Category: Software Lifecycle Engineering

Databricks Takes on Agentic AI Itself as a New User Persona with the Acquisition of Postgres Database Provider, Neon
May 15, 2025

Databricks Takes on Agentic AI Itself as a New User Persona With the Acquisition of Postgres Database Provider, Neon

Brad Shimmin, VP Practice Lead for Data Management and Analytics at Futurum, shares his insights on Databricks' acquisition of Neon. This move positions Databricks to empower agentic AI with a...
Creating a Modern Mainframe Culture Across DevOps Teams - The Main Scoop Episode 33
May 12, 2025

Creating a Modern Mainframe Culture Across DevOps Teams – The Main Scoop Episode 33

Sheree Britt discusses the importance of DevOps in modernizing application development at TD Bank, highlighting the journey and cultural shifts entailed....
IBM Think 2025 - Watsonx Platform Fuels Agentic AI and Hybrid Cloud Value
May 9, 2025

IBM Think 2025 – Watsonx Platform Fuels Agentic AI and Hybrid Cloud Value

Nick Patience and Brad Shimmin, analysts at Futurum, share insights on IBM Think 2025, where IBM showcased advancements in its watsonx platform, focusing on IBM Agentic AI, unstructured data, and...
OpenAI Windsurf Acquisition Sends Shot Heard Around the AI World
May 7, 2025

OpenAI Windsurf Acquisition Sends Shot Heard Around the AI World

Analysts Mitch Ashley, VP of DevOps and Application Development, and Nick Patience, VP of AI Software and Tools, at Futurum, share their insights on the implications of OpenAI’s agreement to...
RSAC Conference 2025 - Evolution, Change, and Yes, Some AI
May 6, 2025

RSAC Conference 2025 – Evolution, Change, and Yes, Some AI

Key analysts at Futurum share insights on the rebranded RSAC Conference's transformation into a broader platform, the conference experience, and highlight trends including AI implementation and the importance of identity...

Welcome

The vision behind everything in Futurum’s Custom Research practice is this: research should show you what is happening, what comes next, and what to do about it. It should be personal to each audience, easy for people to grasp, and structured so LLMs can reason over it accurately. And it should be fast and turnkey; you want answers now, not another project to carry for quarters.

Whether you are defining business, channel, or go-to-market strategy; evaluating vendors or justifying ROI; or commissioning research to fill an emerging market need, we have your back, with a program that answers your questions with the objectivity and credibility to drive real decisions.

To do it, we bring unmatched data to bear: Futurum research, surveys, and market projections; validated market feeds; ETR’s 15 years of insight from 10,000 technology decision-makers; G2’s buyer and user data; and what our analysts hear every day. Add leading primary collection, from AI-moderated voice interviews to surveys and analyst-led interviews, all turnkey, and every project comes out credible, nuanced, and actionable.

And we don’t just drop the results in your lap. For internal work, we provide analyst-led sessions, interactive dashboards, and a range of formats. For market-facing work, Futurum delivers turnkey activation and amplification that actually gets seen, by people and by LLMs, through our media and share of voice. This is research that moves decisions and markets.

We will meet you wherever you are, from a fast-turn brief to a multi-year program, and shape the work to your goals, timeline, and budget. The right program for your moment.

If any of this is useful, I would love to talk.

Benjamin Brown, VP Custom Research, Futurum Research

Benjamin Brown

VP, Custom Research · The Futurum Group

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