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Splunk Goes All in on AI: New Innovations to Enhance Security, Customer Experience, and Visibility
July 21, 2023

Splunk Goes All in on AI: New Innovations to Enhance Security, Customer Experience, and Visibility

The Futurum Group VP & Practice Leader Steven Dickens offers his take on the latest news from Splunk. Splunk recently announced significant updates and a strategic shift toward AI during...
Microsoft Takes ‘AIM’ at On-Premises Customers
July 21, 2023

Microsoft Takes ‘AIM’ at On-Premises Customers

Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group, covers Microsoft’s announcement of AIM, and discusses how this program should help the company drive long-term relationships with customers....
Oracle MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse Delivering a New Competitive Level Set for Cloud Data Warehouse
July 21, 2023

Oracle MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse: Delivering a New Competitive Level Set for Cloud Data Warehouse

The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall examines why the latest release of MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse delivers record performance and breakthrough innovation in cloud data warehouse for loading data from object store,...
IBM Q2 Earnings Beats EPS Estimates, Just Misses on Revenue of $15.48B
July 21, 2023

IBM Q2 Earnings Beats EPS Estimates, Just Misses on Revenue of $15.48B

Daniel Newman and Todd R. Weiss of The Futurum Group share their insights as IBM’s Q2 earnings beat EPS estimates, just missing on analyst revenue estimates, as the company launches...
Splunk Innovations All-Up for 2023: Six Five On the Road at .conf23
July 21, 2023

Splunk Innovations All-Up for 2023: Six Five On the Road at .conf23

On this episode of The Six Five – On The Road, hosts Daniel Newman and Patrick Moorhead welcome Splunk’s CEO Gary Steele, live from .conf23 in Las Vegas to discuss...
Generative AI Investment Accelerating: $1.3 Billion for LLM Inflection
July 20, 2023

Generative AI Investment Accelerating: $1.3 Billion for LLM Inflection

Mark Beccue, Research Director at The Futurum Group, examines the $1.3 billion investment in LLM provider Inflection, and the transaction’s implications for the industry. The Inflection funding marks a significant...
WalkMe’s Digital Adoption Platform Helps Remove EX Friction Points
July 20, 2023

WalkMe’s Digital Adoption Platform Helps Remove EX Friction Points

Sherril Hanson, Senior Analyst at The Futurum Group, breaks down a demo of WalkMe’s platform, focusing on the benefits it provides for employees....
UK AI Regulations Criticized A cautionary tale for AI Safety
July 20, 2023

UK AI Regulations Criticized: A Cautionary Tale for AI Safety

Mark Beccue, Research Director at The Futurum Group, examines a new Ada Lovelace Institute report that reveals the challenge to balancing pro-business AI wishes with pro-consumer AI protections. The piece...
watsonx.ai Leverages Foundation Models to Accelerate AI Application Development
July 19, 2023

watsonx.ai Leverages Foundation Models to Accelerate AI Application Development

Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group covers the general availability of watsonx, including watsonx.ai, which should help enterprises developing AI applications deploy them more quickly and efficiently, improving...
Not Nothing Nothing 2 Powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 SoC
July 19, 2023

Not Nothing: Nothing 2 Powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 SoC

The Futurum Group Industry Analyst, Michael Diamond looks at the recently announced Nothing 2 smartphone, powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+1 Gen 1 premium tier mobile platform, offering its users...
Infor Announces Ask ChatGPT Widget Using OpenAI APIs
July 19, 2023

Infor Announces Ask ChatGPT Widget Using OpenAI APIs

Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group, covers Infor’s announcement of Ask ChatGPT, a widget that allows users to easily build generative AI prompts via information held within Infor...

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