Insight Type: News

Is SAP’s Next-Gen Ariba the Missing Link for Real Agentic Procurement Workflows
March 18, 2026

Is SAP’s Next-Gen Ariba the Missing Link for Real Agentic Procurement Workflows?

Keith Kirkpatrick, VP & Research Director at Futurum, covers the launch of next-generation SAP Ariba, which embeds AI natively within procurement, leveraging SAP’s unmatched troves of workflow and process data....
OpenShell Redraws the Agent Control Plane — Open Standard or Product Launch
March 18, 2026

OpenShell Redraws the Agent Control Plane — Open Standard or Product Launch?

Mitch Ashley, VP Practice Lead at Futurum, examines NVIDIA OpenShell's out-of-process enforcement model — and why it sets a standard every enterprise agent runtime must now meet....
Will Workday’s Sana Make Conversational AI the Core Interface for Enterprises
March 18, 2026

Will Workday’s Sana Make Conversational AI the Core Interface for Enterprises?

Keith Kirkpatrick, VP & Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights into Workday’s announcement of Sana, its conversational AI suite designed to unify workflows by embedding AI agents natively within...
AWS Rises to the Agentic AI Moment With Cerebras Integration for Fast Inference
March 17, 2026

AWS Rises to the Agentic AI Moment With Cerebras Integration for Fast Inference

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, examines how the AWS-Cerebras partnership deploys disaggregated inference architecture through Amazon Bedrock, pairing Trainium prefill with Cerebras decode to target industry-leading speed....
NVIDIA Agent Toolkit
March 16, 2026

At GTC 2026, NVIDIA Stakes Its Claim on Autonomous Agent Infrastructure

Nick Patience and Mitch Ashley, analysts at Futurum, examine NVIDIA's Agent Toolkit announcements at GTC 2026, covering NemoClaw, AI-Q, the Nemotron Coalition, and what they mean for enterprise agentic AI...
Could The Qualcomm-Neura Collaboration Accelerate Standardization and Codevelopment in Robotics
March 16, 2026

Could The Qualcomm-Neura Collaboration Accelerate Standardization and Codevelopment in Robotics?

Olivier Blanchard, Research Director & Practice Lead, Intelligent Devices at Futurum, examines Qualcomm and NEURA’s collaboration to build physical AI reference architectures for cognitive robotics, focusing on standardization....
Fortinet’s FortiOS 8.0 Pushes Secure Networking Toward AI Governance
March 16, 2026

Fortinet’s FortiOS 8.0 Pushes Secure Networking Toward AI Governance

Fernando Montenegro, VP and Practice Lead, Cybersecurity at Futurum, examines Fortinet’s FortiOS 8.0 adds AI governance, flexible SASE options, and quantum-safe protections to secure networking across hybrid environments....
Cohesity’s DSPM Bet Blurs the Line Between Visibility and Recovery
March 16, 2026

Cohesity’s DSPM Bet Blurs the Line Between Visibility and Recovery

Fernando Montenegro, VP and Practice Lead, Cybersecurity Futurum Research at The Futurum Group, examines Cohesity DSPM, powered by Cyera, ties sensitive data discovery and classification to protection and recovery readiness...
Yann LeCun’s AMI Raises $1BN Seed Round - Is the World Model Era Finally Here
March 13, 2026

Yann LeCun’s AMI Raises $1BN Seed Round – Is the World Model Era Finally Here?

Nick Patience, VP & AI Platforms Practice Lead at Futurum, examines AMI Labs' $1.03B seed round - Europe's largest - and what it means for the world model era, sovereign...
Nebius Designs the Agentic Era of AI Cloud Platforms with NVIDIA Investment
March 13, 2026

Nebius Designs the Agentic Era of AI Cloud Platforms with NVIDIA Investment

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, examines NVIDIA’s $2 billion investment in Nebius and its implications for AI cloud infrastructure, including the push toward AI factories, inference platforms, and large-scale...
Synopsys Converge – Is the New Synopsys Ready to Own Multi-Physics Design
March 13, 2026

Synopsys Converge – Is the New Synopsys Ready to Own Multi-Physics Design?

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on Synopsys Converge 2026, where the "New Synopsys" unveiled Multiphysics-Fusion, AgentEngineer, and Ansys 2026 R1, among other announcements aimed at the...

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