IBRS advisor Joseph Sweeney was recently featured in an exclusive article discussing a cyber security report released by SailPoint.
Executing the organisation’s digital strategy to move from on-premise to the Cloud entails choosing and adopting a specific Cloud computing approach. IBRS investigates the concept of serverless computing, which allows developers to concentrate on functionality instead of infrastructure.
What makes Tim Berners-Lee’s Solid project capable of bringing changes in the way we interact with the internet? IBRS explores how this affects control over personal information and its implications for organisations.
Digitising customer services requires strategic prioritisation based on demand, cost, and implementation feasibility. Do you know which customer-facing services to prioritise?
ServiceNow introduced two new AI features – the ServiceNow Generative AI Controller and Now Assist for Search – to improve the platform’s capabilities for enterprise users. This move demonstrates the company’s commitment to providing top-notch AI services, and it’s expected to expand the platform’s functionality while improving user experience. IBRS looks into the implications of this in the growing AI trend.
ServiceNow has launched StarCoder – an AI to assist with coding based on an open-access large language model (LLM). AI-driven code development will significantly impact how applications will be developed, and (more importantly) how existing applications will be integrated. As predicted by IBRS in 2016, software development roles – and the structure of development teams – will transform as AI extends over all language and development environments.
Poorly constructed analytics dashboards can be difficult for users to consume at the best of times. Making dashboards accessible for a broad range of users with neurodiverse and physical limitations is doubly challenging. Yet it is not impossible. In this paper, IBRS recommends a range of better practices for building highly accessible and effective dashboards with the features of Microsoft’s Power BI.
Many organisations that adopted Azure Virtual Desktops find that user satisfaction for the VDI environment is high, but procurement is pushing back on the ongoing price tag. IBRS explores how to dramatically cut the cost of Azure Virtual Desktop services while keeping users happy.
Yammer is being folded into Microsoft Viva Engage. Along with other licensing and product reshuffles in the past year, this is evidence of Microsoft doubling down on its new ‘core’ product sets. The Yammer story is also an example of how once free products make their way into paid platforms.
