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VENDORiQ: Microsoft Just Ignited an Agentic Cost and Governance Imperative for 2026
Microsoft Ignite ushers in autonomous agents, creating an immediate need for financial oversight and zero-trust security to manage unpredictable operational costs.
Iren’s $15b Microsoft Mega-Deal Sign of an AI Surge that Won’t Stop – AFR Nov 4 2025
The AI industry is experiencing an unprecedented surge, with neo-cloud firms like Iren playing a pivotal role in reshaping the AI infrastructure market.
The Economics Of AI: Why AI Vendors Are Failing Economically, Their Planned Tactics To Become Profitable, And What It Means For Your Organisation – Webinar and Presentation Kit
Unsustainable AI vendor economics demand a strategic focus on governance, true costs, and open-source models for lasting innovation and competitive advantage.
VENDORiQ: Microsoft’s Copilot Gets a Sandbox – What Does ‘Computer Use’ Mean Now?
Microsoft’s new sandboxed Copilot extends its reach from data synthesis to autonomous execution, creating governance and compliance challenges, especially around paywalled data and security.
VENDORiQ: Canva’s Creative OS is a Strategic Attack on Adobe’s Fortress
Canva is challenging Adobe’s market leadership by offering free professional tools (Affinity) and launching an AI-driven Creative Operating System for enterprise content scale.
Beyond the Hype: Understand What Artificial Intelligence Really Is!
Think of ‘AI’ as pattern services, machine learning, graph, and generative AI, that orchestrate to deliver complex outcomes, with Agentic AI as advanced process automation.
Your Core Business Solutions Are Becoming AI-Centric… What’s the Impact on Your ICT Strategy?
Core AI will soon be embedded in core business platforms, making complex custom projects redundant and shifting ICT strategy focus to vendor roadmaps.
The Hybrid Cloud Paradox: Unmasking the True Cost of Ownership
Hybrid Cloud’s TCO is often triple-budgeted due to overlooked integration, data transfer fees, and lack of FinOps governance.
VENDORiQ: Will Conversational IT Support Redefine Your Internal Help Desk? Salesforce Thinks So
Salesforce’s Agentforce signals conversational AI is the ‘final mile’ in IT support automation, freeing up human staff for complex work.
Digital Workplace Persona Template
Effective, tailored user personas drive successful digital workspace strategies by discovering diverse staff needs, fostering innovation, and supporting flexibility.
What is Model Context Protocol, Where is it Heading, and Why Should You Care?
Model context protocol (MCP) is a vital standard enabling AI agents to automate tasks in core enterprise systems, but requires immediate, strong governance for safe adoption.
VENDORiQ: AWS’s New Zealand Region – Business as Usual or a Sign of Shifting Priorities?
AWS’s New Zealand region is essential expansion, yet broader investment shifts toward high-risk, high-reward AI infrastructure will affect core cloud services.
Navigating the 2025 Microsoft Enterprise Agreement Reset
Microsoft is ending volume discounts on Enterprise Agreements to fund AI investment, forcing executives to shift from price negotiation to value management and governance.
VENDORiQ: Neo4j’s Infinigraph – A Step Towards a Unified Graph Architecture?
Neo4j’s Infinigraph architecture unifies transactional and analytical workloads at scale, simplifying data ecosystems and enabling real-time insights for AI.
VENDORiQ: Copilot Consolidation – Getting Value from a Classic Microsoft Bundling Strategy
Microsoft is bundling its specific Copilots into the main M365 license, signaling a shift to specialised AI tools embedded in daily workflows.
VENDORiQ: Is Your ‘Open Source’ AI Truly Open? A Critical Look at Vendor Claims
ICT leaders must scrutinise ‘open source’ AI claims; the provided code is often a wrapper for a proprietary, vendor-controlled backend, creating vendor lock-in.
VENDORiQ: ServiceNow’s Latest Agentic Features – Balancing Innovation, Structured Business Workflow and Risks?
ServiceNow’s Zurich release balances innovation with governance, focusing on multi-agentic AI development, enhanced workflow automation, and integrated security features.
Beyond the Illusion: AÂ Pragmatic Look at the Reality of Artificial Intelligence
Despite the hype, GenAI is a multi-billion dollar bet on a technology vendors can’t own or control, requiring urgent regulation.
Action Plan to Introduce Microsoft Intune Mobile Device Management Template
MDM solutions enhance security and compliance while streamlining device management and improving productivity.
From Text Piles to Knowledge Structures: Using Graphs to Improve RAG Reasoning
The limitations of current RAGs can be overcome by structuring information into hierarchical knowledge graphs for better reasoning and reliable AI.
Digital Citizen Services – From Browsing to Conversational and Agentic Interactions
Website interactions are shifting from static, keyword-based searches to personalised, conversational AI experiences, but human interfaces will remain crucial.
An AI Applications Architecture for Mid-Sized Organisations: Avoiding Over-Investment While Supercharging Efficiency. Special Report
Invest in a modular, low-code AI fabric for immediate efficiency gains while avoiding costly, monolithic over-investment.
VENDORiQ: Google’s Sovereign AI push
Google’s new sovereign AI capability in Australia, with Gemini 2.5 Flash processing locally, addresses data residency concerns for regulated industries, strengthening GCP’s market position.
Your Community Wants Better Digital Services. Can You Deliver? – GN – 8 August 2025
Citizens want simple, clear online council services, but most aren’t getting them. The fix isn’t complex technology, but rather empathetic, user-centric design.
VENDORiQ: Atturra to Acquire Blue Connections – What Should Clients Do Now?
Blue Connections clients must actively manage the acquisition by Atturra, reviewing contracts and engaging with the new leadership to ensure service continuity.