general availability. The nascent watsonx platform is positioned to help drive broad enterprise success in generative AI for the company.
On this episode of The Six Five – On The Road, hosts Daniel Newman and Patrick Moorhead welcome Splunk’s CEO Gary Steele, live from .conf23 in Las Vegas to discuss their latest announcements, including Splunk Edge Hub, SplunkAI and more.
Major Investments Coming for Specific Areas of Generative AI
Mark Beccue, Research Director at The Futurum Group, examines the $1.3 billion investment in LLM provider Inflection, and the transaction’s implications for the industry. The Inflection funding marks a significant milestone in the generative AI landscape.
Ada Lovelace Institute Report Reveals the Challenge to Balancing Pro-Business AI Priorities With Pro-Consumer AI Protections
Mark Beccue, Research Director at The Futurum Group, examines a new Ada Lovelace Institute report that reveals the challenge to balancing pro-business AI wishes with pro-consumer AI protections. The piece explores how the current AI policy debate in the UK is a great example of the struggle to find equilibrium, where business can thrive and the public is sufficiently protected. The current AI Safety approach will not help the UK become an AI leader, and the approach is essentially a good example of what not to do to build sensible AI regulations that benefit business and the public.
Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group covers the general availability of watsonx, including watsonx.ai, which should help enterprises developing AI applications deploy them more quickly and efficiently, improving time-to-value.
The Futurum Group Industry Analyst, Michael Diamond looks at the recently announced Nothing 2 smartphone, powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+1 Gen 1 premium tier mobile platform, offering its users premium features at an attractive price point.
Widget Allows for Customized Prompt Generation to Speed Workflows
Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group, covers Infor’s announcement of Ask ChatGPT, a widget that allows users to easily build generative AI prompts via information held within Infor ERP systems, improving workflow and minimizing distractions with generative AI.
Capabilities Driving More Efficiency and Relevant Insights to Sales Professionals
Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group covers Microsoft’s announcements of the general availability of Sales Copilot and new features in Dynamics 365 Customer Insights, and discusses how these features will help Microsoft in a highly competitive market for AI-infused software.
On this episode of The Six Five Webcast, hosts Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman discuss Broadcom, VMWare, China, Microsoft, Activision, Adobe, Amazon, IBM & Google.

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