Futurum Custom Research:
Published Analysis & Insights

Futurum’s published thought leadership, competitive landscapes, and ROI Spectrum business cases—authored independently by Futurum with sponsorship from technology, services, or channel sponsors—that range from briefs and reports to full primary studies with deep quantitative and qualitative primary data collection.

Redefining Creative Workflows in the AI Era

Research

Thought Leadership Brief

Redefining Creative Workflows in the AI Era

In Redefining Creative Workflows in the AI Era, completed in partnership with Adobe, Futurum Research examines how organizations are moving beyond isolated AI productivity gains toward unified creative platforms that....
The Governance Gap Why Scaling AI Requires More Than Monitoring

Research

Thought Leadership Brief

The Governance Gap: Why Scaling AI Requires More Than Monitoring

In our latest market brieft, The Governance Gap: Why Scaling AI Requires More Than Monitoring, completed in partnership with IBM, Futurum Research examines why AI governance must evolve from periodic....
The Rise of the Super Agent: How Agentic AI Is Reshaping the Enterprise

Research

Thought Leadership Brief

The Rise of the Super Agent: How Agentic AI Is Reshaping the Enterprise

In our latest Market Brief, The Rise of the Super Agent: How Agentic AI Is Reshaping the Enterprise, completed in partnership with Lenovo, Futurum Research examines how autonomous AI systems....
The Enterprise Imperative for Digital Sovereignty Architecture, Control, and Competitive Advantage

Research

Thought Leadership Brief

The Enterprise Imperative for Digital Sovereignty: Architecture, Control, and Competitive Advantage

In our latest Market Brief, The Enterprise Imperative for Digital Sovereignty: Architecture, Control, and Competitive Advantage, completed in partnership with IBM, Futurum Research explores why AI is changing the sovereignty....
Data Gravity in the Age of AI Engineering the Mission-Critical Engine for Autonomous Workloads

Research

Thought Leadership Report

Data Gravity in the Age of AI: Engineering the Mission-Critical Engine for Autonomous Workloads

In our latest report, Data Gravity in the Age of AI: Engineering the Mission-Critical Engine for Autonomous Workloads, completed in partnership with Oracle, Futurum Research explores why fragmented data architectures....
The Autonomous IT Imperative

Research

Thought Leadership Report

The Autonomous IT Imperative

In our latest Market Report, The Autonomous IT Imperative, completed in partnership with Tanium, Futurum Research examines why traditional IT operations and security models are reaching their limits—and how Autonomous....
PC Pricing & Demand Under Pressure: How Consumers Will Actually Respond

Research

Thought Leadership Primary Study

PC Pricing & Demand Under Pressure: How Consumers Will Actually Respond

In this Market Study, Futurum Research examines how consumer PC buyers respond to rising prices and why most remain addressable through adjustments in timing, configuration, or channel.....
The No-Compromise AI Foundation: Oracle Reimagines the Database for the Agentic Era

Research

Thought Leadership Report

The No-Compromise AI Foundation: Oracle Reimagines the Database for the Agentic Era

In this report, completed in partnership with Oracle, Futurum Research examines why production-scale agentic AI requires a secure, converged, data-resident foundation built for real-time context, persistent memory, and open data....
IBM watsonx Orchestrate: The ROI Is Real

Research

ROI Spectrum Study

IBM watsonx Orchestrate: The ROI Is Real

In this BEV Report, completed in partnership with IBM, Futurum Research explores how enterprise customers are using IBM watsonx Orchestrate to move beyond AI experimentation and generate measurable value through....
The Business Economic Value of Freshservice by Freshworks

Research

ROI Spectrum Study

The Business Economic Value of Freshservice by Freshworks

In our latest BEV Report, The Business Economic Value of Freshservice by Freshworks, completed in partnership with Freshworks, Futurum Research examines how enterprises migrating from large legacy ITSM platforms to....
Vulnerability Management at Scale: Moving from Telemetry Overload to Orchestrated Remediation

Research

Thought Leadership Brief

Vulnerability Management at Scale: Moving from Telemetry Overload to Orchestrated Remediation

In our latest Market Brief, Vulnerability Management at Scale: Moving from Telemetry Overload to Orchestrated Remediation, completed in partnership with Brinqa, Futurum Research examines how enterprises can move beyond telemetry....
The Autonomous Store: How Agentic AI is Redefining the Retail Experience

Research

Thought Leadership Brief

The Autonomous Store: How Agentic AI is Redefining the Retail Experience

In our latest Market Brief, The Autonomous Store: How Agentic AI is Redefining the Retail Experience, completed in partnership with Lenovo, Futurum Research explores how agentic AI is reshaping retail....

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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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