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ERP databases are rapidly integrating AI indexing like vector and graph search. This will enable "invisible AI" within core business applications, but adoption may be slow due to migration and skill challenges.
Generative AI will revolutionise how businesses handle data, offering natural language interfaces for queries and merging data and information governance.
Is your workforce under pressure to reduce its reliance on IT specialist skills? Does your organisation experience an inability to attract specialists with the right skills? Is there a perception among your executives that the need for specialists is reducing due to AI? Where is the balance, and how do you meet the challenges AI brings?
Regardless of their current data maturity levels, enterprises often encounter challenges in fully engaging their entire workforce in data-driven decision-making. Senior executives are seeking ways to effectively leverage generative AI to implement enterprise-wide business intelligence, enabling every team to access real-time operational data and derive actionable insights.
This advisory paper offers a tech maturity model for higher education, from basic to optimising, helping institutions benchmark and prioritise tech investments.
IBRS has previously provided research and advisory on digital governance structures and terms of reference. This advisory goes further, examining the issues, content, and agenda of modern digital governance. What should be the focus of IT governance today?
Organisations must adopt performance-based contracts for AI to ensure investments deliver tangible value and costs align with business objectives. This approach links payments to measurable outcomes, shifting from traditional input-based pricing.
Enhancing cyber resilience hinges on evolving cyber security awareness programs to actively measure and influence human behaviour and organisational culture, fostering a shared responsibility beyond the IT department through visible metrics and incentivisation
Businesses are shifting from a Knowledge to an Innovation Economy, with AI driving new ideas, customer engagement, and operational efficiency.
AI video tools, like early desktop publishing, offer huge potential, but smart adoption needs a clear strategy, skilled people, and pilot programmes to ensure real business value.
Most AI Proof-of-Concepts fail in production due to underestimated costs, dynamic data issues, governance, and integration challenges. Tackle these early for success.
The Australian Signals Directorate's (ASD) Foundations for Modern Defensible Architecture[1] provides a strategic framework that bridges tactical security controls with comprehensive guidance, providing Australian organisations with the architectural principles needed to build inherently resilient systems in an era where cyber breaches are inevitable.
Explainable AI offers diverse techniques like LIME, SHAP, and counterfactuals, crucial for building trust, meeting compliance, and empowering staff to collaborate effectively with AI systems.
As AI is progressively being adopted across every industry, organisations need to be more transparent with their stakeholders on how they collect, process and protect their private information.
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AI explainability goes beyond trust, fostering human oversight, collaboration, and control, especially for high-stakes decisions and system maintenance.
Knowby's AI-driven knowledge platform is primed for global success by scaling its solution, expanding partnerships, and integrating with enterprise systems, despite a competitive market.
Salesforce's Agentforce 3.0 offers new observability for AI agents, but deeper, end-to-end workflow visibility is needed for complex multi-agent systems.
Adobe's latest AI innovations, including GenStudio and LLM Optimizer, are enabling businesses to hyper-personalise customer experiences and boost visibility in AI-driven interactions.
Salesforce's new AI pricing offers clear costs per action, but expect AI expenses to jump as vendors stop loss-leading and orchestration grows.
Microsoft's Azure expansion in Perth will cut latency and boost resilience for WA and ASEAN customers, enabling local hosting of critical workloads, especially for the public and resources sectors.
Voiceform uses AI-powered voice capture to get richer, nuanced qualitative insights at scale, transforming traditional surveys and unlocking dark data for better business intelligence.
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