Company news from The Futurum Group, and the research announcements that go out with new Futurum Intelligence data.
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Futurum’s Keith Kirkpatrick finds enterprise buyers prefer consumption-based pricing for GenAI at 42.9%, while rejecting it for core software, a pricing bifurcation reshaping vendor strategy among 830 IT decision-makers.
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.
Mitch Ashley, VP Practice Lead at Futurum, shares new survey data showing that enterprise observability budgets of $1M-plus have doubled year over year, signaling the observability-native shift is moving from principle to procurement reality.
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.
Alex Smith at Futurum shares insights on the transformation of the enterprise technology marketplace into a complex ecosystem of Hyperscaler, SaaS, Agentic/LLM, and Distributor archetypes, reshaping software procurement.
Dion Hinchcliffe explains how CIOs are shifting AI into R&D and product innovation, signaling a major move from productivity gains toward building new enterprise capabilities and competitive advantage.
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.
Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, reveals that ~65% of semiconductor decision-makers plan to adopt optical computing, with quantum accelerators and neuromorphic chips also gaining traction.
Fernando Montenegro, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, shares insights on new research revealing that sophisticated threats and skills shortages are the primary challenges hindering SOC and risk management efficiency.
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%.
Brad Shimmin, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, explores the release of the OSI v0.1 specification and why a standardized semantic layer is the non-negotiable foundation for driving 300% more accurate agentic AI.
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.
Brendan Burke, Nick Patience, and Olivier Blanchard, Analysts at Futurum, share their insights on how the power generation gap for AI data centers is forcing a permanent shift to off-grid power and high-efficiency hardware to sustain the AI infrastructure sprint.
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.
Futurum’s Dion Hinchcliffe finds CIO AI priorities pivoting from productivity to innovation as desired AI outcomes shift dramatically and pilot-stage adoption collapses 31.2 pts across three quarterly CIO survey waves.
Futurum survey of 400 channel partners finds channel partner co-sell demand surged to #1 vendor priority while training collapsed to last, as portfolio competitiveness anxiety doubled.
Fernando Montenegro shares insights on new research revealing that cybersecurity buyers overwhelmingly prioritize operational integration over total cost of ownership when choosing security platforms.
Mitch Ashley, VP & Software Lifecycle Engineering practice lead at Futurum, shares new research showing enterprises are prioritizing AI agent observability before agents are deployed at scale, outranking distributed tracing and AIOps in procurement priorities.
Fernando Montenegro at Futurum explores how the rise of AI factories mandates a shift toward hardware-enforced security and validated reference architectures to protect intelligence workloads without degrading GPU performance.