Insight Type: News

Marketing Orchestration
June 12, 2026

Adobe’s CX Enterprise Coworker Raises the Stakes for Agentic AI in Marketing Orchestration

Keith Kirkpatrick, Vice President & Research Director, Enterprise Software & Di at Futurum, analyzes how Adobe's CX Enterprise Coworker redefines marketing orchestration through agentic AI, positioning enterprises to move beyond...
Smart Assist
June 12, 2026

Smartsheet Bets Big on Open AI Integration, Can It Win the Enterprise Platform War?

Keith Kirkpatrick, Vice President & Research Director, Enterprise Software & Di at Futurum, examines how Smartsheet's Smart Assist integration strategy with multiple AI vendors positions the platform as a central...
Five9's Fusion Ecosystem
June 12, 2026

Can Five9’s Fusion Ecosystem Redefine the CX Platform Race?

Keith Kirkpatrick, Vice President & Research Director, Enterprise Software & Di at Futurum, examines how Five9's Fusion partner ecosystem deepens integrations with Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Epic to drive AI-powered omnichannel...
AWS Graviton5 Reframes the CPU as Agentic AI Infrastructure
June 12, 2026

AWS Graviton5 Reframes the CPU as Agentic AI Infrastructure

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, analyzes how AWS Graviton5's general availability redefines CPU architecture for agentic AI, with Meta deploying tens of millions of cores and customers halving their...
Zscaler Bets on Agentic AI Security at Zenith Live 2026
June 12, 2026

Zscaler Bets on Agentic AI Security at Zenith Live 2026

Fernando Montenegro, VP at Futurum, analyzes Zscaler's Zenith Live 2026 platform announcements spanning agentic AI security and Zero Trust SASE, in a market where every major vendor is converging on...
Can Zoho’s Nathu La Server Redefine Enterprise Stack Sovereignty and TCO for AI
June 12, 2026

Can Zoho’s Nathu La Server Redefine Enterprise Stack Sovereignty and TCO for AI?

The Futurum Group’s Keith Kirkpatrick and Brad Shimmin share their insights on Zoho’s Nathu La server, and discuss the impact on the SaaS market, end customers, and Zoho’s competitors....
Aer Lingus Bets on Data Fluency Over Hype, Is This the Real Path to AI Scale?
June 12, 2026

Aer Lingus Bets on Data Fluency Over Hype, Is This the Real Path to AI Scale?

Aer Lingus redirects IT budget toward unified data platforms powered by Databricks, prioritizing data governance and literacy over trend-chasing. Industry data shows 73.6% of organizations increasing spend on analytical infrastructure—signaling...
Will ElevenLabs Avatars Redefine Video Creation for Enterprise Content Teams?
June 12, 2026

Will ElevenLabs Avatars Redefine Video Creation for Enterprise Content Teams?

ElevenLabs Avatars launches in ElevenCreative, enabling enterprises to generate talking-head videos with integrated voice and lip-sync automation, eliminating third-party tools and accelerating global content localization....
Cadence and Synopsys Accelerate Agentic EDA Race at Computex
June 11, 2026

Cadence and Synopsys Accelerate Agentic EDA Race at Computex

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, assesses how Cadence and Synopsys are accelerating the agentic EDA race, with Cadence reaching Level 5 autonomy and Synopsys expanding into multi-physics workflows....
Can AMD EPYC Extend Its Lead Over Vera and Xeon in the Agentic Data Center?
June 11, 2026

Can AMD EPYC Extend Its Lead Over Vera and Xeon in the Agentic Data Center?

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, examines AMD's EPYC 9965's claimed 2.37x NVIDIA Vera throughput and 1.6x Intel Xeon performance in 100 kW rack-scale agentic workloads....
Canonical’s Ubuntu TPU Optimization Shows the Coming Structural Shift in Enterprise AI Infrastructure
June 11, 2026

Canonical’s Ubuntu TPU Optimization Shows the Coming Structural Shift in Enterprise AI Infrastructure

Guy Currier at Futurum examines Canonical’s launch of optimized Ubuntu images for Google Cloud TPU virtual machines and its strategic implications for enterprise AI infrastructure economics, accelerator diversification beyond GPUs,...

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