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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.
Share Ownership Questions and Big Losses Create Atlassian Stress Test – AFR – 4 August 2025
Atlassian’s long-term unprofitability and venture-capital-like behaviour raise concerns, especially with a potential tech downturn and the rising costs of AI on the horizon.
‘Try the Future’: New ChatGPT AI Agents Promise to do Your Jobs – AFR – 18 July 2025
OpenAI’s new ‘Agents’ are an important step in user experience, but businesses should focus on process redesign for true productivity gains, not just shiny new toys.
Higher Education Technology Maturity Model
This advisory paper offers a tech maturity model for higher education, from basic to optimising, helping institutions benchmark and prioritise tech investments.
AI Explainability: Available Techniques
Explainable AI offers diverse techniques like LIME, SHAP, and counterfactuals, crucial for building trust, meeting compliance, and empowering staff to collaborate effectively with AI systems.
Report Finds Digital Services Shunned by Vulnerable Residents – Inside Local Government – 1 July 2025
Digital council services are failing Australia’s most vulnerable. The barrier isn’t a lack of technology, but a lack of empathy in their design.
AI Agents Will Change the Way We Work, Just Don’t Call Them Colleagues – AFR – 25 June 2025
Agentic AI is the current darling of the tech world, but without the ‘gritty work’ of process design and orchestration, it is just a promise.
AI Explainability: More Than Trust
AI explainability goes beyond trust, fostering human oversight, collaboration, and control, especially for high-stakes decisions and system maintenance.
The Causal Barrier: Why True AI Agents Remain Elusive
Despite the hype, true AI agents are elusive. They lack causal understanding, limiting effective autonomous action in varied environments.
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 uses AI-powered voice capture to get richer, nuanced qualitative insights at scale, transforming traditional surveys and unlocking dark data for better business intelligence.
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: 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: 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:Â 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: 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.
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.
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.
Australian Jobs to Go as Part of Microsoft’s Global Workforce Cull – AFR – 14 May 2025
Microsoft’s recent staff cuts are not about AI taking jobs. The real story lies in the company’s massive infrastructure spending and global economic uncertainty.
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:Â 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.
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.
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.