Insight Type: News

Healthcare Data
May 18, 2026

Is Qualtrics’ $6.75B Press Ganey Forsta Bet the Healthcare Data Platform Play Others Can’t Match?

Keith Kirkpatrick, Vice President & Research Director, Enterprise Software & Di at Futurum, Qualtrics' $6.75B acquisition of Press Ganey consolidates major healthcare datasets, positioning it to lead AI-driven experience management...
Narrowing the AI Production Gap Red Hat’s Focus on AI-Assisted Engineering
May 18, 2026

Narrowing the AI Production Gap: Red Hat’s Focus on AI-Assisted Engineering

Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on how Red Hat Summit 2026 narrows the production gap for AI-assisted engineering by moving execution, provenance, and identity...
Why Internal-Only Monitoring Fails Autonomous IT, and What Leaders Must Do Next
May 18, 2026

Why Internal-Only Monitoring Fails Autonomous IT, and What Leaders Must Do Next

Internal dashboards show green lights while users face outages. LogicMonitor reveals why internet performance monitoring is essential for CIOs managing complex digital ecosystems....
Databricks Expands Unity Catalog Interoperability, Is True Open Lakehouse Finally Here?
May 16, 2026

Databricks Expands Unity Catalog Interoperability, Is True Open Lakehouse Finally Here?

Databricks expands Unity Catalog to enable external engines like Apache Spark and DuckDB to access managed Delta tables, eliminating enterprise data silos and reducing operational friction through open lakehouse architecture....
Cerebras IPO
May 15, 2026

Cerebras’ $95B First Day Valuation Sizes Up the 2028 XPU Opportunity

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, reviews how Cerebras' $95B valuation reflects investor confidence in XPU market growth through 2030, backed by $24.6B in contracted backlog....
Unified Communications
May 15, 2026

RingCentral’s Customer Engagement Bundle for Microsoft Teams Raises the Stakes for Unified Communications

Keith Kirkpatrick, Vice President & Research Director, Enterprise Software & Di at Futurum, examines how RingCentral's Customer Engagement Bundle for Microsoft Teams redefines unified communications by embedding AI-powered calling, receptionists,...
Canva Claude
May 15, 2026

Can Canva and Claude for Small Business Kickstart the SMB AI Marketing Revolution?

Keith Kirkpatrick, Vice President & Research Director, Enterprise Software & Di at Futurum, Canva and Claude's partnership transforms SMB marketing with AI-powered campaigns, challenging traditional creative agencies and legacy platforms....
Zoho Mail's Client Scripting
May 15, 2026

Will Zoho Mail’s Client Scripting Redefine Email as a Workflow-First Platform?

Keith Kirkpatrick, Vice President & Research Director, Enterprise Software & Di at Futurum, examines how Zoho Mail's Client Scripting feature embeds JavaScript automation directly into email workflows, enabling enterprises to...
Can Claude for Small Business Bridge the AI Adoption Gap for Main Street America?
May 15, 2026

Can Claude for Small Business Bridge the AI Adoption Gap for Main Street America?

Anthropic launches Claude for Small Business, embedding AI into QuickBooks, PayPal, and HubSpot. Though 78% of organizations plan increased AI investment, most allocate minimal budgets to practical automation....
Can You.com's Finance Research API Set a New Standard for Trustworthy Financial AI?
May 15, 2026

Can You.com’s Finance Research API Set a New Standard for Trustworthy Financial AI?

You.com's Finance Research API achieves 87.29% accuracy through evidence arbitration and licensed data, demonstrating enterprise demand for trustworthy AI automation in financial workflows....
Precision Over Prose: Why SAP Knowledge Graph is the Secret to Production-Ready AI
May 14, 2026

Precision Over Prose: Why SAP Knowledge Graph is the Secret to Production-Ready AI

Brad Shimmin, VP and Practice Lead at The Futurum Group, explores SAP’s major data-centric announcements at Sapphire 2026. He analyzes how the new SAP Knowledge Graph and SAP-RPT-1.5 aim to...
Is PyTorch 2.12 the Tipping Point for Hardware-Agnostic AI at Scale?
May 14, 2026

Is PyTorch 2.12 the Tipping Point for Hardware-Agnostic AI at Scale?

PyTorch 2.12 transforms from research tool to enterprise-ready platform with hardware-agnostic AI, unified graph APIs, 100x performance gains, and advanced quantization for production dominance....

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Benjamin Brown, VP Custom Research, Futurum Research

Benjamin Brown

VP, Custom Research · The Futurum Group

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