Atlassian’s AI Pivot: Trading Seats for Usage to Secure a Profitable 2027 – AFR May 7 2026
How do you anticipate these shifts in AI pricing models will impact your organisation’s long – term software budget and vendor strategy?
The Case for Persona-Based Licensing: Why “Everyone Gets E3” Is Your Most Expensive Mistake
Stop wasting budget on blanket E3/E5 licensing. Segmenting users into 4–6 personas based on actual needs typically yields 25% annual savings.
The Forward Deployed Engineer Trap Part 1: Manifesto – The Three Dirty Secrets of Platform Colonialism
The FDE model imposes a cognitive tax by extracting domain expertise to harden vendor products. Without logic sovereignty, you subsidise your own obsolescence and risk ontological lock-in. Executives must audit logic layers now to reclaim strategic autonomy before operational exit becomes impossible. Part 1 of 3 of The FDE Trap series.
Knowledge Management Practice Maturity Evolves with Graph-RAG-TAG Adoption
Ditch manual knowledge decay. Adopt Graph-RAG-TAG architectures to automate service desks, ensuring real-time, self-healing ITSM insights and superior incident resolution.
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Thought Leadership: The AI Myth vs. The Layoff Reality: Why Bad Investments, Not Automation, Are Driving Job Cuts
Recent layoffs stem from poor investment strategies and velocity-over-productivity traps, not AI automation. Success requires human-led oversight and intelligent integration.
How Microsoft’s Licensing Creates Copilot Proof of Concept Problems
Microsoft licensing restrictions, particularly the 90-day reassignment rule, hinder traditional PoCs. Executives must reframe initial deployments as permanent implementation phases.
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Sourcing Monthly April 2026
IBRS Sourcing Monthly brings you the latest news and deals in the Australian IT world.
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Client Testimonial – Multi-decade partnership with CeNET
IBRS provided what I would call a foundational document in terms of seeing CeNETs history. That study that was done back in 2011 really did inform the one strategy. And we still refer to it today. The relationship that we have with IBRS. It’s been long, but it’s been probably the most important from a consulting research perspective that CeNET has had over its lifespan.
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VENDORiQ: NetSuite’s Powers Up With – You Guessed It – AI
NetSuite’s Sydney announcements confirm that embedded agentic AI is becoming standard ERP kit, shifting the focus from custom builds to governance and workforce adaptation.
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