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HCLTech's Partnership with OpenAI: A Strategic Move for Enterprise AI Scaling
August 8, 2026

HCLTech’s Partnership with OpenAI: A Strategic Move for Enterprise AI Scaling

HCLTech's designation as an OpenAI Advanced Partner positions the GSI to help enterprises deploy secure, scalable AI solutions at scale. The move reflects OpenAI's strategy to rely on Global Systems...
nCino's Mortgage MCP: A Major shift for Lenders in AI Integration
August 8, 2026

nCino’s Mortgage MCP: A Major shift for Lenders in AI Integration

nCino launches Mortgage MCP, integrating AI agents into mortgage workflows. With 86.6% of buyers prioritizing autonomous agents, this addresses critical enterprise demand for agentic AI....
Motive's Unstoppable Momentum: What It Means for Fleet Management
August 8, 2026

Motive’s Unstoppable Momentum: What It Means for Fleet Management

Motive has secured the #1 ranking on G2's Momentum Grid for Fleet Management for eight consecutive quarters, positioning itself as the fastest-growing challenger disrupting the supply chain software market dominated...
Agentic AI
August 7, 2026

Salesforce’s Agentic Enterprise Index: A Paradigm Shift in AI Deployment

Keith Kirkpatrick, Vice President & Research Director, Enterprise Software & Di at Futurum, analyzes Salesforce's Agentic AI deployment trends showing organizations tripling active agents and reducing creation times by 53%,...
growth strategy
August 7, 2026

Freshworks Bets on FedRAMP to Crack the $102 Billion Federal IT Market

Keith Kirkpatrick, Vice President & Research Director, Enterprise Software & Di at Futurum, Freshworks' FedRAMP 'In Process' designation enables it to capture federal IT market share through its AI-powered Freshservice...
NVIDIA AI Storage
August 7, 2026

NVIDIA AI Storage Goes Open at FMS 2026. Is Open Source the New Moat?

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, examines NVIDIA's FMS 2026 storage push and whether openness extends NVIDIA's platform control to the data path....
Samsung zHBM
August 7, 2026

Samsung zHBM Stacks Memory on the GPU. Has HBM Run Out of Beachfront?

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on Samsung zHBM, the FMS 2026 concept that stacks memory directly on AI accelerators, and on whether V10 BV-NAND and HBM4E...
AMD Acquires Taalas to Advance AI Workload Optimization
August 7, 2026

AMD Acquires Taalas to Advance AI Workload Optimization

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on AMD's Taalas acquisition and why the two-month model-to-silicon design flow, arriving alongside agentic EDA, is the asset that matters....
Adobe's ChatGPT Plugin Bets the Creative Suite on Conversational AI
August 7, 2026

Adobe’s ChatGPT Plugin Bets the Creative Suite on Conversational AI

Keith Kirkpatrick, Vice President & Research Director, Enterprise Software & Di at Futurum, examines how Adobe's ChatGPT plugin integrates 70+ creative tools into conversational AI, opening new distribution channels while...
Active Storage Takes Over AWS DynamoDB Adds Native Vector Search for Agentic AI
August 7, 2026

Active Storage Takes Over: AWS DynamoDB Adds Native Vector Search for Agentic AI

Brad Shimmin, VP at Futurum, analyzes the launch of native vector search in AWS DynamoDB. By embedding semantic retrieval directly into its serverless operational database, AWS eliminates fragile AI data...
Pega's FedRAMP Expansion A Major Shift for Government Digital Transformation
August 7, 2026

Pega’s FedRAMP Expansion: A Major Shift for Government Digital Transformation?

Futurum's Keith Kirkpatrick examines Pega's FedRAMP Class D expansion in Pega Cloud for Government and how it measures up against competitors in the marketplace....
IonQ Q2 FY 2026 Tempo Quantum Computers Drive Growth Ahead of SkyWater Integration
August 7, 2026

IonQ Q2 FY 2026: Tempo Quantum Computers Drive Growth Ahead of SkyWater Integration

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, analyzes IonQ’s Q2 FY 2026 earnings, focusing on quantum platform growth, SkyWater integration, security demand, and raised FY 2026 guidance....

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