Market CoverageSCSK Bets on Vertical AI Agents to Crack Japan's Real Estate MarketSCSK unveiled its Real Estate Industry AI Agent Set on September 18, 2026, delivering pre-built, vertically packaged AI solutions for sales brokerage, rental management, and leasing workflows across 50+ enterprise clients.September 18, 2026
Market CoverageSierra's AIUC-1 Certification Sets a New Bar for Agentic AI TrustSierra achieves AIUC-1 certification, the first standard purpose-built for AI agent behavior. Independent audit and adversarial testing validate reliability and security for regulated industries.September 18, 2026
Market CoverageHCLTech Pulse Targets the $400B Mid-Market GapHCLTech launched Pulse on September 17, 2026, targeting mid-market enterprises ($500M–$5B revenue) with integrated AI, cybersecurity, cloud, and managed services to address a $400 billion market gap.September 18, 2026
Market CoverageCan Claude for Financial Advisors Meet Practice-Specific Needs?Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group shares insights on Claude for Financial Advisors, workflow integration, and the evidence needed to establish advisor productivity gains.Keith Kirkpatrick·September 17, 2026
Market CoverageCan AWS and Salesforce Turn Connected Data Into Better Execution?Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group shares insights on AWS and Salesforce’s expanded integrations and the tests that matter for enterprise adoption.Keith Kirkpatrick·September 17, 2026
Market CoverageCan Samsung and Verizon Make Network Sensing Useful for Venues?Tom Hollingsworth, Networking Technology Advisor and Event Lead at Futurum, shares insights on Samsung and Verizon’s network sensing trial and its implications for venue operations.Tom Hollingsworth·September 17, 2026
Market CoverageSword Wins Splunk EMEA Partner Award as AI Services Demand SurgesSword won the 2026 Splunk EMEA Services Partner of the Year award for innovation and AI-powered digital resilience, positioning it to capture significant market share amid surging demand for AI consulting services.September 17, 2026
Market CoverageRuder Finn Wins Three AOR Mandates as Integrated Brand Demand AcceleratesRuder Finn's Brand Experience practice has been named Agency of Record for Carter's, Sweet Loren's, and Vytalogy Wellness, signaling accelerating demand for integrated brand strategy partners with AI-powered capabilities.September 17, 2026
Market CoverageFour Straight: What phData's dbt Streak Reveals About AI ReadinessphData earns its fourth consecutive dbt Visionary Partner of the Year award, demonstrating practice-wide commitment to analytics engineering and data governance as the foundation for enterprise AI readiness and scalable transformation.September 17, 2026
Market CoverageWhen AI Agents Cheat: What the OpenAI Incident Means for Channel PartnersThe July 2026 OpenAI AI agent security incident—where 700+ agents self-organized across test environments—reveals critical governance lessons for channel partners entering the $41.8B AI consulting market.September 17, 2026
Market CoverageAMD MLPerf Inference 6.1 Results Show ROCm Gaining 38% on the Same MI355X HardwareBrendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on AMD's MLPerf Inference 6.1 results and why ROCm's measured rate of improvement under a six-week release cadence is now AMD's most important competitive number.Brendan Burke·September 16, 2026
EventsAIforce Turns Salesforce Into an Everywhere Intelligence LayerSalesforce's AIforce platform delivers CRM data, workflows, and governance to any AI interface, positioning Everywhere Intelligence Layer as the next interface revolution for enterprises seeking faster time-to-value.Keith Kirkpatrick·September 16, 2026
Market CoverageExprivia Bets on Deepfake Detection to Win AI-Security DealsExprivia's alliance with identifAI brings specialized deepfake detection capabilities to high-stakes verticals including banking, healthcare, and public administration, capitalizing on explosive growth in AI software and cybersecurity channels.September 16, 2026
Market CoverageEY: Supply Chain AI Has a Deployment ProblemEY's 2026 report reveals a critical gap: 94% of supply chain executives are transforming with AI, yet only 9% have embedded changes operationally, and just 37% report measurable impact despite increased spending.September 16, 2026
Market CoverageCodeRabbit Triage: Scoring PR Queues for the Agentic EraCodeRabbit launched Triage on September 15, 2026, introducing Agentic Change Management to solve the bottleneck of AI-generated code overwhelming engineering teams. The P0–P3 scoring system transforms flat FIFO queues into intelligent prioritization.September 16, 2026
Market CoverageBain's Refiner AI Playbook Is a Channel Wake-Up CallBain & Company's 2026 resilience playbook shows AI-driven margin gains of $2–$3 per barrel for refiners, while 86.7% of channel partners expect AI consulting to drive growth, marking AI's shift from advisory add-on to operational necessity.September 16, 2026
Market CoverageRubrik's MCP Launch Bets on Agentic AI as Cyber Resilience's Next LayerRubrik announced MCP support powered by Claude, enabling enterprise AI agents secure access to Rubrik Security Cloud for machine-speed incident response.September 16, 2026
Market CoverageAlteryx and Golden Analytics Unite Governance With AI-Native AnalyticsAlteryx and Golden Analytics partner to combine governed data workflows with AI-native analytics, targeting enterprise demand for generative AI tools in the booming Data Intelligence market.September 16, 2026
Market CoverageCan Kinaxis Close the AI-to-Action Gap in Supply Chain?Kinaxis addresses the persistent enterprise challenge where only 12% of supply chain leaders consider themselves AI leaders. At Kinexions EMEA 2026, the company showcases how its Maestro platform and agentic AI capabilities deliver operational.September 16, 2026
Market CoverageArm's Agentic Moat Widens With CSS for Mobile 2, CSS N4, and Physical AIBrendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, analyzes how Arm's Agentic AI strategy is expanding by launching CSS for Mobile 2, Neoverse CSS N4, and Arm Total Design for robotics.Brendan Burke·September 15, 2026