Fast Tracking Economic Advantage from Core Solution Upgrades
Analysing 23 Australian organisation case studies, this independent report identifies key drivers for successful core migrations.
Joseph Sweeney
30 January, 2026
Cloud
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Interactive’s Sovereign Strategy Hits the IBRS Radar – SecurityBrief Australia Jan 21 2026
Interactive’s sovereign-first strategy bridges legacy systems and modern cloud, helping regulated Australian firms manage data residency and supplier risk effectively.
IBRS Advisor Team
28 January, 2026
VENDORiQ: Oracle AI World – Oracle CEO Mike Sicilia Keynote. Why is it Important?
Oracle’s vision: AI-as-a-Service built into OCI and applications will drive productivity, minimise customisation, and secure business outcomes.
Mike Mitchelmore
28 October, 2025
VENDORiQ: Oracle AI World – OCI and AI. Why is it Important?
Oracle streamlines OCI and embeds AI across all products, enabling hybrid cloud options and unlocking data-driven business intelligence for users.
Mike Mitchelmore
28 October, 2025
VENDORiQ: Want to Know Where AI is Heading? Watch Neo4j’s Investments.
Neo4j’s investment highlights graph technology’s critical role in practical AI, providing essential context to unlock efficiency gains from GenAI and ML.
IBRS Advisor Team
7 October, 2025
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.
Joseph Sweeney
1 October, 2025
VENDORiQ: Google Gemini Image in OpenRouter – Moving Beyond Manual Prompting?
Creative AI is evolving beyond manual prompting to programmatic, high-throughput image generation with enhanced governance and analytics features.
IBRS Advisor Team
8 September, 2025
VENDORiQ: Perth’s Azure Expansion – A Boost for Western Australia’s Digital Ambitions
Microsoft’s Azure expansion in Perth will cut latency and boost resilience for WA and ASEAN customers, enabling local hosting of critical workloads, especially for the public and resources sectors.
IBRS Advisor Team
17 June, 2025
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.
Joseph Sweeney
19 May, 2025