Company news from The Futurum Group, and the research announcements that go out with new Futurum Intelligence data.
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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.
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.
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 systems with the mathematical truth they desperately need.
Fernando 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.
Nick 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.
Brad Shimmin at Futurum shares his insights on how the shift to autonomous, read-write AI agents is forcing legacy databases to evolve. Discover why strong consistency, multi-tiered memory, and speculative branching are the new mandatory benchmarks.
Dion Hinchcliffe examines which vendors are emerging as the operational control planes for enterprise agentic AI, and why orchestration, governance, and interoperability now define market leadership.
Futurum Research’s 1H 2026 AI platforms market forecast finds a $109.9B market on a base-case path to $496.9B by 2030 (35.2% CAGR), with even the bear scenario more than tripling to $358B as inference overtakes training and agentic operations scales.
Mitch Ashley, VP Practice Lead at Futurum, examines the Agent Control Plane Framework, defining the five-layer governance architecture enterprises need to deploy AI agents safely at production scale.
Brad Shimmin, VP & Practice Lead at Futurum, reveals that nearly 59% of organizations are directing incremental budget toward semantic layers as accuracy concerns dominate AI trust.
Olivier Blanchard, Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on why the reported 28% reduction in employee onboarding time compared to legacy hardware, thanks to AI PCs, is a critical element of the AI PC ROI story.
Futurum survey of 820 global enterprise AI decision-makers finds that enterprise AI maturity correlates more strongly with dedicated AI leadership than with model selection — Stage 5 firms are 3x more likely to have a CAIO.
Futurum’s Keith Kirkpatrick reveals agentic AI surged 31.5% year-over-year as the fastest-growing enterprise technology priority among 830 IT decision-makers, with combined top-two rankings reaching 39.3%.
Keith Kirkpatrick, VP and Research Director at Futurum, covers Salesforce’s introduction of agentic work units (AWUs), and shares his insights on how this ties into the larger trend of outcomes supplanting consumption as a pricing strategy for agentic AI.
Brad Shimmin, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, explores IBM’s shift toward agentic autonomy. He analyzes how the new Db2 Genius Hub uses intent-driven reasoning to eliminate the “maintenance tax” for data professionals.
Brad Shimmin, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, details why the Semantic Layer is projected to double its growth to 30% by 2031, becoming the critical “dictionary” that prevents Agentic AI from hallucinating business metrics.
Dion Hinchcliffe explains how CIOs are consolidating enterprise platforms around agentic AI, control planes, and cloud convergence as AI agents move from experimentation to execution in 2026.
Futurum’s Keith Kirkpatrick reveals enterprise AI ROI measurement is shifting from productivity to P&L impact, while agentic AI surged 31.5% as the fastest-growing technology priority among 830 IT decision makers.
Keith Kirkpatrick, VP and Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights into the various approaches to delivering AI by SaaS vendors, and discusses which ones will drive ROI the fastest.
Futurum’s Keith Kirkpatrick reveals a structural reset in enterprise software, forecasting the market to reach $762.1B by 2031 (12.2% CAGR) as budgets pivot from Systems of Record to AI-driven Systems of Agency.