Insight Type: Research Note

The ServiceNow Intellibot acquisition is another step forward in the RPA arena. Futurum’s Shelly Kramer takes a look at an acquisition that makes the already impressive digital workflow platform even more well-positioned for success — for customers all over the world, including the fast-growing Indian market, which is a strategic move for ServiceNow.
Futurum’s Olivier Blanchard covers news of general availability of AWS’s Amazon Lookout for Metrics solution, which uses machine learning to automate business KPI monitoring and real-time BI insights — which could translate into an attractive value proposition for AWS customers.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall discusses the launch of Ericsson’s 5G Core Policy Studio, designed to deliver the unified single point of access for all network policies with pre-defined templates for service design meeting the burgeoning CSP demand for comprehensive policy visibility, centralized control and automation for efficient operations, and GUI-driven ease of use needed to accelerate time to revenue. It appears as though Ericsson 5G Core Policy is ready to move the needle in the policy management market realm and that the pressure is on for key policy management rivals.
Microsoft and Discord are rumored be discussing a potential acquisition with a price tag in the $10 billion range. Futurum’s Fred McClimans discusses the dynamics of this potential deal, why it may be a better option than an IPO for Discord, and how the combination could significantly boost Microsoft’s reach into the non-Microsoft gaming community.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores recent announcements from Pluribus Networks. The company is delivering the portfolio innovation and ecosystem influence to accelerate SDN automation and disaggregated networking across DC realms. Pluribus Networks’ portfolio commitment and marketing focus on delivering disaggregation, network virtualization, and controllerless SDN automation across DC environments is a key differentiator. For more on Ron’s insights, be sure and read the article.
In an effort to use analytics to drive higher performance and better outcomes from its F1 team, Red Bull Racing has partnered with Oracle.
Benu Networks BNG upgrade reveals a BNF solution with clearly differentiated SASE and WWC capabilities that fulfill new carrier cloud-native edge demands. Futurum’s Ron Westfall explains how carrier demand for secure networks and solutions that deploy across converged networks is burgeoning as work-from-home (WFH), remote learning, and the rapid growth of 5G are escalating network bandwidth demands and introducing new security challenges. Westfall is also bullish on the resultant portfolio differentiation and capabilities for Benu as a result of this upgrade.
Automation Anywhere and Google Cloud have announced a partnership designed to expand RPA use in the enterprise. Futurum’s Shelly Kramer explores the partnership, its benefits, and the fact that RPA is, without question, a foundational part of digital transformation. That’s exactly the reason we are seeing much movement in the industry as a whole, especially among Big Tech.
Intel unveiled this week its bold new path forward including two new domestic fabs, a global foundry service, and new partnerships.
The new HPE Ezmeral product and partnership updates sharpen HPE’s Kubernetes management platform portfolio and market messaging. Futurum’s Ron Westfall unpacks the nuances of these updates including how the HPE Ezmeral updates target the data scientists, developers, and IT decision makers with the comprehensive orchestrated Kubernetes (K8) management platform required to accelerate application development innovation and scale AI/ML and data-intensive workloads throughout hybrid and multi-cloud environments. What’s ahead? Ron believes that it’s time for K8 management platform market pace setters VMware and IBM/Red Hat to heed and specifically counter the burgeoning HPE Ezmeral proposition.
Sevis Systems’ Trusted Caller ID solution aims to restore enterprise control over broken mobile caller ID experiences. Futurum’s Olivier Blanchard walks through Sevis’ Systems new offering and its value proposition of helping enterprises not only achieve significant operating cost savings within their contact centers, but also potentially deliver better customer experiences. “90% of unrecognized calls go unanswered, which is a serious operational problem for businesses (and especially enterprise-sized businesses) that need to get in touch with their customers. At best, the public’s reluctance to answer unidentified calls causes the number of call attempts made by enterprises to increase considerably, along with customer service costs. At worst, enterprises end up failing to contact their customers in a timely manner, resulting in poor brand experiences and lower customer satisfaction.”
Qualcomm, AMD, and Gigabyte break the PetaOperations per second barrier for AI inference — which is a lot of AI muscle. With AI increasingly becoming the driving force behind the next generation of consumer experiences, this is exciting news.

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