Research notes and analysis from the Futurum practice areas.
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Brad Shimmin, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, analyzes how VAST DataEnclave leverages NVIDIA Confidential Computing to manage proprietary AI models and sensitive data as unified operating system resources.
Nick Patience, VP & Practice Lead for AI Platforms at Futurum, examines DataRobot’s Chevron and Aon deployments and asks whether its agent workforce platform strategy is built to last.
Persistent Systems secures 83.25% of Nagarro SE in voluntary takeover, combining European engineering talent with AI consulting capabilities as channel partners drive demand for custom application development and AI services.
Impetus Technologies launches Forward Builders, formalizing two years of AI expertise with context engineering and a single-owner model to accelerate agentic AI systems to production.
Wayve and Mercedes-Benz will integrate Wayve AI Driver into premium vehicles within two years, marking the first generalized AI driving system in luxury cars and establishing Wayve as a scalable AI infrastructure provider.
Norwegian Block Exchange signs with Tieto Banktech to offer digital and physical Visa payment cards for stablecoin users, marking a significant step toward mainstream adoption of digital assets in everyday spending.
Abridge won a $775.72M VA contract to deploy ambient AI across 75+ medical centers, validating its position as a leading clinician intelligence platform.
Adyen's partnership with Danish fintech unicorn Flatpay positions the payment giant as the financial infrastructure backbone for SMB embedded finance across seven European markets, addressing critical integration and time-to-value priorities.
FTI Consulting appoints energy veteran Eileen Fargis to lead its Power, Renewables & Energy Transition practice, signaling the critical intersection of AI infrastructure growth and power grid constraints as a core advisory competency.
Adobe and Jet2 announced a multi-year strategic partnership deploying Agentic AI to personalize holiday experiences for 10 million myJet2 customers, establishing a co-innovation Customer Experience Lab with forward-deployed Adobe engineers.
Fernando Montenegro, VP at Futurum, analyzes Splunk .conf26, where Cisco made trust and cost the gate on the agentic SOC and positioned the data and control layer beneath the agents as the thing worth owning.
Keith Kirkpatrick, VP, Research, Enterprise Software & Digital Workflows at Futurum, argues that Koa’s real defense isn’t the model Salesforce built, but the CRM training data behind it.
Brad Shimmin, industry analyst at The Futurum Group, analyzes how Salesforce and NVIDIA designed the Koa CRM reasoning model to solve inference economics and defend platform data gravity.
Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares insights on Anderon's finalized $1 billion CHIPS award and whether its quantum wafer manufacturing can build a customer base beyond its parent, IBM.
Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares insights from AI Infra Summit 2026, where power-capped data centers pushed vendors toward optics, near-memory silicon, and physical AI ahead of a 2028 co-packaged optics ramp.
Tieto secures major 13-hospital contract in Norway to deploy Public 360° cloud platform for case and records management, reflecting growing demand for AI-native healthcare solutions in public-sector modernization.
Exprivia's Q2 2026 threat report reveals record AI-driven cyberattacks on Italian organizations, as cybersecurity becomes a top revenue driver for global channel partners.
Lititz Mutual Insurance uses Guidewire ProNavigator's conversational AI to enhance underwriting and claims workflows, helping agents access institutional knowledge while tackling onboarding and retention challenges in P&C insurance.
Everforth ECS secured a prime position on the CPSC's $58M Data Solutions BPA and captured the first $1.7M task order, positioning the Fairfax-based firm as a key player in federal civilian data modernization, cloud engineering, and AI/ML enablement.
Wiz's MCP-powered agent integrations let partner AI agents access live security context during investigations, positioning the company at the forefront of AI-driven security innovation in a market forecast to reach $337.8B by 2029.