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Clint Wheelock, Chief Research Officer at The Futurum Group, examines the recent announcement by Qualcomm Technologies that its Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Mobile Platform for Galaxy is now powering the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5 and Galaxy Z Flip5, along with Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 Series devices.
Google Earnings Provide Insights Into Cloud Growth
The Futurum Group analysts Daniel Newman and Steven Dickens share their insights on Q2 earnings from Alphabet, parent company of Google. Alphabet's Q2 earnings surpassed expectations, driven by strong advertising and Google Cloud growth. The company reported a substantial increase in YouTube ads revenue and a record operating income for Google Cloud, indicating a positive trajectory for future growth. Additionally, CEO Sundar Pichai highlighted the growing adoption of generative AI among startups, signaling a promising trend for AI adoption and revenue growth for the Google Cloud Platform in the future.
The Futurum Group analysts Daniel Newman and Todd R. Weiss examine ServiceNow’s increase in revenue during Q2 2023 to $2.15 billion, beating estimates, as the cloud digital workflow automation software vendor announced its latest earnings on July 26. ServiceNow is bringing powerful new generative AI features to its offerings, which will be a big lever of growth for ServiceNow as customers seek these new capabilities.
SaaS Giant Unveils Pay Now, Snapchat for Commerce, Reorder Portal, and Order Support Features to Enable the Efficient Creation of Purchasing Experiences Across Channels
Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group, covers Salesforce’s enhancements to its Commerce Cloud offering, which include support for in-channel purchasing experiences, AI-driven reordering tools, AI-powered service-to-commerce tools, and the ability to create Snapchat ads on the platform, and discusses how these tools can drive additional revenue.
Knowledge Automation and Enhanced Digital Capabilities Integrations Are Offered
Sherril Hanson, Senior Analyst at The Futurum Group, reviews the latest partnership announcement from eGain, an integration with Talkdesk that will offer knowledge and digital capabilities to support agent productivity and workflow and provide a better customer experience.
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall assesses why the formation of the Network Resilience Coalition can advance improvements in the updating of hardware and software on a more consistent and systematic basis on a global basis, including supporting organizations in attaining the end-to-end visibility key to bolstering network hardware and software resilience that can advance overall cybersecurity capabilities across their networks.
The Futurum Group analyst Todd R. Weiss looks at how Arm is fighting the semiconductor skills shortage with a new education alliance that aims to find and train the next generations of skilled semiconductor workers. The Alliance brings together Arm and its partners and stakeholders from industry, education, and government to broaden the pool of workers amid a shortage of skilled labor.
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Clint Wheelock examine the impact AI is having throughout the 5G ecosystem addressing Qualcomm’s view that the future of AI is hybrid with 5G Advanced making AI integral to 5G innovation, why Nokia’s new AI-infused AirScale portfolio boosts its O-RAN and Cloud RAN proposition and 5G Advanced readiness, and NVIDIA and Softbank’s collaboration on a platform for generative AI and 5G/6G apps based on the NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip.
Mediapolis Savings Bank and Salem Five Bank Go Live at Launch of Instant Payment Rail via Fiserv
Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group, focuses on the recent announcement by Fiserv on the launch of FedNow, the Federal Reserve’s instant payment service, and discusses the benefits of real-time payments for customers, businesses, and payment processors.
Randy Kerns, Senior Strategist at The Futurum Group, examines Teradata’s acquisition of Stemma, a startup with Data Catalog software used to coordinate access to different sources of data, and provides insights on market implications as capabilities required for Data Platforms continue to expand.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall and Clint Wheelock explore how chipmakers are powering innovation across the 5G ecosystem sharing their views on how Juniper and Intel working together on Juniper’s Beyond Labs initiative can foster and accelerate ecosystem-wide 5G transformation.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall and Clint Wheelock explore how chipmakers are powering innovation across the 5G ecosystem including Qualcomm’s advocacy of operators accelerating their 5G Standalone implementations to swiftly broaden developer support as well as spur 5G application innovation.
