AI Is Everywhere. Who Can Actually Deliver?
Futurum Group, Saturday, September 26th, 2026
Futurum Group finds most enterprises expect bigger AI budgets but still can't measure returns or reach maturity.
This Futurum Group LinkedIn Pulse post finds enterprise AI adoption accelerating, with 89% of buyers reporting ties to Anthropic's Claude and 79% to Microsoft 365 Copilot.
Yet execution lags: 92% of AI decision-makers expect budget growth, but only 18.5% rate their AI maturity above the midpoint, and nearly half cannot measure ROI.
The piece argues competitive advantage is shifting from model ownership to reliable, governable deployment, requiring integration into business processes, governance, and change management.
It names vendors tackling business-context grounding (HubSpot, SAP, Teradata), security and trust (VAST Data, Lattice, Splunk), and infrastructure (Cadence, TSMC, Marvell, Google).