Category: Enterprise Software, & Digital Workflows

May 17, 2023

Steven Dickens

Market Coverage

NeuroBlade Announces New Partnership with Dell Technologies to Accelerate Data Analytics

The Futurum Group’s Steven Dickens offers his take on the latest announcements from NeuroBlade and Dell Technologies today, which he opines validates NeuroBlade's approach and offers businesses a powerful tool to make better decisions faster and gain a competitive advantage in today's data-driven world.

AI Platforms, Data Intelligence, Analytics, & Infrastructure, Digital Leadership & CIO, Enterprise Software, & Digital Workflows, Intelligent Devices

May 16, 2023

Shelly Kramer

Market Coverage

Cisco Capital Business Acceleration Program Rolls Out Buy Now, Pay Later Financing

The Futurum Group’s Shelly Kramer explores Cisco’s recent announcement of its new Cisco Capital Business Acceleration Program being offered through Cisco Capital embracing Buy Now, Pay Later financing. Designed to help customers make tech investments, deferring payments until January 2024 — but will it fly?

Enterprise Software, & Digital Workflows

May 15, 2023

Sean Spradling

Market Coverage

Zoom Huddles: A Modern Communication Experience for the Hybrid Workplace

Sean Spradling, Senior Analyst at The Futurum Group, discusses the beta release of Zoom huddles, the experience of the product, and the longer-term implications of the new form of communication.

Enterprise Software, & Digital Workflows

May 12, 2023

Krista Case

Market Coverage

Kyndryl and Fortinet Launch Managed SASE Solution to Simplify Zero Trust Networking

Krista Macomber, senior analyst at Futurum Research (formerly known as Evaluator Group), covers Kyndryl’s collaboration with Fortinet to support Zero Trust and cyber resiliency from a network perspective.

Cybersecurity & Resilience, Data Intelligence, Analytics, & Infrastructure, Digital Leadership & CIO, Enterprise Software, & Digital Workflows, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations

May 12, 2023

Ron Westfall

Market Coverage

Cisco Enlists Specialized Partners to Advance Customer Sustainability and ESG Goals

The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall explores why Cisco is demonstrating the ecosystem partnership acumen vital to supporting its customers sustainability objectives in accord with advancing its own net zero journey. Through specialized partnerships with major players, such as Honeywell, Hitachi, Logicalis, NTT, Rockwell Automation, and Schneider Electric, Cisco is soundly positioned to expand its influence and presence across the entire sustainability landscape.

Enterprise Software, & Digital Workflows, Environmental, Social, Governance, Sustainability, Markets, and Policy

May 12, 2023

Ron Westfall

Market Coverage

Spectrum Enterprise and Cisco Give Business Cybersecurity Protection Ease and SASE Appeal

The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall explores why Spectrum Enterprise, in collaboration with Cisco, can fulfill the topmost cybersecurity demands of businesses through the new enhanced cybersecurity options backed by its service support acumen. Both Managed Network Edge and Enterprise Network Edge include professional integration and management to assist IT teams layer the new cybersecurity capabilities into their network, which can prove critical in the initial adoption of a SASE architecture.

Cybersecurity & Resilience, Digital Leadership & CIO, Enterprise Software, & Digital Workflows, Intelligent Devices

May 11, 2023

Shelly Kramer

Market Coverage

Salesforce Integrates Einstein GPT in Salesforce Sales Cloud and It’s a Game-Changer

The Futurum Group’s Shelly Kramer takes an in-depth look at what the Salesforce announcement of integrating Einstein GPT in Salesforce Sales Cloud means for sales teams and their customers. Automated sales capabilities, intelligent insights to help drive strategy, and delivering on the personalized interactions that customers demand at scale are a few of the reasons to be excited about this news.

AI Platforms, Data Intelligence, Analytics, & Infrastructure, Digital Leadership & CIO, Enterprise Software, & Digital Workflows, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations

May 11, 2023

Shelly Kramer

Market Coverage

Salesforce and Accenture Announce Collaboration on an Acceleration Hub for Generative AI for CRM Technologies

The Futurum Group’s principal analyst Shelly Kramer examines the newly announced collaboration between Salesforce and Accenture to create an acceleration hub for gen AI for CRM tech, and shares thoughts on what it will mean for generative AI for CRM adoption, in particular, the scaling up of Einstein GPT for CRM technologies.

AI Platforms, Digital Leadership & CIO, Enterprise Software, & Digital Workflows, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations

May 11, 2023

Daniel Newman

Market Coverage

IBM Launches watsonx: Powerful New Platform for AI Base Models

The Futurum Group’s Chief Analyst, Daniel Newman, shares his thoughts on IMB’s watsonx launch, a powerful new AI and data platform that brings advanced AI to enterprise clients and will allow organizations to scale with speed.

AI Platforms, Data Intelligence, Analytics, & Infrastructure, Enterprise Software, & Digital Workflows

May 10, 2023

Dave Raffo

Market Coverage

Pure Storage adds MongoDB Enterprise Advanced into Portworx Data Services

Dave Raffo, senior analyst at Futurum Research (formerly known as Evaluator Group), covers the Pure Storage and MongoDB partnership that brings together a storage leader with one of the top NoSQL database providers and value this partnership will bring to ITops.

Data Intelligence, Analytics, & Infrastructure, Digital Leadership & CIO, Enterprise Software, & Digital Workflows, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations

May 10, 2023

Randy Kerns

Market Coverage

IBM Lakehouse as Part of watsonx.data for AI and Analytics

Randy Kerns, senior strategist at Futurum Research (formerly known as Evaluator Group), shares his thoughts on IBM’s recent announcement of launching a new Lakehouse with watsonx.data, named IBM watsonx.data, a new AI and Data platform for enterprises.