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AI Platforms
The Futurum AI Platforms research agenda for 2026 focuses on the critical shift from experimental AI to the deployment of industrial-scale, resilient, and autonomous systems. This transition, which is moving the market’s focus from general-purpose chatbots to agentic applications, represents a significant inflection point for enterprises, vendors, and investors.
Analysts covering AI Platforms
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Alex Smith
GM, Futurum Research, VP & Practice Lead, Ecosystems, Channels, & Marketplaces
Brad Shimmin
Vice President & Practice Lead, Data Intelligence, Analytics, & Infrastructure
Fernando Montenegro
Vice President & Practice Lead, Cybersecurity & Resilience
Guy Currier
Chief Analyst, Visible Impact & Research Director, Ecosystems, Channels, & Marketplaces
Keith Kirkpatrick
Vice President & Research Director, Enterprise Software & Digital Workflows
Mitch Ashley
Vice President & Practice Lead, CIO & Technology Buyers, and Software Lifecycle Engineering
Nick Patience
Vice President & Practice Lead, AI Platforms
Olivier Blanchard
Research Director & Practice Lead, Intelligent Devices
Latest insights
All AI Platforms insightsVAST DataEnclave Unifies Proprietary Models and Sensitive Enterprise Data
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.
Inside DataRobot’s Enterprise Agentic Strategy
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.
Can 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.
Wayve Lands Mercedes-Benz: Embodied AI Enters Premium Auto
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 Wins VA Ambient AI Contract: Federal Scale Validated
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 Lands Jet2 to Prove Agentic CX at Scale
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.
Salesforce’s Real Moat Behind Koa Is Its CRM Training Data
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.
Salesforce Bets on Silicon Synergy and Metadata to Make Business AI Practical
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.
AI Infra Summit 2026 – Can Optics Break the AI Power Wall by 2028?
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.
AI Fuels Record Cyberattacks in Italy, and a Channel Opportunity
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 Bets on Embedded AI to Solve the Agent Knowledge Gap
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.
Wiz Bets on MCP to Make WIN the AI Security Integration Layer
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.
Research Reports
All AI Platforms reportsFrom Pilots to Production: Why Agentic AI Runs Through the Ecosystem
In its latest report, From Pilots to Production: Why Agentic Transformation Runs Through the Ecosystem, published in partnership with Google Cloud, Futurum Research examines why enterprise AI spending keeps climbing while production and measured ROI lag behind, and why closing that gap runs through…
Elevate AI Agent Quality With Active, Intelligent Context
In its latest blueprint, Elevate AI Agent Quality with Active, Intelligent Context: How Informatica Plugin grounds Claude reasoning in trusted data, completed in partnership with Salesforce, Futurum Research examines why context blindness is the leading barrier to production-ready agentic AI, and…
The Token Cost Reckoning Arrives in the CFO’s Office
In our latest thought leadership brief, The Token Cost Reckoning Arrives in the CFO’s Office, completed in partnership with Google Cloud, Futurum Research examines how enterprises can track cost per successful agent run and cut token spend before their next budget review.
The Platform Payoff: How AI Makes the Case for a Unified Enterprise Stack
In our latest thought leadership brief, The Platform Payoff: How AI Makes the Case for a Unified Enterprise Stack , completed in partnership with Salesforce, Futurum Research examines why enterprise buyers are consolidating fragmented AI tools into unified platforms, and what that shift means for…
Escaping Data Gravity and Infrastructure Debt: Why the AI Era Demands an Agentic Data Cloud
In its latest report, Escaping Data Gravity and Infrastructure Debt , completed in partnership with Google Cloud, Futurum Research examines how decoupled data architectures are driving up costs and operational overhead for enterprise AI, and how a natively integrated, serverless data cloud helps…
Operationalizing Autonomous AI: Architecting the Agentic Enterprise on a Converged Data Foundation
In its latest report, Operationalizing Autonomous AI: Architecting the Agentic Enterprise on a Converged Data Foundation, completed in partnership with Snowflake, Futurum Research examines why enterprises must move beyond bolted-on AI applications and adopt a natively governed, multi-cloud data…