
Keith Kirkpatrick
Vice President & Research Director, Enterprise Software & Digital Workflows
Where to place bets and how to position, decided on live data rather than last quarter's report.
See where a market is actually going, prove your position in it, and arm sales with evidence a buyer did not write.
1,000+ vendors continuously scored — yours already has a position and a forecast
You have been scored by a firm that never spoke to you, and the next window to correct it is eleven months away.
Each one has an instrument that answers it, and an analyst accountable for the answer.
AI platforms, category leader composite
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The instruments above are products. This is where each one is described, priced and bought.
Continuous, forward-looking vendor scoring. Agentic AI does the scanning, Futurum analysts set the framework and hold the pen.
The full dataset behind the research: market sizing, five-year forecasts, buyer survey data and AI synthesis. Filter it, chart it, export it.
A defensible ROI study CFOs accept. Thousands of modelled scenarios, five categories of business impact, a range instead of one flattering number.
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.
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.
The order a technology vendor usually takes these in. Each step stands on its own, and each is worth more with the one before it.
Continuous, forward-looking vendor scoring. Agentic AI does the scanning, Futurum analysts set the framework and hold the pen.
The full dataset behind the research: market sizing, five-year forecasts, buyer survey data and AI synthesis. Filter it, chart it, export it.
A defensible ROI study CFOs accept. Thousands of modelled scenarios, five categories of business impact, a range instead of one flattering number.
Signal65 puts the product on the bench and publishes what it measured. Third-party proof for a performance claim you need buyers to believe.
Surveys, AI-moderated voice interviews and analyst-led interviews, on top of data we already hold. Brief, report or full study.
Video, podcasts, field days, webinars and campaign assets through Six Five Media, Techstrong, Tech Field Day and VisibleImpact.
Bring the decision. We will show you what Futurum can see, with the analyst in the room.