
All Your AI Are Belong to US – Lessons From VENDORiQs in 2025
2025 showed real value comes from mastering business basics, cost control, and owning your data strategy.

2025 showed real value comes from mastering business basics, cost control, and owning your data strategy.

Google’s new Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers fundamentally enable structured AI orchestration at the cloud infrastructure layer, accelerating predictable, governable automation for enterprises.

Most annual trend predictions are little more than marketing disguised as foresight. Market modelling designed to drive consumption rather than economic modelling designed to drive value.

Manage-in-place information management offers a strategic approach to governance, allowing organisations to control data directly across all their existing repositories.

Leaders are prioritising operational optimisation and procurement, whilst navigating AI governance to future-proof their digital strategies.

Unsustainable AI vendor economics demand a strategic focus on governance, true costs, and open-source models for lasting innovation and competitive advantage.

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.

From pilot to profit: Navigate the AI cost landscape for scalable strategic advantage.

Core AI will soon be embedded in core business platforms, making complex custom projects redundant and shifting ICT strategy focus to vendor roadmaps.