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2025 Research Review: Costs, Budgets, Governance and… you guessed it, AI
Navigating 2025 required balancing accelerating AI, rigorous governance, and cost control to translate market hype into actionable executive strategy. Our full access report on the year that was.

2025 Research Review: Costs, Budgets, Governance and… you guessed it, AI
Navigating 2025 required balancing accelerating AI, rigorous governance, and cost control to translate market hype into actionable executive strategy. Our full access report on the year that was.

VENDORiQ: Design Software Market Heats Up
Figma’s successful IPO signals a robust design software market, potentially encouraging competitors to also go public soon.

How to Use the IBRS AI
These tutorials will not only help you master the IBRS AI tool but also enable your team to transform the way they approach research, advisory, and decision-making.

IBRS Interviews Prof. Philipp Koehn – The AI Godfather – 24 Jul 2025
Prof. Koehn has authored over 200 research papers with more than 50,000 citations, and written the definitive textbooks Statistical Machine Translation and Neural Machine Translation.

VENDORiQ: Adobe’s Firefly – A Smarter Video Toolkit for Professional Communication?
Adobe Firefly’s evolution into a generative video hub boosts efficiency, but organisations must balance this with robust governance and skill development to avoid a deluge of poor-quality, off-brand content.

‘Try the Future’: New ChatGPT AI Agents Promise to do Your Jobs – AFR – 18 July 2025
OpenAI’s new ‘Agents’ are an important step in user experience, but businesses should focus on process redesign for true productivity gains, not just shiny new toys.

Databases Are Evolving in the AI Era… With Huge Implications For ERP
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.