All Your AI Are Belong to US – Lessons From VENDORiQs in 2025
2025 showed real value comes from mastering business basics, cost control, and owning your data strategy.
IBRS Advisor Team
15 December, 2025
IBRS Advisor Team
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VENDORiQ: Google Gemini 3 – Is a 6x Cost Increase Justified?
Gemini 3 boosts reasoning capabilities but costs soar. Adopt a mixed-model strategy, reserving it for complex tasks to manage spend.
IBRS Advisor Team
9 December, 2025
VENDORiQ: ECI Software Solutions’ New AI Services – Built-In Vs Bolt-On
ECI embeds AI into EvolutionX to streamline operations and fraud detection, favouring integrated simplicity over complex bolt-on solutions.
IBRS Advisor Team
9 December, 2025
IBRSiQ November 2025
Leaders are prioritising operational optimisation and procurement, whilst navigating AI governance to future-proof their digital strategies.
IBRS Advisor Team
1 December, 2025
Modern Information Management. Manage-in-Place Vendor Summary 2025
Managing information where it lives, known as manage-in-place, requires understanding diverse technical architectures to select the right governance strategy.
IBRS Advisor Team
6 November, 2025
VENDORiQ: Here Comes StarCoder 2… How Does it Compare?
StarCoder2, an open-access code LLM, offers customisation for enterprise development, but requires governance for DevOps integration.
IBRS Advisor Team
6 November, 2025
VENDORiQ: AI Innovation Recap – October 2025
A recap of important vendor announcements this month, such as a product launches, M&A, or changes in licensing agreements.
IBRS Advisor Team
3 November, 2025
IBRSiQ October 2025
Lately, the big questions for CIOs have revolved around strategic ICT challenges, ensuring proper governance and maximum value from IT investments. The key trend is artificial intelligence (AI), with senior leaders keen to understand the AI landscape, including practical uses for generative AI, to guide investment decisions and ensure the new tools align with established principles
IBRS Advisor Team
31 October, 2025
VENDORiQ: CustomGPT Levels Up Business Processes with Enhanced Image Analysis
CustomGPT.ai’s new visual processing allows AI agents to incorporate images (diagrams, screenshots) as visual citations into responses, leveraging existing multimodal large language model (LLM) technology.
IBRS Advisor Team
28 October, 2025