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AI Explainability: More Than Trust
AI explainability goes beyond trust, fostering human oversight, collaboration, and control, especially for high-stakes decisions and system maintenance.
Generative AI Products: Trust Report Card (May 2025)
Latest report assesses GenAI vendors on six key ethics metrics like safeguards and transparency, covering updated solutions comprehensively.
The IBRS AI Trust Scorecard Framework 2025
Special Report: The IBRS framework technically evaluates GenAI trust via six core metrics, guiding model selection based on specific project risks.
Vendor Radar: Voiceform – Harnessing AI for Intelligent Data Collection and Insights
Voiceform is a specialised technology firm leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to innovate data collection and analytics, particularly through voice-based interactions. By integrating AI-powered voice capture and analysis into survey methodologies, Voiceform aims to provide businesses with richer, more nuanced qualitative insights at scale, bridging the gap between traditional quantitative surveys and in-depth qualitative interviews. This approach aligns with key trends in AI’s impact on business intelligence, particularly in enabling natural language interfaces for data interaction and the drive to unlock previously inaccessible dark data.
AI Readiness: AI-Powered Processes & Automation Maturity Model
IBRS’s AI-enabled process maturity model addresses AI integration complexities, guiding organisations beyond traditional methods for strategic, value-driven adoption.
Navigating the Generative AI Landscape: A Comprehensive Guide to Emerging Architectures
GenAI architectures rapidly diversify; executives must grasp technical differences for strategic, efficient deployment.
VENDORiQ: How Microsoft Plans to Redefine Enterprise Web Content Management
AI in web dev changes WCM, impacting digital, web, UX, content, and e-commerce. Assess infrastructure, pilot projects, and invest in skills.
VENDORiQ: Workday Expands AI Agent Portfolio for HR and Finance
Workday’s embedded AI agents signal a shift in enterprise software, automating tasks and offering decision support. Success hinges on data quality and understanding real-world impact.
VENDORiQ: Neo4j Aura Graph Analytics – Is This the Next Leap in AI-Driven Insights?
Neo4j Aura Graph Analytics, a new serverless offering, provides easy access to graph analysis from diverse data sources, reducing complexity and accelerating AI-driven insights.
VENDORiQ: Will China be the Key to Enabling Australian Sovereign AI?
Special Report:
This report discusses the impact and recent announcements regarding Qwen, a Chinese AI model. IBRS is not advocating for Chinese AI. Rather, we argue that there are compelling opportunities and strong economic drivers to create a sovereign AI capability using open source models from around the world. The recent announcement from Qwen drives home the importance and imperative to explore Australian sovereign AI capabilities.
VENDORiQ: ServiceNow – Building a Digital Fabric – Weaving the Fourth-Wave of ICT
ServiceNow leads fourth-wave ICT integration, merging automation tools and leveraging active data for a comprehensive low-code platform approach.
What to Consider Before Undertaking Graph AI Projects
This advisory examines the challenges and considerations for implementing and scaling graph AI databases, with a focus on hyperscaler Cloud options and necessary skills.
VENDORiQ: Google Ironwood: A driver for Cost Efficiency in AI?
Google’s Ironwood TPU targets AI inference cost/efficiency, vital for scaling complex models amidst fierce competition.
VENDORiQ: Google Leans into Sovereign AI
Google’s GDC now hosts Gemini, Vertex AI on-premises, enabling sovereign AI for regulated sectors, strengthening hybrid cloud offerings.
Understanding ‘Reasoning’ in Generative AI: A Misaligned Analogy to Human Thought
Generative AI mimics reasoning through data-driven pattern matching, diverging fundamentally from human cognitive reasoning. The misconception leads to costly mistakes in how businesses apply AI.
How Safe is your AI? Rating Popular Large Language Models
A comprehensive analysis of safe AI models, how current LLM products such as OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and Deepseek stack up and testing recommendations.
VENDORiQ: Infosys Acquires The Missing Link – A Bid for Scale in Australia’s Booming Cyber Market?
Infosys’s acquisition of The Missing Link signifies a trend of major IT providers consolidating cyber security expertise to address market demand and talent gaps in Australia. CIOs and CISOs must carefully evaluate integration impacts on service delivery, pricing, and sovereign capabilities.
VENDORiQ: Veo 2 – A Creative Catalyst or a Time Sink for Business?
AI video generation tools offer rapid content creation; however, strategic alignment, skilled users, and clear guidelines are crucial for realising tangible business value.
Safe AI Usage Policy Template
AI adoption needs a robust policy framework addressing ethical, privacy, and security risks, ensuring compliance with Australian regulations and fostering responsible innovation.
Agentic AI: Same Hype, New Box?
Agentic AI has a functional application that you need to understand.
VENDORiQ: Betting on Cloud Desktops – Nerdio Secures USD500 Million
Nerdio’s $500m investment signals cloud management market maturation amidst on-premise shifts. Delivery challenges require global expansion and enhanced partner enablement.
Navigating the VMware Shift One Year On: Why Mid-Sized Organisations Should Explore Alternatives
Broadcom’s VMware licensing changes demand mid-sized organisations reassess their IT strategies and explore cost-effective alternatives.
AI Trends 2025–2028: A Sanity Check & Update for Busy Business Leaders
A critical analysis of AI trends, debunking vendor-driven myths and emphasising practical, business-oriented adoption strategies.
Machine Learning Algorithms Cheat Sheet
Algorithm selection is crucial for effective machine learning. This guide outlines key algorithms, their strengths, limitations, and practical business applications.
Graph Databases are Here to Rescue Your RAG Projects
Graph AI is finally here, and it promises to fix many of the problems in current retrieval, augmenting generation AI services and improving accuracy, context, and reasoning capabilities.
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