Market CoveragePersistent Lands Nagarro: A Channel-Ready AI Services PlayPersistent 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.September 23, 2026
Market CoverageCan One Role Fix Enterprise AI's Broken Delivery Chain?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.September 23, 2026
Market CoverageStablecoin Meets Mainstream: NBX Taps Tieto Banktech for Card InfrastructureNorwegian 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.September 23, 2026
Market CoverageAbridge Wins VA Ambient AI Contract: Federal Scale ValidatedAbridge won a $775.72M VA contract to deploy ambient AI across 75+ medical centers, validating its position as a leading clinician intelligence platform.September 23, 2026
Market CoverageAdyen Bets on SMB Embedded Finance With Flatpay PartnershipAdyen'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.September 23, 2026
Market CoverageAdobe Lands Jet2 to Prove Agentic CX at ScaleAdobe 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.Keith Kirkpatrick·September 22, 2026
Analyst InsightSalesforce’s Real Moat Behind Koa Is Its CRM Training DataKeith 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.Keith Kirkpatrick·September 22, 2026
EventsSalesforce Bets on Silicon Synergy and Metadata to Make Business AI PracticalBrad 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.Brad Shimmin·September 22, 2026
Market CoverageTieto Wins 13-Hospital Norway Deal as SLE Market Eyes $344BTieto 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.September 22, 2026
Market CoverageLititz Mutual Bets on Embedded AI to Solve the Agent Knowledge GapLititz 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.September 22, 2026
Market CoverageEverforth ECS Lands $58M CPSC Data BPA: Federal AI Readiness on the LineEverforth 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.September 22, 2026
Market CoverageFastly Bets the Edge on AI Governance as Machine Traffic Tops 50%Fastly's new AI Runtime Control, AI Firewall, and API Security capabilities address enterprise security urgency as machine-generated traffic crosses 50% on its network, with AI traffic growing 6.5x faster than human traffic.September 22, 2026
Market CoverageSoftcat Buys GDT: A Transatlantic Platform PlaySoftcat's acquisition of Dallas-based GDT instantly creates a scaled, multi-geography platform positioned to compete for enterprise demand across AI, cybersecurity, and data centre modernisation.September 22, 2026
Market CoverageHubSpot Bets the Platform on Growth ContextKeith Kirkpatrick, Vice President, Research, at Futurum, HubSpot's Fall 2026 Spotlight release introduces Growth Context, an AI-native framework positioning the company as a CRM leader for SMB and mid-market teams.Keith Kirkpatrick·September 21, 2026
Market CoverageStratpoint's Cloud Award Signals Rising Regional Partner StakesStratpoint Technologies won the Philippines Technology Excellence Award for Cloud Services at the Asian Technology Excellence Awards 2026, establishing itself as a trusted regional leader for cloud and AI-integrated enterprise solutions.September 21, 2026
Market CoverageComarch's People-First AI Bet: Thought Leadership or Market Edge?Comarch strengthens its thought leadership position by contributing to Poland's AI ecosystem conversation through RzeczpospolitAI publication and demonstrating people-first AI transformation philosophy via its four-level AI Academy program.September 21, 2026
Market CoverageCodeRabbit Triage: Fixing the PR Inbox That Cries WolfCodeRabbit launched Triage on September 18, 2026, using AI-assisted scoring to automatically prioritize pull requests—addressing a critical pain point for the 46.8% of organizations targeting software engineering as a top generative AI use case.September 20, 2026
Market CoverageSalesforce and Google Cloud Expand Access to CRM WorkflowsKeith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group, examines Salesforce’s Google Cloud expansion and the tests ahead for enterprise workflows and commerce.Keith Kirkpatrick·September 18, 2026
Market CoveragePyTorch Day Japan Brings Open-Source AI to TokyoPyTorch Day Japan 2026 convenes ML engineers and AI researchers in Tokyo on December 10 to explore sovereign AI development, open-source inference, and enterprise adoption.September 18, 2026
Market CoverageThales HexaForce: Can Sovereign AI C2 Capture NATO's Next Wave?Thales launched HexaForce, an AI-enhanced command and control system validated at NATO CWIX 2026, positioning the company to capture growing allied defense spending on interoperable security solutions.September 18, 2026