Insight Type: Events

Snowflake Summit 2026: Four Infrastructure Bets That Determine Whether the Agentic Enterprise Delivers
June 3, 2026

Snowflake Summit 2026: Four Infrastructure Bets That Determine Whether the Agentic Enterprise Delivers

Brad Shimmin, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, shares insights on Snowflake's four infrastructure bets—Cortex Sense, Iceberg v3, Datastream, and Adaptive Compute—that will determine the success of the agentic enterprise....
Alteryx ONE Forges a Deterministic Path Through the Enterprise AI Wilderness
May 26, 2026

Alteryx ONE Forges a Deterministic Path Through the Enterprise AI Wilderness

Brad Shimmin at Futurum shares his insights on Alteryx's latest platform updates, exploring how injecting deterministic business logic into Alteryx ONE may solve the enterprise AI governance crisis and empower...
Google IO Did Google Just Ship the Full AI Stack
May 22, 2026

Google I/O: Did Google Just Ship the Full AI Stack?

Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his analysis of whether Google just shipped the AI full stack at I/O 2026 and where the architectural gap remains....
Breaking Data Gravity: Google’s Play for a Composable Agentic Ecosystem
May 22, 2026

Breaking Data Gravity: Google’s Play for a Composable Agentic Ecosystem

Brad Shimmin at Futurum unpacks the data announcements from Google I/O 2026, exploring how the Antigravity platform and open protocols drive an evolution away from monolithic data architectures and toward...
At VeeamON 2026, Veeam Grows from Resilience to a Data and AI Trust Company
May 22, 2026

At VeeamON 2026, Veeam Grows from Resilience to a Data and AI Trust Company

Fernando Montenegro, VP at The Futurum Group, shares his insights on Veeam's transition toward a data and AI trust framework designed to secure autonomous enterprise workflows and unify IT and...
Informatica Unbundles the Monolith: Headless Data Management Meets the Agentic Enterprise
May 22, 2026

Informatica Unbundles the Monolith: Headless Data Management Meets the Agentic Enterprise

Brad Shimmin, Senior Analyst at Futurum, shares his insights on Informatica's architectural evolution into a headless data management platform, highlighting how new MCP integrations and the Agent Fabric Context Catalog...
Taming the Agentic Data Center Inside Dell's High-Density AI Platform and Exascale Expansion
May 21, 2026

Taming the Agentic Data Center: Inside Dell’s High-Density AI Platform and Exascale Expansion

Brad Shimmin shares his insights on day two of Dell Technologies World 2026, exploring how the new Dell AI Data Platform, Lightning parallel file system, and PowerStore Elite provide the...
Zendesk Bets on Autonomous AI Agents & Outcome Pricing to Upend Service Models
May 20, 2026

Zendesk Bets on Autonomous AI Agents & Outcome Pricing to Upend Service Models

Keith Kirkpatrick, VP & Research Director at Futurum, covers the latest announcements from Relate, Zendesk’s annual conference, and discusses the impact Autonomous Service Workforce and outcome-based pricing may have on...
Is the Cloud Too Expensive for Agentic AI? Dell Bets on Localized Tokens
May 20, 2026

Is the Cloud Too Expensive for Agentic AI? Dell Bets on Localized Tokens

Brad Shimmin and Nick Patience share their insights on Dell's expansion of the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA, exploring how localized agentic infrastructure and data partnerships provide a secure alternative...
Disrupt Legacy ITSM
May 14, 2026

Freshworks Bets on AI Agent Studio to Disrupt Legacy ITSM

Keith Kirkpatrick, Vice President & Research Director, Enterprise Software & Di at Futurum, Freshworks' AI Agent Studio disrupts legacy ITSM vendors with native integrations, no-code deployment, and platform-first ServiceOps positioning....
SAP Bets the Enterprise on Autonomous AI, But Can It Deliver?
May 14, 2026

SAP Bets the Enterprise on Autonomous AI, But Can It Deliver?

Keith Kirkpatrick, VP and Research Director at Futurum covers the news from SAP Sapphire 2026, and discuss the impact of the company’s AI-focused announcements on the market and on ERP...
Can ServiceNow's Real-Time Data Foundation Make Autonomous AI a Reality?
May 8, 2026

Can ServiceNow’s Real-Time Data Foundation Make Autonomous AI a Reality?

Keith Kirkpatrick, VP & Research Director at Futurum, covers major announcements from Day 2 at ServiceNow Knowledge 2026, and discusses their impact on SaaS vendors and end customers....

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