Category: Workplace Collaboration

The Futurum Group's analysts Daniel Newman and Todd R. Weiss share their insights as Zoom revenue for Q1 hits $1.1B, up 3% YoY, beating estimates, as the video conferencing, cloud contact center, and collaboration vendor unveiled its latest Q1 earnings on May 22.
The Futurum Group's Chief Evangelist Shelly Kramer examines what the rollout of iMessage on Windows 11 will mean for iPhone users who use Microsoft desktops or laptops. This is significant allowing users to use iMessage features on their PC.
The Futurum Group senior analyst Sean Spradling explores news of Zoom’s partnership and investment in Anthropic, the creators of the Claude AI Assistant, and Zoom’s plans to incorporate Claude across the platform, with the first step being in Contact Center. There are some challenges, and Zoom will have work cut out for them on this front, but it will be interesting to see how adept Zoom is at handling customer data as the company’s number of partners grows.
The Futurum Group’s Shelly Kramer covers news from the SAP Sapphire event this week in Orlando of SAP’s collaboration with Microsoft to integrate generative AI with its SAP SuccessFactors solution for talent management and development, intended to address the challenges of the talent gap and learning management.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

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