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Autonomy Over Analytics The Read-Write Decree Rewiring Enterprise Data Platforms
August 28, 2026

Autonomy Over Analytics: The Read-Write Decree Rewiring Enterprise Data Platforms

Brad Shimmin, VP & Practice Lead at Futurum, reveals findings from the new Data Intelligence Platforms Signal report, highlighting how read-write AI agents and transactional execution realigned competitive market standings....
NXP Tech Days Can Physical AI Reference Designs Solidify the Neural Axis
August 28, 2026

NXP Tech Days: Can Physical AI Reference Designs Solidify the Neural Axis?

Brendan Burke and Olivier Blanchard, Research Directors at Futurum, share their insights from NXP Tech Days Silicon Valley, where reference designs from humanoid hands to a four-board MCX A5 networking...
Does the New ERP Platform “Signal” Get the Market Right
August 26, 2026

Does the New ERP Platform “Signal” Get the Market Right?

Keith Kirkpatrick, VP & Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on how Futurum's new ERP Platform “Signal” stacks up against his own year of SAP, Microsoft, Oracle, and NetSuite...
August 26, 2026

ERP Platforms – Futurum Signal

The ERP Platforms market is undergoing its most significant architectural shift since the move to the cloud, as enterprise resource planning evolves from a static system of record into a...
Why AI Learned to Attack Before It Learned to Defend
August 24, 2026

Why AI Learned to Attack Before It Learned to Defend

Fernando Montenegro, VP & Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on how offensive AI succeeds because it's easier to verify than defensive security, shifting the need for vendors to...
AI Implementation Is the New Account Control Point
August 20, 2026

AI Implementation Is the New Account Control Point

Mitch Ashley, VP & Practice Lead at Futurum, shares insights on how AI implementation is the new account control point. Read more on how hyperscalers are reorganizing to capture distributed...
The 1.6TbE Transition Will Reshape Data Center Architecture from the Ground Up
August 19, 2026

The 1.6TbE Transition Will Reshape Data Center Architecture from the Ground Up

Tom Hollingsworth, Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on the 1.6TbE transition, highlighting that it's a massive architectural shift requiring data centers to rethink topology, power, and cooling to...
August 19, 2026

Data Intelligence Platforms – Futurum Signal

The Data Intelligence Platform market is undergoing its most consequential shift since the move to cloud data warehousing, as enterprise AI matures from read-only copilots into read-write autonomous agents that...
AWS and the End of the Naive Agent- Collapsing the Semantic Divide
August 18, 2026

AWS and the End of the Naive Agent: Collapsing the Semantic Divide

Brad Shimmin, Vice President and Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on how AWS Context moves beyond basic RAG to deliver a governed, open-format knowledge graph that provides autonomous...
Runaway Token Costs Are Killing the Frontier AI Monolith
August 18, 2026

Runaway Token Costs Are Killing the Frontier AI Monolith

Futurum analyst Brad Shimmin breaks down the economic breaking point of cloud APIs and why enterprise AI is shifting to highly quantized, sovereign open-weights models....
The Pricing Split: Why Core Software and AI Can't Share One Commercial Model
August 17, 2026

The Pricing Split: Why Core Software and AI Can’t Share One Commercial Model

Keith Kirkpatrick, VP & Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on why enterprise buyers are rejecting per-seat pricing for core software, while simultaneously demanding it for AI, forcing vendors...
Terrestrial Data Centers Are Getting Expensive Enough to Make Space Cheap
August 17, 2026

Terrestrial Data Centers Are Getting Expensive Enough to Make Space Cheap

Futurum’s Brendan Burke on why a third of the $3 trillion AI data center buildout goes off-grid by 2030, and what launch, satellite hardware, and solar density must do before...

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