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SkyWater's CEO Letter Redefines the US Foundry Model
March 12, 2026

SkyWater’s CEO Letter Redefines the US Foundry Model

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, examines SkyWater’s CEO letter and how it reframes mature nodes and advanced packaging as strategic infrastructure for quantum-era manufacturing....
Adobe’s Ecosystem Evolution Creating a Seamless Core for Partner Success
March 12, 2026

Adobe’s Ecosystem Evolution: Creating a Seamless Core for Partner Success

Alex Smith and Tiffani Bova at Futurum Research at Futurum examine Adobe’s unified Digital Experience Partner Program and AI-powered PxHub mark a shift in scaling ecosystems....
Will Salesforce’s Agentic Contact Center Force a Rethink of CCaaS Sourcing
March 12, 2026

Will Salesforce’s Agentic Contact Center Force a Rethink of CCaaS Sourcing?

Keith Kirkpatrick, VP & Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on Salesforce Contact Center offering, and discusses the impact for customers and Salesforce’s competitors in the CCaaS and enterprise...
Dataiku Pivots to AI Success. Can One Control Plane Master a Multi-Cloud Agent Wilderness
March 12, 2026

Dataiku Pivots to AI Success. Can One Control Plane Master a Multi-Cloud Agent Wilderness?

Brad Shimmin, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, explores Dataiku's pivot to "The Platform for AI Success." He analyzes how new tools for agent management and visual orchestration aim to...
Broadcom's DSP Launch Intensifies the AI Optics Race with Marvell
March 12, 2026

Broadcom’s DSP Launch Intensifies the AI Optics Race with Marvell

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares his analysis of Broadcom's 3nm Taurus BCM83640 400G/lane optical DSP and what it means for the intensifying competition with Marvell over 1.6T AI...
Will Zendesk’s Forethought Acquisition Enable True Agentic Resolutions
March 12, 2026

Will Zendesk’s Forethought Acquisition Enable True Agentic Resolutions?

Keith Kirkpatrick, VP & Research Director at Futurum, covers Zendesk's proposed acquisition of Forethought, and discusses its impact on Zendesk’s Resolution Platform, outcome-based pricing models, and other SaaS competitors offering...
OpenAI Acquires Promptfoo, Gaining 25% Foothold in Fortune 500 Enterprises
March 11, 2026

OpenAI Acquires Promptfoo, Gaining 25% Foothold in Fortune 500 Enterprises

Mitch Ashley, VP Practice Lead at Futurum, examines OpenAI's acquisition of Promptfoo and what it signals about the security and governance requirements blocking AI agents from enterprise production....
Can Applied Materials and Micron Crack the Materials Barrier Holding Back HBM?
March 11, 2026

Can Applied Materials and Micron Crack the Materials Barrier Holding Back HBM?

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares insights on the Applied Materials and Micron partnership to co-develop advanced materials engineering for next-generation memory scaling, and what it means for the...
Claude Marketplace Tests Whether Anthropic Can Win the Procurement Heart
March 11, 2026

Claude Marketplace Tests Whether Anthropic Can Win the Procurement Heart

Alex Smith, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum examines Anthropic’s Claude Marketplace and how commitment-based procurement and partner apps shift enterprise AI buying toward consolidated spend and workflow-specific tools....
CData Trades in Vibe-Coding for Industrial-Grade Enterprise AI Infrastructure
March 10, 2026

CData Trades in Vibe-Coding for Industrial-Grade Enterprise AI Infrastructure

Brad Shimmin, Vice President at Futurum, analyzes CData’s March 9th pivot toward enterprise AI infrastructure. CData is tackling the AI "accuracy gap" with a validated 98.5% query success rate and...
Teradata Trades Duct Tape for Unified Intelligence With Its Latest Release
March 10, 2026

Teradata Trades Duct Tape for Unified Intelligence With Its Latest Release

Brad Shimmin, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, analyzes Teradata’s launch of the Agentic Enterprise Vector Store. This multi-modal pivot aims to challenge the standalone vector database by bringing AI...
Did GitHub Agent HQ Quietly Show Up in Microsoft VS Code 1.110
March 10, 2026

Did GitHub Agent HQ Quietly Show Up in Microsoft VS Code 1.110?

Mitch Ashley, VP Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on how VS Code 1.110’s agent plugins, hooks, and Git-based distribution embed agent development control surface capabilities directly into the...

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