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.
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3 November, 2025
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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
VENDORiQ: Gemini Enterprise – How Does it Stack Up?
Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise elevates existing Gemini capabilities, moving beyond basic prompt-based AI to focus on agentic AI for measurable business value. This shift is Google’s strategy to monetise AI by enabling semi-autonomous services that directly leverage business data, overcoming initial market resistance to proving productivity gains from simple AI adoption
IBRS Advisor Team
28 October, 2025
VENDORiQ: Will the Rush to AI Fragment the HCM Landscape?
Acquisitions like Workday-Paradox risk fragmenting HCM with new data silos, demanding unified AI governance and local compliance scrutiny.
IBRS Advisor Team
8 October, 2025
VENDORiQ: Want to Know Where AI is Heading? Watch Neo4j’s Investments.
Neo4j’s investment highlights graph technology’s critical role in practical AI, providing essential context to unlock efficiency gains from GenAI and ML.
IBRS Advisor Team
7 October, 2025
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2 October, 2025
VENDORiQ: Cubesys – Is Outsourcing Azure Desktop Services Management a Sensible Path to VDI Efficiency?
For Azure Virtual Desktop, executives must choose: fully outsourcing daily ops, or empowering internal teams with specialised management platforms.
IBRS Advisor Team
30 September, 2025
IBRSiQ September 2025
Despite an unwavering focus on fundamental operational excellence, value delivery, and governance, senior ICT leaders are increasingly balancing immediate security and compliance needs with a strategic evaluation of emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and generative AI to drive future efficiency and organisational value.
IBRS Advisor Team
30 September, 2025