Futurum lead analyst Shelly Kramer covers news of Oracle’s pending acquisition of Cerner Corp for $28.3 billion and why the healthcare data business is a smart move for the software giant as it seeks to broaden its footprint in the cloud space and compete more effectively against AWS, Microsoft, Google Cloud and others.
Xerox Announces Multi-Year Deal with Oracle
Futurum’s principal analyst Daniel Newman breaks down the news of the Xerox-Oracle multi-year deal, offering insights on what this will mean for both companies.
Kyndryl Viewpointe Win to Accelerate IT Modernization With Move to Azure Showcases Partnership Strategy
Futurum Research Senior Analyst, Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements coming out of Kyndryl on its multi-year relationship refresh with Viewpointe. The announcement from recently NYSE listed Kyndryl highlights the company’s ecosystem and strategic partnership focus evidenced by a shift to the Microsoft Azure stack.
ServiceNow and EY Expand Strategic Partnership to Transform Tax Services for Digital Age
Futurum’s principal analyst Daniel Newman explores the expanded partnership between ServiceNow and EY and how together they will streamline complex enterprise operations.
IBM Launches IBM Z and Cloud Modernization Center in its Continued Focus on Mainframe Modernization
Futurum Research Senior Analyst, Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements coming out of IBM focused on the mainframe platform. With customers increasingly facing tough choices as they look to either modernize or re-platform mainframe applications, IBM is looking to better inform key decision makers with a curated portal to provide relevant information to the C-Suite, architects and developers.
Qualcomm and Google Cloud Collaborate on Neural Architecture Search (NAS) to Power Connected Intelligent Edge
Futurum Senior Analyst Olivier Blanchard highlights the just-announced Qualcomm-Google Cloud partnership aimed at accelerating neural network development for the connected intelligent edge. Blanchard explains how the partnership, which focuses on neural architecture search and brings Google Cloud’s Vertex AI NAS to Qualcomm’s powerful new Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 mobile platform, is expected to scale to high-growth mobile-adjacent segments like IoT, Automotive, and XR, essentially representing a significant forward leap in the development of the next fundamental technology layer: the connected intelligent edge. Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 platform is the first SOC to do this.
Red Hat Brings Ansible Automation Platform to Microsoft Azure
Futurum Research Senior Analyst, Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements coming out of Red Hat around the availability of Ansible Automation Platform on Microsoft Azure. As the pressures grow on IT teams to manage more with less increasingly automation of repetitive tasks is a go to options. The Ansible platform is proving a vital tool in the ability for IT teams to keep up and the release of this functionality on Microsoft’s Azure platform increased deployment options for customers.
Insights From Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Tech Summit – Part 1: How Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Signals an AI Inflection Point for The Premium Mobile Tier
Futurum Senior Analyst Olivier Blanchard shares insights and observations from Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Tech Summit. In the first of several pieces that will focus on individual Snapdragon Tech Summit announcements, Blanchard outlines how Qualcomm’s new premium Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 mobile SOC plays into the company’s broader intelligent connected edge ambitions and highlights the paradigm shift that it represents with regard to new benchmarks of performance, particularly regarding AI.
Five9’s Virtual Voiceover Brings Self-Service Experience to Life with Synthetic Voices
Futurum lead analyst Shelly Kramer covers Five9’s launch of its Virtual Voiceover offering, a new capability that will bring self-service experiences to life with synthetic voices, and provides insight on how this kind of technology will quite likely revolutionize the contact center.
C3 AI Wins $500M Department of Defense Contract, Further Validating Strong Vision
Futurum’s Daniel Newman covers C3 AI’s win of a $500 Million Department of Defense contract. The new agreement will allow an accelerated timeline for any DoD agency to acquire C3 AI’s suite of enterprise AI products for modelling and simulation.
