... Gartner First Takes Fresh insights on emerging trends IT leaders should view Microsoft’s latest Copilot app as more than a simple product update. The new user experience converges chat, delegated work, application creation and Office content editing. Microsoft is positioning Copilot as a primary work ...
Analyst(s): Larry Cannell | Max Goss
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... Gartner First Takes Fresh insights on emerging trends CIOs and software engineering leaders should use internal developer platforms to control distribution and updates of components with access to source code following Cursor’s Claude Code marketplace breach. Although Cursor says Anthropic did not create ...
Analyst(s): Tigran Egiazarov | Dionisio Zumerle | Deacon D.K Wan
... Gartner First Takes Fresh insights on emerging trends Heads of IT procurement must assess their commitment strategy as Anthropic’s S-1 signals a likely shift to incentivize longer-term contracts and lock-in. Preserve flexibility, negotiate protections and require sign-off on shorter-term or consumption ...
Analyst(s): Rajib Gupta | Melanie Alexander | Ray Valdes | Mike Tucciarone | Adam Woodyer | Arun Chandrasekaran | Zach Nagle | Bill Ryan | Jo Liversidge
... Gartner First Takes Fresh insights on emerging trends I&O leaders who meet the U.K. government’s proposed Data Centre Covenant standards will be able to secure additional data center capacity. However, data center operators must uphold several commitments to earn this support, such as investing in local ...
Analyst(s): Autumn Stanish | Ed Anderson | Tony Harvey | Stephen White | Paul Wang | Stuart Downes
... Gartner First Takes Fresh insights on emerging trends CPOs must treat energy infrastructure and supplier origin as strategic sourcing risks in light of the White House executive order 14420 on bulk-power system security. They should expand supply risk management to include power, grid, and geopolitical ...
Analyst(s): Cheryl Van Dyke | Mark Jaggers | Will Sommer | Vikas Bhardwaj | Katarzyna Fonteyn
... Gartner First Takes Fresh insights on emerging trends Sales leaders should not revise technology roadmaps around Claudeforce. Its 37 prebuilt sales skills package largely existing Salesforce-Claude capabilities into a jointly managed experience intended to accelerate onboarding and adoption. Treat pilot ...
Analyst(s): Steve Rietberg | Christopher Gamble | Dan Gottlieb | Paul Vignati | Adnan Zijadic | Wendy Butler-Mafuz
... Gartner First Takes Fresh insights on emerging trends CIOs should treat claims that Astra has achieved artificial general intelligence as hype grounded in real progress. Focus on the capabilities behind the claims, including autonomous reasoning, causal world models and effective action in executable ...
Analyst(s): Shiva Varma | Pieter den Hamer | Philip Walsh | Frank Buytendijk
... Gartner First Takes Fresh insights on emerging trends CISOs must focus less on vendors’ intelligence claims and more on managing the access, autonomy and cybersecurity risks of increasingly capable AI systems. Recent announcements from OpenAI (GPT-6 Astra), CrowdStrike/NVIDIA (SafeMind), and Microsoft ...
Analyst(s): John Watts | Travis Lee | Christopher Mixter | Sam Olyaei | Meghan Hollis | Ramon Krikken
... Gartner First Takes Fresh insights on emerging trends Heads of I&O should seriously evaluate Proxmox as a potential alternative in the server virtualization platform market, as 24/7 enterprise support and North American expansion address key adoption barriers. Assess if Proxmox’s support maturity meets ...
Analyst(s): Fintan Quinn | Tony Harvey | Vishesh Divya