Insight Type: Research Note

Steven Dickens, Chief Technology Advisor from the Futurum Group, highlights IBM's strategic use of AI in enhancing the sports experience, emphasizing the balance between small and large models as demonstrated by the versatile Granite family. He underscores the significance of IBM's open-source approach in democratizing AI innovation and addressing the practical needs of enterprises.
Solution Provides an Open Approach to CRM Integration
Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director with The Futurum Group, covers the general availability of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Contact Center, and discusses the features and potential impact of the solution on the CCaaS market.
New Suite of Premium Capabilities Enabling Management of Work at Scale
Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director, Enterprise Applications, explores how Smartsheet Advance transforms enterprise work management with enhanced efficiency and security. The new suite of premium capabilities addresses the challenges of managing complex workflows and ensuring data security and compliance.
Combating Retinopathy of Prematurity via Technology
Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director, Enterprise Applications, reports on how SAP and CleaVision's innovative AI technology prevents infant blindness in India. This partnership leverages machine learning to enhance early diagnosis and treatment, particularly in regions with limited medical resources.
Google Cloud Platform Presentation Covering Running Enterprise Applications on GCP With Hardware Offload for Efficient Performance
Alastair Cooke, CTO Advisor at The Futurum Group, shares his insights on the Titanium architecture and hardware offload for efficient performance in the Google Cloud. Customers get more CPU for their code and less overhead from the infrastructure.
Over recent months, Steven Dickens, Chief Technology Advisor, has observed significant investments in sovereign cloud deployments by major hyperscalers such as Oracle, AWS, and IBM. This trend is driven by a fractious geopolitical landscape where data sovereignty and regulatory compliance have emerged as critical concerns for governments and enterprises, particularly in regions with stringent data protection laws like the EU.
Oracle HeatWave GenAI Meets the Clarion Call from Customers to Build Generative AI Applications Without Data Movement, AI Expertise, or Extra Cost
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Steven Dickens assess why Oracle has done vector processing right with the HeatWave GenAI debut by delivering crystal clear price performance advantages against the competition including relentless vector processing performance that is 30X faster than Snowflake, 18X faster than Google BigQuery, and 15X faster than Databricks, at up to 6X lower cost.
Steven Dickens, Chief Technology Advisor, highlights the strategic importance of Teradata's partnership with Google Cloud in providing robust AI solutions that drive enterprise efficiency and innovation. He emphasizes the potential of this collaboration to enhance business outcomes by leveraging advanced AI technologies and seamless data integration.
Olivier Blanchard, Research Director at The Futurum Group, shares his notes about Apple’s recent AI partnership announcements and rumors, and frames how disruption of the competitive landscape in the Mobile and PC segments by next-gen on-device AI capabilities may have blindsided the tech giant.
Suite Focuses on Helping Healthcare Organizations Drive Efficiency and Compliance
Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director with The Futurum Group, covers NetSuite SuiteSuccess Healthcare Edition, a new solution from the ERP vendor focused on enabling greater efficiency and easier compliance with healthcare regulations.
The Futurum Group Chief Technology Advisor, Keith Townsend examines HPE’s entry into the data center hypervisor space and if the solution is mature enough to replace VMware by Broadcom’s market leading solution.

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