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The Context Bottleneck- Where AI Buyers Struggle, the Market Accelerates
September 30, 2026

The Context Bottleneck: Where AI Buyers Struggle, the Market Accelerates

Labeling is the only AI data challenge still rising, up to 40.5%, while the Semantic & Context Layer leads every year of Futurum's DIAI forecast, peaking at 29.0%. Buyers and...

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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....
Partner Growth Polarization 51.5% Expect Strong Gains
August 28, 2026

Partner Growth Polarization: 51.5% Expect Strong Gains

Partner growth polarization is splitting the technology channel in 2026: 51.5% of partners now expect strong growth while the moderate middle collapses and the flat-or-declining group quadruples, The Futurum Group...
62% of Data Center Semiconductor Buyers Take 4 or More Months to First Production Token
August 27, 2026

62% of Data Center Semiconductor Buyers Take 4 or More Months to First Production Token

61.8% of data center semiconductor buyers take 4+ months to first production token. 35.2% now benchmark on tokens per watt as the primary productivity metric....
NaaS and Cloud Networking to Add $36B by 2031, as 62% of Enterprises Move NaaS Into Production or Evaluation
August 24, 2026

NaaS and Cloud Networking to Add $36B by 2031, as 62% of Enterprises Move NaaS Into Production or Evaluation

Futurum Research’s 2H 2026 Networking Market Sizing & Five-Year Forecast projects the global market at $354.9B by CY2031, while its Decision Maker Survey (N=800) finds 62% of enterprises have NaaS...
Autonomous Agents Rewrite the Rules for Data Intelligence Platforms
August 24, 2026

Autonomous Agents Rewrite the Rules for Data Intelligence 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....
AWS and the End of the Naive Agent Collapsing the Semantic Divide
August 19, 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...

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