http://www.currentanalysis.com/ Analysis Reports provided by Current Analysis, Inc. en-us All materials Copyright 1997-2026 Current Analysis, Inc. Reproduction or distribution prohibited without express written consent. Sat, 30 May 2026 15:37:24 GMT http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132975&rss FinOps is seeing a giant shift in 2026 from managing AI costs to implementing full adoption of AI into the FinOps practice to be more productive. In this blog, GlobalData anticipates key themes during the upcoming FinOps X conference. Charlotte Dunlap 2026-05-29T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=94675&rss SAP is throwing its weight behind agentic AI investments and solutions, consolidating all its major platforms to better support enterprises’ mission-critical workflows. Charlotte Dunlap 2026-05-22T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=94609&rss IBM's ongoing agentic AI activities include enhancements to Cloud Pak for Integration, infrastructure automation/observability via Instana, and code companions to transform legacy coding. Charlotte Dunlap 2026-04-13T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=94513&rss Microsoft Azure's primary focus continues to focus on its GenAI initiative, Microsoft Foundry, most recently complemented by new Copilot Agents and access to Anthropic Claude in addition to OpenAI GPT. Charlotte Dunlap 2026-04-13T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=94606&rss Red Hat OpenShift, serving as the core of IBM's hybrid cloud and GenAI initiatives via Red Hat OpenShift AI, continues its focus on deep AI integration. Charlotte Dunlap 2026-04-13T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132628&rss GlobalData provides a comprehensive view of the quarter’s key GenAI news including the announcements that Google is making a grab for Amazon’s e-commerce dominance and Anthropic’s Claude Code could modernize legacy programming language COBOL. Charlotte Dunlap - Beatriz Valle 2026-03-02T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132532&rss 2026 will be the year that satellite connectivity breaks out from niche to mainstream, the intensifying of this new space race, and telcos ramping up satellite connectivity to serve SMBs and enterprises that can benefit from satellite use cases. Ismail Patel 2026-02-02T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132524&rss Observability predictions for 2026 include disruptive dev-tools start-ups adding observability features to solutions, and AI-injected app deployment platforms targeting ops teams. Charlotte Dunlap 2026-01-29T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132518&rss 2026 will be the year of “efficiency”. Small language models (SLMs) will gain relevance as enterprises leverage AI for domain- and industry-specific use cases. Running SLMs locally helps address privacy, data security, and compliance concerns. Beatriz Valle - Rena Bhattacharyya 2026-01-28T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132472&rss Investment in new data centers will continue to accelerate in 2026, with hyperscalers pouring money into new projects. Server densities will soar to support AI workloads, making new designs and energy management a top concern. Beatriz Valle 2026-01-07T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=124187&rss Within the DevOps space, recent innovations help illustrate AWS’s commitment to operational simplicity across both serverless and Kubernetes container orchestration paradigms via Lambda and EKS. Charlotte Dunlap 2025-12-30T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=123700&rss A flurry of new partnerships helps Google demonstrate how its PaaS and AI model interoperates with other popular platforms, e.g., AWS, Salesforce and OCI. Charlotte Dunlap 2025-12-30T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132446&rss ServiceNow is buying Israel-based vendor Armis in a bid to expand its IT/OT security portfolio. The aim is to create a unified platform to govern and manage AI across the enterprise, and to protect the enterprise from AI-driven attacks. Amy Larsen DeCarlo - Charlotte Dunlap 2025-12-23T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=94514&rss Oracle's evolving app development innovations include high-productivity agentic AI tools, pre-configured templates, and consoles within OCI, bringing AI to each layer of the cloud stack, including database, applications, and analytics technology. Charlotte Dunlap 2025-12-16T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132395&rss Themes from fall technology conferences included agentic AI integrations and ecosystem partnerships/acquisitions to fill tech gaps. Of greatest interest to enterprise developers were new OSS innovation reveals. Charlotte Dunlap 2025-12-12T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132385&rss The industry’s adoption of agentic AI for streamlining the application lifecycle will be largely realized through OSS innovations, while platform vendors jockey for key partnerships to fill tech gaps. Charlotte Dunlap 2025-12-10T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132211&rss Agentic AI-injected services across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) are helping shift the company’s messaging to one of outcomes versus products, while Oracle readies the release of a new automation/low-code tool, APEXLang. Charlotte Dunlap 2025-10-21T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132113&rss GlobalData provides a comprehensive view of the quarter’s key GenAI news from the perspective of vibe coding, to massive investments in 10 GW data centers, and the work of AI data center operators to web crawl content creators. Charlotte Dunlap - Beatriz Valle 2025-09-24T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=101815&rss PaaS services, which address DevOps concerns via automation, low-code, and observability are now emphasizing optimization of platforms through AI agent advancements to ease the development/deployment of modern apps. Charlotte Dunlap 2025-08-18T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131979&rss Following a string of recent AI partnerships, NTT Data is joining forces with Google Cloud to address enterprises’ app modernization challenges with shared agentic AI frameworks, tools, and integration services. Charlotte Dunlap - Robert Pritchard 2025-08-15T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131971&rss In response to OpenAI’s highly anticipated release, ChatGPT-5, Anthropic had its own stunning news to report: $1 Claude AI subscriptions for the US government, giving Anthropic a major leg-up in the ongoing AI wars. Charlotte Dunlap 2025-08-14T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131908&rss US-China geopolitical tensions are highlighting a number of opportunities, challenges, and commercial considerations for buyers across the value chain inside the Middle East and Africa region, ranging from government, telcos, and AI firms. Ismail Patel 2025-07-30T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=122930&rss Traditional low-code providers are demonstrating the importance of the UX to support the emerging AI agent space as they enhance AI assistant tools to address a new agentic era. Charlotte Dunlap 2025-07-29T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131902&rss For Middle East and Africa region, US-China geopolitical tensions are highlighting a number of opportunities, challenges, and commercial considerations for vendors of all geographies, and not just those in the US and China. Ismail Patel 2025-07-28T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131891&rss For the Middle East and Africa region, US-China geopolitical tensions are highlighting a number of opportunities, challenges, and commercial considerations for vendors of all geographies, and not just those in the US and China. Ismail Patel 2025-07-24T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131786&rss The first agentic-injected tools are now generally available, and developers are pinning high hopes on taking app modernization to new heights. Charlotte Dunlap 2025-06-27T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131775&rss AI agents promise to transform the process of application development by significantly easing the burden to enterprise developers who have been bogged down under modernization complexities. Charlotte Dunlap 2025-06-26T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131773&rss Sino-American geopolitical tensions mean tech ecosystem competition is evolving into ground zero. Nowhere is this more pronounced than in the Gulf States. But any tech strategy for MEA must also consider Africa, a key growth region. Ismail Patel 2025-06-26T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131761&rss Sino-American geopolitical tensions mean tech ecosystem competition is evolving into ground zero. Nowhere is this more pronounced than in the Gulf States in the Middle East, which have garnered special attention from the two tech superpowers. Ismail Patel 2025-06-24T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131685&rss Vendors are going after enterprise developers with early roll outs of AI agents. Agentic technology brings DevOps teams the promise of greatly reducing complex operational provisioning which has stalled app modernization efforts for years. Charlotte Dunlap 2025-06-06T00:00:00+01:00