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AIM Research benchmarks AI, data and cloud vendors on market penetration and technology maturity, and has published the PeMa Quadrant since 2018. Start with a shortlist built from that evidence.

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Microsoft▲

Sep 28

Data + AI Platform Providers

Microsoft ships Fabric IQ in Copilot and new Fabric agents at FabCon Barcelona

At FabCon and SQLCon in Barcelona, Microsoft made Fabric IQ generally available in Copilot Chat and Cowork, so business definitions from Power BI semantic models inform Copilot answers. It also previewed a Fabric data engineering agent, IQ sharing in OneLake, Fabric observability and Database Hub, and made BigQuery mirroring and DiskANN vector indexes generally available.

Buyer takeawayFabric customers can ground Copilot and agents in governed semantic models today, while most agent features remain in preview and need careful evaluation before production use.

Ema▲

Sep 24

Agentic AI Platform Providers

Ema raises $77 million Series B led by Creaegis to scale its AI employee platform

Ema closed a $77 million Series B round led by Bengaluru-based Creaegis, with Accel, S32 and Prosus also participating. The company says total funding now stands near $140 million. It plans to use the capital to build out go-to-market teams and expand into APAC and EMEA, and cites Wipro, Hitachi and NTT Data as customers of its agent platform.

Buyer takeawayBuyers evaluating Ema gain more confidence in its funding runway and should expect broader regional sales and support coverage in APAC and EMEA.

Evalueserve▲

Sep 21

Data Engineering Service Providers

Evalueserve partners with Databricks and launches lakehouse accelerators

Evalueserve announced a partnership with Databricks aimed at speeding data and AI programmes for enterprise clients. It released three accelerators on the platform: a private credit intelligence lakehouse for underwriting and covenant monitoring, a reusable data quality framework, and a metadata-driven generator for warehouse models. The work draws on Databricks governance and analytics tooling, with no partner tier disclosed.

Buyer takeawayBuyers running Databricks, especially in financial services, gain a domain-led option with packaged accelerators, though they should confirm the partner tier and delivery depth.

Fujitsu▲

Sep 16

Data + AI Platform Providers

Fujitsu refocuses Uvance on AI transformation and plans a new data and AI platform

Fujitsu reworked its Uvance business model around AI transformation, organised into consulting with forward deployed engineers, applications and AI agents, and AI platforms. It plans to release a new data and AI platform in March 2027 that combines its Kozuchi and Takane technology with frontier models and supports sovereign cloud. Fujitsu targets Uvance revenue above JPY 1.7 trillion by fiscal 2030.

Buyer takeawayFujitsu clients should expect a shift toward outcome-based and usage-based pricing and can plan sovereign data and AI workloads around the platform due in March 2027.

SalesForce ▲

Sep 15

Agentic AI Platform Providers

Salesforce launches AIforce and Koa CRM reasoning model at Dreamforce

At its Dreamforce keynote, Salesforce introduced AIforce, an interface layer that exposes its data, workflows and permissions to outside AI tools. It includes Claudeforce, built with Anthropic and now in open beta, Slackforce and Agentforce Coworker. The company also previewed Koa, a CRM reasoning model post-trained on NVIDIA Nemotron, with general availability expected in winter 2026.

Buyer takeawaySalesforce customers can increasingly reach CRM data and agents from Claude and Slack, so buyers should review governance, licensing and permission models before opening these channels.

PwC India▲

Sep 13

GCC Enablement Service Providers

PwC US and PwC India sign joint venture combining India consulting capacity

PwC US and PwC India signed an agreement to form a jointly owned venture that merges PwC India's consulting business with the India-based capabilities of PwC US Advisory. Sanjeev Krishan, chair of PwC India, will be CEO. The platform covers strategy, technology, engineering, AI and managed services and is intended partly to support US companies running GCCs in India. Closing is expected in the first half of 2027.

Buyer takeawayCompanies with India GCCs should expect a single, larger PwC delivery entity and should review existing contracts ahead of the 2027 closing.

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Study	Report date	Research phase	Next deadline
GCC Enablement Service Providers - Design, Build, Setup & Operate	Nov 9, 2026	RFI Briefings Evaluation Validation Report	— RFI closes Sep 27
Streaming and Real Time Data Platform Providers	Dec 2, 2026	RFI Briefings Evaluation Validation Report	— RFI closes Nov 2
Agentic AI Service Providers	Dec 5, 2026	RFI Briefings Evaluation Validation Report	— RFI closes Nov 16
Customer Analytics & MarTech Service Providers	Dec 10, 2026	RFI Briefings Evaluation Validation Report	— RFI closes Nov 20
Data Science Service Providers	Dec 10, 2026	RFI Briefings Evaluation Validation Report	— RFI closes Nov 20
AWS Services Partners	Jan 18, 2027	RFI Briefings Evaluation Validation Report	— RFI closes Dec 11
LLM Observability Platform Providers	Jan 20, 2027	RFI Briefings Evaluation Validation Report	— RFI closes Nov 30

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