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IBRSiQ April 2026
In April, rising ICT costs and AI complexity drive a shift toward data-led licensing, risk-based funding, and federated governance to ensure value.
IBRSiQ April 2026
In April, rising ICT costs and AI complexity drive a shift toward data-led licensing, risk-based funding, and federated governance to ensure value.
VENDORiQ: Oracle’s Sydney AI Customer Excellence Centre – The Bigger Picture
Oracle’s Sydney hub offers a pragmatic environment to test agentic AI, provided leaders prioritise robust governance over mere technical adoption.
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.
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.