Press ReleaseAI Decision Intelligence: The Category That Replaces Legacy ResearchFuturum CEO, Daniel Newman, shares that Futurum Forward is the first platform purpose-built for the AI enterprise cycle. Replacing legacy research, it combines a proprietary data spine with a productized operator model for real-time intelligence.Daniel Newman·July 1, 2026
Press ReleaseFuturum and Kearney Reveal CEOs’ Readiness for AI Transformation in Landmark StudyDion Hinchcliffe, Vice President of CIO Practice; Daniel Newman, CEO; and Tiffani Bova, Chief Strategy and Research Officer of the Futurum Group and Ben Smith, Partner & Global Lead, Digital & Analytics; Ramyani Basu, Partner & Global Lead, Data & AI; Bharath Thota, Partner, Data & AI; Khalid Khan…January 21, 2025
Press ReleaseFuturum Group Enters Definitive Agreement to Acquire Aptiviti Inc., Parent of Enterprise Technology Research (ETR), Bringing Wall Street’s Premier Predictive Data into its Futurum Intelligence Platform™Futurum Group, a leading technology advisory, research, and intelligence firm, today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Aptiviti, Inc., the parent company of Enterprise Technology Research (ETR).Daniel Newman·May 27, 2026
Press ReleaseEightco ($ORBS) and Futurum Group Announce Strategic Partnership to Launch Futurum ORBS Trust and Authentication Platform (FOTAP)Companies announce the industry’s first AI Trust & Authentication scoring system Partnership combines ORBS’ authentication infrastructure with Futurum’s proprietary AI market intelligence and trust solutions to establish new standard for evaluating AI vendors Eightco is is supported by a group of…January 26, 2026
Press ReleaseFuturum Group’s Equities Research Expands Market Commentary with Sell-Side Analysis, Stock PicksFuturum Equities, The Futurum Group’s equities research arm, announced today that it will begin highlighting select stock ideas and market insights as part of its expanded coverage for retail investors, business, and financial audiences.August 27, 2025
Press ReleaseInaugural Futurum Signal Report Reveals Elite Companies Spearheading Through Innovation, Powerful Go-to-Market Execution in Highly Competitive MarketFuturum 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.August 20, 2025
Press Release46.9% of Enterprises Report AI Spend Over Budget in 2H 2026Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead, CIO and Technology Buyers at Futurum, reveals that 46.9% of enterprises are running AI spend over budget, and traces how the overrun is funded by cutting external labor, in a survey of 1,636 IT decision makers.Mitch Ashley·September 10, 2026
Press ReleaseAutomotive Grows to $56.6B by CY2030, Anchoring Edge Silicon’s Structural CertaintyOlivier Blanchard, Research Director at Futurum, notes automotive grows across all three scenarios to $56.6B base by CY2030, anchoring structural certainty in the edge silicon market.Olivier Blanchard·August 31, 2026
Press ReleaseAutonomy Over Analytics: The Read-Write Decree Rewiring Enterprise Data PlatformsBrad 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.Brad Shimmin·August 28, 2026
Press ReleasePartner Growth Polarization: 51.5% Expect Strong GainsPartner 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 finds.Alex Smith·August 28, 2026
Press Release62% of Data Center Semiconductor Buyers Take 4 or More Months to First Production Token61.8% 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.Brendan Burke·August 27, 2026
Press ReleaseNaaS and Cloud Networking to Add $36B by 2031, as 62% of Enterprises Move NaaS Into Production or EvaluationFuturum 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 in production, evaluation, or planned evaluation.Tom Hollingsworth·August 24, 2026
Press ReleaseAutonomous Agents Rewrite the Rules for Data Intelligence PlatformsBrad 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.Brad Shimmin·August 24, 2026
Press ReleaseAWS and the End of the Naive Agent: Collapsing the Semantic DivideBrad 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 systems with the mathematical truth they desperately need.Brad Shimmin·August 19, 2026
