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Balancing Innovation and Control in Enterprise Data Strategy

Enterprise data is the lifeblood of business. No endeavor, whether a simple order-to-cash process or a complex, agentic AI solution, can survive without timely access to accurate, high-quality, secure, and governed data. Given these high stakes, companies are understandably torn between innovation and governance.

This is reflected in the markets covered by Futurum, which range from stalking new ideas such as real-time data integration and orchestration tools to exploring the re-invention of traditional business intelligence (BI) at the hands of Generative AI (GenAI).

Specifically, Futurum tracks the modern data intelligence platform marketplace, covering both converged and best-of-breed databases, data management and orchestration products, DataOps practices and tools, insight-oriented data infrastructure, and visualization and analytics solutions—all powered by and built to empower AI innovation.

When working on strategy, product, marketing, and sales initiatives, consider intelligence from our expert analysts – planned deliverables for 2025 include:

  • Market Data – bi-annual market sizing & five-year forecast (2x year)
  • Buyer Survey – bi-annual IT Decision Maker survey (2x year) 
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  • State of the Market – a quarterly report on technology, markets, products, and vendors (once per quarter)
  • Market Landscape – an annual report on product segments and representative vendors, deployment types, buying personas, and use cases (once annually)
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The Latest Insights On Data Intelligence, Analytics, & Infrastructure

Five Key Reasons Why Confluent Is Strategic To IBM

Five Key Reasons Why Confluent Is Strategic To IBM

Brad Shimmin and Mitch Ashley at Futurum, share their insights on IBM’s $11B acquisition of Confluent. This bold move signals [...]
SAP and Snowflake Redefine Enterprise Data for AI Is Your ETL Strategy Already Obsolete

SAP and Snowflake Redefine Enterprise Data for AI: Is Your ETL Strategy Already Obsolete?

Brad Shimmin, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, breaks down the SAP and Snowflake partnership. This isn't just an integration; [...]
Oracle AI World 2025 Is the Database the Center of the AI Universe Again

Oracle AI World 2025: Is the Database the Center of the AI Universe Again?

Brad Shimmin, analyst at Futurum digs into Oracle AI World 2025, where the new Oracle AI Database 26ai and Autonomous [...]
IBM TechXchange 2025: The Real Headliner is Data, Not AI

IBM TechXchange 2025: The Real Headliner is Data, Not AI

Brad at Futurum looks at IBM TechXchange 2025 and uncovers a strategic pivot from AI hype to the foundational challenge [...]
Cloudera EVOLVE25 While the Market Chased Cloud-Native Deployments, Cloudera Built the Hybrid Endgame

Cloudera EVOLVE25: While the Market Chased Cloud-Native Deployments, Cloudera Built the Hybrid Endgame

Brad Shimmin, Principal Analyst at Futurum, analyzes Cloudera's new hybrid multi-cloud fabric. At EVOLVE25, the company declared a hybrid endgame, [...]
Neo4j GraphSummit The OG (Original Graph) Database Player Makes a Bold Play for the Future of AI

Neo4j GraphSummit: The OG (Original Graph) Database Player Makes a Bold Play for the Future of AI

Brad Shimmin, Analyst at Futurum, shares insights on Neo4j's Infinigraph, its bold bet on becoming the data layer for agentic [...]

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The Semantic Layer Wars Why BI Must Remain the Center of Gravity for Trusted AI
December 22, 2025

The Semantic Layer Wars: Why BI Must Remain the Center of Gravity for Trusted AI

Brad Shimmin explains why the semantic layer is moving from dashboards to AI reasoning engines. Learn why BI teams are the essential Insight Engineers tasked with stopping AI hallucinations through...
Is Conversational Analytics in Looker the Tipping Point for Enterprise BI
November 18, 2025

Is Conversational Analytics in Looker the Tipping Point for Enterprise BI?

Brad Shimmin, industry analyst at Futurum, shares his insights on Google's GA of Conversational Analytics in Looker, a strategic move to defend traditional BI by grounding Gemini's power in a...
Is Open Semantic Interchange the Ceasefire AI Needs to Deliver Value?
October 10, 2025

Is Open Semantic Interchange the Treaty AI Needs to Deliver Value?

Brad Shimmin, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on the new Open Semantic Interchange (OSI), a vendor-led standard aimed at fixing the data fragmentation that stalls enterprise...
New Futurum Survey Shows Enterprise Demand for an AI-Ready Data
September 23, 2025

New Futurum Survey Shows Enterprise Demand for an AI-Ready Data

New survey: The enterprise AI mandate is here, but poor data quality is the #1 obstacle. See why leaders now invest in foundational data quality and availability to ensure ROI....
Inaugural Futurum Signal Report Reveals Elite Companies Spearheading Through Innovation, Powerful Go-to-Market Execution in Highly Competitive Market
August 20, 2025

Inaugural Futurum Signal Report Reveals Elite Companies Spearheading Through Innovation, Powerful Go-to-Market Execution in Highly Competitive Market

Futurum Group, an influential leader in research, intelligence, media, and advisory, serving the technology industry, today unveiled its first Futurum Signal report, generated by its forward-looking predictive evaluation platform....
July 16, 2025

Pure Storage Pure//Accelerate: Looking to Upgrade Enterprise Data Management for the AI Era

Brad Shimmin, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on Pure Storage's new Enterprise Data Cloud (EDC). The platform aims to unify enterprise data management and accelerate AI...

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