
Keith Kirkpatrick
Vice President & Research Director, Enterprise Software & Digital Workflows
What to buy, when, and from whom, with the evidence to defend the decision to the board.
Evaluate the vendors in front of you against evidence none of them commissioned, while the decision is still live.
ETR's panel of more than 10,000 technology leaders, and fifteen years of longitudinal spending data
Three vendors have shown you three different market-leader charts, all of which they commissioned.
Each one has an instrument that answers it, and an analyst accountable for the answer.
AI platforms, Net Score, last 8 surveys
61up 4 pts
The instruments above are products. This is where each one is described, priced and bought.
The full dataset behind the research: market sizing, five-year forecasts, buyer survey data and AI synthesis. Filter it, chart it, export it.
Continuous, forward-looking vendor scoring. Agentic AI does the scanning, Futurum analysts set the framework and hold the pen.
Inquiry, briefings, earnings coverage and the published research agenda. Analyst time, not just analyst output.
Signal65 puts the product on the bench and publishes what it measured. Third-party proof for a performance claim you need buyers to believe.
The analysts below are the ones who actually publish in them.

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Published work in these practice areas, newest first.
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.
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.
Abridge won a $775.72M VA contract to deploy ambient AI across 75+ medical centers, validating its position as a leading clinician intelligence platform.
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.
The order a buyer usually takes these in, with a live decision on the desk rather than a category to learn.
The full dataset behind the research: market sizing, five-year forecasts, buyer survey data and AI synthesis. Filter it, chart it, export it.
Analyst-grade synthesis over Futurum's data. Cited, analyst-verified, and honest about where the data stops.
Inquiry, briefings, earnings coverage and the published research agenda. Analyst time, not just analyst output.
Continuous, forward-looking vendor scoring. Agentic AI does the scanning, Futurum analysts set the framework and hold the pen.
Signal65 puts the product on the bench and publishes what it measured. Third-party proof for a performance claim you need buyers to believe.
Bring the decision. We will show you what Futurum can see, with the analyst in the room.