Press ReleaseEnterprise Applications Market Set to Reach $1.1T by CY2031 as 57.7% of Buyers Prefer Consumption or Outcome Pricing for GenAI Add-OnsFuturum Research’s 2H 2026 Enterprise Applications Market Sizing & Five-Year Forecast projects the market at $1.1T by CY2031, while its Decision Maker Survey (N=833) finds 57.7% of buyers prefer consumption or outcome pricing for GenAI add-ons.Keith Kirkpatrick·August 13, 2026
Press ReleaseCharting the Rise of the Revenue-Driven Data Team: ‘New Business Opportunities’ Become the Fastest-Growing Priority for 2026Futurum’s Brad Shimmin, VP of Data Intelligence, Analytics & Infrastructure, notes a shift in 1H 2026: building AI capabilities (-5.6 pts) and trust in data (-6.5 pts) fell as top data team objectives, while execution goals surged.Brad Shimmin·August 10, 2026
Press ReleaseRisk Management Tops Cyber Budget Drivers as Modernization Falls 11 PointsFernando Montenegro, VP & Practice Lead at Futurum, on why risk management strategy (47.8%) has overtaken modernization as the top cybersecurity budget driver, with modernization down 11 points.Fernando Montenegro·August 7, 2026
Press ReleaseInference Climbs to 71.7% of AI Platforms Infrastructure Spend by 2030Nick Patience, VP & AI Practice Lead at Futurum, notes Managed inference hit 58.6% of AI platforms infrastructure in CY2025 and scales to 71.7% by CY2030, structurally inverting the 74/26 training split of CY2022.Nick Patience·August 6, 2026
Press ReleaseSoftware Lifecycle Engineering Market to Reach $226 Billion by 2030 as Enterprise Hands AI the Keyboard Before the GuardrailsFuturum’s 2H 2026 Software Lifecycle Engineering research sizes the market at $226 billion by 2030 and finds AI now runs the majority of the software lifecycle, while 75% of organizations report AI-contributed production incidents.Mitch Ashley·July 13, 2026
Press ReleaseThe Age of Agentic Silicon: Data Center Chip Market to Reach $1.2 Trillion by 2030Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares findings from new research showing the data center semiconductor market surging to $1.2 trillion by 2030, as agentic AI inference reaches 45% of all chip revenue and reshapes vendor roadmaps.Brendan Burke·July 6, 2026
Press ReleaseThe Hard(er) Challenge in Agent Governance Is AuthorizationFernando Montenegro, VP at Futurum, argues that the launch of the Agent Control Standard does not close the agent governance gap, and that “shrinkage,” not universal coverage, is the correct target as platform economics drive fragmentation.Fernando Montenegro·June 26, 2026
Press ReleaseOperations and Workflow Hits 43.1% CAGR to $92.2B by CY2030 as the Fastest-Growing AI Platforms Use CaseNick Patience, VP & AI Practice Lead at Futurum, notes Operations & Workflow leads AI use cases with a 43.1% CAGR, hitting $92.2B by CY2030 as agentic AI drives production orchestration.Nick Patience·June 25, 2026
Press ReleaseBuyers Are Trading Up: 80% More Likely to Buy AI PCs as Traditional PCs Stall at 47%Enterprise buyers are trading up: 80% of IT decision makers are more likely to buy AI PCs than six months ago, versus 47% for traditional PCs, with budgets growing 18.8%, according to Futurum’s 1H 2026 survey of 818 global enterprises.Olivier Blanchard·June 23, 2026
Press ReleaseGenAI Workflow Benefit Drops 6pts as Docs, Automation, and Code Gains RiseBrad Shimmin, VP & Practice Lead of Data Intelligence, Analytics & Infrastructure, reveals GenAI workflow efficiency fell 6.0 points as a perceived benefit, while measurable tasks like documentation (+4.9), automation (+3.8), and code (+3.2) gained.Brad Shimmin·June 18, 2026
Press ReleaseEnterprises Maintain 56% Build-In-House Preference Despite SaaS StrengthsFuturum’s Keith Kirkpatrick finds 56% of enterprises still prefer to build in-house, virtually unchanged year-over-year, yet SaaS vendors retain structural advantages in workflows, security, and integrations that internal teams cannot replicate.Keith Kirkpatrick·June 17, 2026
Press ReleaseFuturum Signal: Google and AWS Reach Elite Tier in AI Cloud Platforms as the Competitive Bar RisesNick Patience, VP & AI Practice Lead at Futurum, reveals key findings: Google and AWS reach Elite status in the new Futurum Signal report, defined by proprietary silicon, inference economics, and advanced agentic infrastructure capabilities.Nick Patience·June 15, 2026