Insight Type: News

Jalapeño in Nine Months: Did AI Just Break Chip Design Timelines?
June 26, 2026

Jalapeño in Nine Months: Did AI Just Break Chip Design Timelines?

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, analyzes how OpenAI and Broadcom's Jalapeño accelerator achieved record nine-month tape-out using AI-assisted design optimization and advanced packaging....
Will Intel 18A-P Risk Production Bring External Foundry Customers Through the Door?
June 26, 2026

Will Intel 18A-P Risk Production Bring External Foundry Customers Through the Door?

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, examines how Intel 18A-P's new Power Boost transistor and 9% performance gain could drive external customer adoption and design starts on Intel's leading-edge foundry...
Look Past IBM’s 0.7nm Label: Nanostack Architecture Is the Real Breakthrough
June 26, 2026

Look Past IBM’s 0.7nm Label: Nanostack Architecture Is the Real Breakthrough

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, analyzes IBM's groundbreaking nanostack architecture that moves semiconductor scaling into the Z dimension for the first time, delivering transformative performance gains and restarts SRAM...
Contact Center Silos
June 25, 2026

Zendesk’s AI-Native Voice Push Pressures Contact Center Silos as Voice Volume Surges

Keith Kirkpatrick, Vice President & Research Director, Enterprise Software & Di at Futurum, examines how Zendesk's AI-native voice platform is unifying contact center channels and breaking down operational silos, challenging...
Agentic AI
June 25, 2026

Salesforce’s Agentforce Help Agent Bets on Pay-Per-Resolution, Will Enterprises Trust the Model?

Keith Kirkpatrick, Vice President & Research Director, Enterprise Software & Di at Futurum, examines how Salesforce's Agentforce Help Agent is reshaping enterprise customer service through autonomous agentic AI and outcome-based...
Adobe's Topaz Labs
June 25, 2026

Will Adobe’s Topaz Labs Deal Redefine Creative AI and On-Device Content Workflows?

Keith Kirkpatrick, Vice President & Research Director, Enterprise Software & Di at Futurum, examines how Adobe's Topaz Labs acquisition escalates the creative AI arms race, embedding advanced image and video...
Epicor Prism's Cognitive ERP Push: Can Embedded AI Agents Redefine Manufacturing Outcomes?
June 25, 2026

Epicor Prism’s Cognitive ERP Push: Can Embedded AI Agents Redefine Manufacturing Outcomes?

Epicor Prism launches across European markets, embedding vertical AI agents directly into Kinetic ERP to help manufacturers turn operational data into actionable insights and automate complex workflows in real-time....
Can Cisco Widen Splunk’s Agentic SOC Capabilities With WideField
June 25, 2026

Can Cisco Widen Splunk’s Agentic SOC Capabilities With WideField?

Fernando Montenegro, VP at Futurum, examines Cisco's planned acquisition of WideField Security and how deeper identity and session intelligence could strengthen Agentic SOC capabilities as enterprises deploy more AI agents...
RingCentral's AIR Pro Bet: Can Agentic AI Redefine the Contact Center Stack?
June 25, 2026

RingCentral’s AIR Pro Bet: Can Agentic AI Redefine the Contact Center Stack?

RingCentral's AIR Pro expansion shows enterprise demand for agentic AI in customer engagement, as 56% of decision makers prioritize AI-driven CX and autonomous agents reshape contact centers....
Can Genesis Workbench Break the Bottleneck for AI-Driven Drug Discovery?
June 25, 2026

Can Genesis Workbench Break the Bottleneck for AI-Driven Drug Discovery?

Databricks and NVIDIA launched Genesis Workbench, an open platform unifying GPU-accelerated AI tools for drug discovery while addressing critical bottlenecks in fragmented toolchains and data security risks....
Can Agentic AI Fix IT Incident Management, or Will Complexity Outpace Automation?
June 25, 2026

Can Agentic AI Fix IT Incident Management, or Will Complexity Outpace Automation?

Enterprise IT leaders struggle with hybrid cloud complexity. Agentic AI promises automated solutions, but reliability concerns, hallucinations, and data privacy risks hinder adoption....
AI Platform
June 24, 2026

Will Samsara’s AI-Driven Safety Stack Redefine Fleet Risk Management?

Keith Kirkpatrick, Vice President & Research Director, Enterprise Software & Di at Futurum, Samsara's AI Platform innovations in safety, automation, and supply chain visibility position it as a fleet risk...

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

Newsletter Sign-up Form

Get important insights straight to your inbox, receive first looks at eBooks, exclusive event invitations, custom content, and more. We promise not to spam you or sell your name to anyone. You can always unsubscribe at any time.

All fields are required






Thank you, we received your request, a member of our team will be in contact with you.