Category: Enterprise Software & Digital Workflows

Conduent's Margin Inflection: Is ASCEND Delivering?
November 7, 2026

Conduent's Margin Inflection: Is ASCEND Delivering?

Conduent's Q3 2026 results show 160 basis points of EBITDA margin expansion, with $106M of $120M cost-savings identified and AI-enabled service delivery strengthened across healthcare, government, and commercial sectors....
EPAM's Q3 Beat: Is Frontier AI Services the Channel's Next Big Bet?
November 6, 2026

EPAM's Q3 Beat: Is Frontier AI Services the Channel's Next Big Bet?

EPAM Systems beat Q3 expectations with strong revenue growth and margin expansion, while its new Frontier AI Services and forward-deployed engineering network capitalize on surging channel demand for AI consulting....
OpenClaw Multiplayer: The Shared Agent Layer Agentic AI Needs
November 6, 2026

OpenClaw Multiplayer: The Shared Agent Layer Agentic AI Needs

OpenClaw Multiplayer enables multiple users to coordinate within a single AI agent, addressing the 55.4% of enterprises struggling with AI agent reliability in production....
GuidePoint Security Builds Partner Infrastructure for Scale
November 6, 2026

GuidePoint Security Builds Partner Infrastructure for Scale

GuidePoint Security launched a dedicated Partner Portal on November 6, 2026, giving vendor partners centralized access to eight-region organization, cybersecurity services, and enablement resources—signaling deliberate infrastructure investment as....
Columbus ASTRA 29: Betting on Outcomes Over Billable Hours
November 6, 2026

Columbus ASTRA 29: Betting on Outcomes Over Billable Hours

Columbus launched ASTRA 29, a three-year strategy replacing time-and-materials billing with Augmented Delivery powered by AI. The pivot targets DKK 2bn revenue and DKK 300m EBITDA by 2029, capitalizing on...
Freshworks Q3 FY 2026 Multi-Product Deals Expand as EX Growth Moderates
November 5, 2026

Freshworks Q3 FY 2026: Multi-Product Deals Expand

Futurum Research analyzes Freshworks’ Q3 FY 2026 earnings. Multi-product EX deals and paid AI usage broaden its enterprise position, while longer sales cycles test execution....
Are Smartsheet Core Platform Fixes Its Real ENGAGE News?
November 5, 2026

Are Smartsheet Core Platform Fixes Its Real ENGAGE News?

Keith Kirkpatrick, VP, Research at Futurum, shares his insights on why Smartsheet’s core platform fixes at ENGAGE 2026, from a finished Table View to consumption pricing, matter more competitively than...
Palantir Q3 FY 2026 Earnings US Commercial Revenue Overtakes US Government
November 5, 2026

Palantir Q3 FY 2026 Earnings: US Commercial Revenue Overtakes US Government

Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead, CIO & Technology Buyers and Software Lifecycle Engineering at The Futurum Group, reviews Palantir's Q3 FY 2026 earnings, US commercial revenue overtaking US government,...
Ricoh's AACL 2026 Research Puts It Inside the Enterprise AI Channel Race
November 5, 2026

Ricoh's AACL 2026 Research Puts It Inside the Enterprise AI Channel Race

Ricoh's acceptance of information-theoretic LLM steering research at AACL 2026 marks a strategic move into enterprise generative AI services, addressing cost and complexity barriers for channel partners adapting models to...
€1.26 Trillion Trapped: Europe's Working Capital Crisis Needs AI
November 5, 2026

€1.26 Trillion Trapped: Europe's Working Capital Crisis Needs AI

Europe's largest companies have €1.26 trillion in excess working capital trapped, according to Hackett Group's 2026 survey. AI-enabled process redesign offers the clearest path to sustainable improvement....
Smartsheet vsActual
November 4, 2026

Can Smartsheet vsActual Close the Gap Between Strategy and Execution?

Keith Kirkpatrick, Vice President, Research at Futurum, examines how Smartsheet vsActual leverages the Execution Graph and governed agents to close the gap between strategic planning and operational execution, wit....
Enterprise Coworker
November 4, 2026

Adobe Brings CX Enterprise Coworker into Third-Party AI Platforms

Keith Kirkpatrick, Vice President, Research, at Futurum, examines how Adobe's Enterprise Coworker integration into Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and Microsoft platforms enables marketers to orchestrate customer experiences....

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