Brad Shimmin

1 month ago | futurumgroup.com | Keith Kirkpatrick |Brad Shimmin

Analyst(s): Keith Kirkpatrick, Brad ShimminPublication Date: May 27, 2025Salesforce announced in late May that it had signed an agreement to acquire Informatica, a data management vendor with roots in IT, financial services, retail, and manufacturing. What is Covered in this Article:Salesforce will acquire Informatica for approximately $8 billion in equity value (net of Salesforce’s existing investment), paying $25 cash per share to holders of Class A and Class B-1 common stock.

1 month ago | futurumgroup.com | Keith Kirkpatrick |Brad Shimmin

Analyst(s): Keith Kirkpatrick, Brad ShimminPublication Date: May 23, 2025What is Covered in this Article:SAP highlighted its messaging around an AI-driven user experience—Joule—backed by an AI Foundation in the Business Technology Platform. This includes embedding Joule and specialized AI agents (e.g., finance accruals, expense validation, shop-floor supervision) across SAP and third-party apps, plus tooling like Prompt Optimizer and Joule Studio for easy customization and governance.

1 month ago | futurumgroup.com | Nick Patience |Brad Shimmin

Analyst(s): Nick Patience, Brad ShimminPublication Date: May 9, 2025What is Covered in this Article:IBM extended its watsonx.orechstrate offering to enable further the responsible development, orchestration, and adoption of AI agents. Enhancing its support for unstructured data in supporting agentic AI development, IBM introduced several new watsonx.data integration and semantic search capabilities.