Insight Type: Events

Can ServiceNow’s Autonomous AI Foundation Finally End the Enterprise ETL Tax
May 8, 2026

Can ServiceNow’s Autonomous AI Foundation Finally End the Enterprise ETL Tax?

Brad Shimmin at Futurum explores ServiceNow's major architectural shift toward a real-time data foundation. This update rearchitects the platform for the era of autonomous agents, collapsing the wall between operational...
Tableau Dismantles the BI Dashboard With a Graph-Powered Leap Into Headless, Agentic Analytics
May 7, 2026

Tableau Dismantles the BI Dashboard With a Graph-Powered Leap Into Headless, Agentic Analytics

Brad Shimmin, Research Director at Futurum, analyzes Tableau’s leap to agentic analytics, leveraging a Knowledge Engine grounded in 33 million semantic models to drive autonomous, closed-loop enterprise actions....
Agentic Layer
May 6, 2026

Is Twilio’s Next Generation Platform the Missing Agentic Layer for Enterprise CX?

Keith Kirkpatrick, Vice President & Research Director, Enterprise Software & Di at Futurum, Twilio's Next Generation Platform aims to be the foundational agentic layer for intelligent, memory-driven customer conversations at...
Autonomous Workforce
May 6, 2026

ServiceNow Bets the Platform on Governed, Autonomous AI Orchestration

Keith Kirkpatrick, Vice President & Research Director, Enterprise Software & Di at Futurum, examines ServiceNow's Knowledge 2026 announcements, including the Autonomous Workforce and AI Control Tower designed to orchestrate governed...
AWS Pushes the Agent Stack Quick, Connect Verticals, OpenAI on Amazon Bedrock
May 4, 2026

AWS Pushes the Agent Stack: Quick, Connect Verticals, OpenAI on Amazon Bedrock

Mitch Ashley, Keith Kirkpatrick, Fernando Montenegro, and Alex Smith of Futurum Research share their analysis of AWS’s What’s Next event, where Quick, Connect verticals, and OpenAI on Amazon Bedrock reposition...
Agentic ERP Model
May 1, 2026

Can NetSuite’s Agentic ERP Model Survive the SaaS ‘Apocalypse’ and Win the Next AI Platform War?

Keith Kirkpatrick, Vice President & Research Director, Enterprise Software & Digital Workflows at Futurum, examines how NetSuite's agentic ERP model aims to deliver real AI ROI and counter the fragmenting...
Fusion Applications
May 1, 2026

Oracle Bets on Outcome-Driven AI Agents, But Will Enterprises Buy the Vision?

Keith Kirkpatrick, Vice President & Research Director, Enterprise Software & Di at Futurum, examines Oracle's pivot toward AI agents embedded in Fusion Applications, analyzing enterprise demand for measurable business value,...
Workhuman Bets on Data, AI, and Experience to Drive Business Outcomes
May 1, 2026

Workhuman Bets on Data, AI, and Experience to Drive Business Outcomes

Keith Kirkpatrick, VP & Research Director at Futurum, covers Workhuman Live, and shares his insights into how the company’s transformation is being designed to help customers align workers with desired...
Agentic AI
April 30, 2026

Will Workday’s Agentic Power-Up with External Service Orchestration Build More Pan-Enterprise Credibility?

Guy Currier, Chief Analyst, Visible Impact & Research Director, Ecosystems, Channels, & Marketplaces at Futurum: Workday's agentic AI strategy, powered by Sana integration and guardrails-first design, positions it to challenge...
From Silicon to Security: Architecting the Autonomous Enterprise at Google Cloud Next 2026
April 29, 2026

From Silicon to Security: Architecting the Autonomous Enterprise at Google Cloud Next 2026

Brad Shimmin, Nick Patience, Brendan Burke, and Fernando Montenegro analyze the Google Cloud Agentic Strategy from Next 2026. They explore how Gemini Enterprise, the Virgo network, and the Wiz integration...
SUSECON 2026 - Big Bet On MCP and Partners for Infrastructure AI Operations
April 24, 2026

SUSECON 2026 – Big Bet On MCP and Partners for Infrastructure AI Operations

Mitch Ashley, VP Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on SUSE's MCP integrations with AWS, Fsas Technologies, n8n, Revenium, and Stacklok, and what they signal about MCP becoming the...
CadenceLIVE 2026 — Can Agentic AI Finally Crack 3D IC Design Automation?
April 22, 2026

CadenceLIVE 2026 — Can Agentic AI Finally Crack 3D IC Design Automation?

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, unpacks CadenceLIVE 2026's agentic AI expansion—ViraStack, InnoStack, and a customer-tested Mental Model architecture—and why 3D IC design automation remains the semiconductor industry's hardest unsolved...

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