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Copilot: Where’s the Value and How Do We Get It? – Webinar and Presentation Kit
Organisations must shift from AI experimentation to fiscal scrutiny, managing hidden costs and skill erosion through value-based strategic roadmaps.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Microsoft Pull-Back Casts Doubts on Local Data Centre Boom – AFR – 6 April 2025
Microsoft’s data centre pullback signals a reality check for AI’s endless growth, potentially impacting future cloud costs and availability for Australian organisations.
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.
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.
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 and AI: The Catalyst for Contextual Intelligence in the Enterprise
Simplified, cost-effective graph databases are driving AI innovation, enabling advanced applications like RAG and agentic AI.
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.
‘No Winners’: CEO of Software Giant SAP Urges End to Trump Tariff War – AFR – 24 March 2025
US tech’s push for unfettered market access clashes with national sovereignty, ignoring crucial privacy, intellectual property, and security concerns, risking a fragmented digital world.
The Grand-Unified Theory of Knowledge Management: How Did We Get in This Mess and What To Do About It
The era of deep collaboration and democratised data analytics forces two very different disciplines – knowledge management and data management – together. A surplus of idealised hype and a lack of practical technologies add pressure.
VENDORiQ: Industrial AI Agents – The Battle for Enterprise Workflow Automation Intensifies
Enterprise platforms now embed industrial AI agents, shifting from bespoke solutions. ServiceNow focuses on governance; Salesforce on proactive automation, simplifying deployment and impacting various enterprise roles.
VENDORiQ: Salesforce’s Embedded Industrial AI Agents – The Silent Revolution in Enterprise Workflow Automation
Salesforce’s Agentforce 2dx introduces autonomous AI agents for background tasks, boosting workforce productivity by proactively preparing and processing information, streamlining workflows.
VENDORiQ: Aussie Atturra’s Acquisition of US Kitepipe Boomi Specialist
Atturra’s Kitepipe acquisition expands its North American footprint, bolstering Boomi integration, crucial for TechnologyOne and Microsoft ecosystems, with Philippine support enhancing scalability.
Copilot: Moving Beyond the Primitive Stage of AI
In this opinion piece by Dr. Joseph Sweeney, he discusses how GenAI’s promise transcends simple prompts. Real automation, targeting repetitive, complex, and costly tasks, will truly revolutionise work and productivity.
VENDORiQ: Diffusion LLMs Hit the Market – What You Need to Know
dLLMs’ parallel processing offers tenfold speed gains, reducing costs and enabling sovereign AI on standard GPUs, a key strategic shift for ICT.
IBRS Framework for Enterprise SaaS Solution Before and After Benchmarking
SaaS implementation benchmarking reveals tangible improvements across twelve key areas, from cost savings to enhanced decision-making, validating cloud investment success.