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.
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.
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.
The Futurum Group Industry Analyst, Michael Diamond looks at the Verizon Gizmo Watch 3, which is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 4100+ platform, designed to keep children safe.
Partnership Between Twilio and Frame AI Helps Deliver Insights and Recommendations to Inform Critical Decisions
Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group covers Twilio’s partnership with Frame AI, and discusses the continuing value being derived from non-generative AI technology, including NLP, NLG, and analytics-based AI.
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall examines why HPE needed to expand its alliance with Equinix to better capitalize on Equinix’s colocation ecosystem, which currently encompasses thousands of tenants including enterprises, hyperscalers, and CSPs. The HPE move fully aligns with swiftly-growing enterprise and cloud ecosystem demand for broader and more flexible multicloud interconnection, including customers who are opting to integrate their HPE GreenLake environments with their current Equinix deployments.
Randy Kerns, Senior Strategist at The Futurum Group covers covers the release of IBM's new AI-focused solutions as it announces general availability of watsonx.data.
Six-Month Check-in With Internal CRM Tool Users Yields Positive Responses for Efficiency, Value
Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group covers the internal usage of Microsoft Viva Sales, a generative AI-infused tool aimed at driving productivity gains among sales professionals, and discusses the curious lack of mobile support in an era of hybrid and remote work.
Results From a Stanford/MIT Study Indicate Greater ROI From Generative AI When Workers’ Experience Level Is Low
Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group, covers the results of an MIT Sloan/Stanford University study that found generative AI is most helpful to less-skilled contact center workers, and discusses whether applying generative AI tools to more complex data sets will enable more skilled workers to see similar benefits of the technology.
Personalized Financial Engagement Solution Is Designed to Provide Financial Insights to Customers
Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group covers Salesforce’s announcement of its Personalized Financial Engagement solution, and discusses how it can be used to provide granular and personalized insights based on a customer’s unified profile, both inside and outside of a core financial institution.
Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group, covers Cisco’s announcement that Webex Contact Center for Government has gained FedRAMP authorization, and highlights the value of non-federal government agencies selecting software that has also gone through the FedRAMP authorization program.
