Forrester IT

APRIL 16, 2024

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) recently released FY 2025 President’s Budget. The OMB not only develops and executes budget for the Executive Branch, but also manages and oversees federal agency performance, procurement, and IT, among other responsibilities.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Budget constraints Barrier: IT modernization requires substantial investment, and budget constraints are a common hurdle. Solution: To address budget constraints, organizations should adopt a strategic approach to funding IT modernization. Furthermore, resistance to change among employees can impede modernization efforts.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 15, 2025

Until now, many companies have cut costs in other areas, laid off staff, or raided the budgets of other departments to pay for AI projects. If you look at 23 and 2024 you had a lot of budget increases, you had a bunch of layoffs over the last couple of years, and not something thats sustainable.

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Network World

OCTOBER 10, 2024

“Gen AI-driven application modernization tools are revolutionizing mainframe modernization strategies, accelerating time to value, and closing mainframe skills gaps by enabling developers to modernize or build applications faster and more efficiently,” the study stated.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The numbers are higher from Foundry’s 2023 State of CIO survey , which finds that 91% of CIOs expect their tech budgets to either increase or stay the same in 2023. And it’s not just applications development where such tools are having an impact.

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Network World

JANUARY 14, 2025

Multiple standards and certification efforts made progress in 2024, helping networks to be more reliable and deliver more bandwidth.One of the most significant developments was the maturation of 800 Gigabit Ethernet (800GbE). The IEEE P802.3df taskforce released version 1.0 of the 800GbE specification on Feb.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Nearly half of C-suite respondents report that over 30% of tech projects are late or over budget, with one in five dissatisfied with most outcomes. The traditional software development life cycle (SDLC) is fraught with challenges, particularly requirement gathering, contributing to 40-50% of project failures.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 31, 2024

You wouldnt hire someone who doesnt know how to write code to develop your software, so why would you expect a project manager or business analyst to drive change management? Change management is a specialized discipline, just like business analysis, user experience development, or business analysis.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

One approach would be to create an IT capabilities map, develop data-driven scoring metrics, populating a dashboard, and using the result to construct an IT organizational transformation roadmap. Reframe the conversation Thats when its time for you as CIO to have a tough conversation with the Powers That Be about the IT budget.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

According to experts and other survey findings, in addition to sales and marketing, other top use cases include productivity, software development, and customer service. Use case 2: software development PGIM also uses gen AI for code generation, specifically using Github Copilot.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 9, 2024

CIOs have to accept that their current budget does not allow them to do the transformative work in data thats necessary, he says. Ask about the software development lifecycle. Whats equally challenging? CIOs must accept the fact that theyll have to ask for that money and sell the CEO, CFO, and board on getting it.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 28, 2025

Many CIOs expect significant price increases in the cloud and other IT products and services during 2025, requiring those with stagnant budgets to make difficult decisions about IT spending. But price increases are also a huge driver of spending increases, says Dmytro Romanchenko, CEO of software developer Syndicode.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

For CIOs tasked with managing IT budgets while driving technological innovation, balancing these costs against the benefits of GenAI is essential. Ineffective cost management: Over 22% of IT executives highlight challenges in managing costs and developing clear ROI methodologies. million in 2025 to $7.45

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Talent shortages — or, more precisely, the shortage of skilled workers willing to take jobs at the rate most enterprise CIOs are willing to pay given tightening IT budgets — will be another key factor. “At We can’t keep them up to date because the requirements keep changing.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Additionally, 90% of respondents intend to purchase or leverage existing AI models, including open-source options, when building AI applications, while only 10% plan to develop their own. Survey respondents ranked ESG reporting as a top area needing AI skills development, even above R&D and product development.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The Index showed that 50% of those surveyed have between 10% and 30% of their current IT budget dedicated to AI. “This is not deterring them, as leaders say they will not only continue to invest in AI, but actually increase their spend,” Cisco stated.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Less than half are using AI to expand revenue opportunities or to increase the speed of development. More than half plan to increase their AI budgets this year , a slight decrease from the 61% who increased their AI budgets in the past year.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 1, 2025

This article delves into developing FinOps solutions tailored for AI services, highlighting the unique considerations and strategic approaches necessary. Model training costs: Monitor expenses related to computational resources during model development. Budgeting: Establish budgets for each AI project and track adherence.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Two key developments are shaping this evolution: vertical SaaS and composable solutions. CIOs will need to work closely with finance teams to model different pricing scenarios and choose the options that best align with their organizations needs and budget constraints.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2025

Case studies: Intuit and Roku Intuit Jason Rhoades, the development manager at Intuit, leads the companys FinOps team. Good data engineering enables transparency, visibility, and accurate budgeting and forecasting. Intuit and Roku have developed tools that simplify resource management and align costs with responsible teams.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Free the AI At the same time, most organizations will spend a small percentage of their IT budgets on gen AI software deployments, Lovelock says. Even though many device makers are pushing hard for customers to buy AI-enabled products, the market hasn’t yet developed, he adds.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Tanzu Vanguards, which includes leaders, engineers, and developers from DATEV, Dell, GAIG, and TeraSky, provided their perspectives on analyst predictions and industry data that point to larger trends impacting cloud computing, application development, and technology decisions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Ongoing layoffs in the tech industry and rising demand for AI skills are contributing to a growing mismatch in the IT talent market, which continues to show mixed signals as economic factors and the rise of AI impact budgets and the long-term outlook for IT skills.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Product management is crucial for businesses looking to drive innovation and leverage technology as a differentiator, shared Roman Dumiak, executive-in-residence at the DePaul University Innovation Development Lab, at a recent Coffee With Digital Trailblazers event I hosted on the topic.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Expectation of disruption Limited investment in cyber resilience remains a challenge, despite rising security budgets overall: nearly 49% of U.S.-based based IT leaders globally believe their budget for cyber resilience is inadequate. A lack of budget cannot be put down to a lack of evidence of need.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 13, 2025

And theyll get this level of granularity without needing a thousand-person operation or a billion-dollar data analytics budget. Advances in AI and ML will automate the compliance, testing, documentation and other tasks which can occupy 40-50% of a developers time. Prediction #4: 2025 will be a RAG to riches AI story.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 3, 2024

There’s value in experimenting with AI, because CIOs and other IT leaders can develop expertise through a limited number of proof-of-concept projects, he adds.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Consider 76 percent of IT leaders believe that generative AI (GenAI) will significantly impact their organizations, with 76 percent increasing their budgets to pursue AI. IT leaders are placing faith in AI. But when it comes to cybersecurity, AI has become a double-edged sword.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 10, 2024

According to AI at Wartons report on navigating gen AIs early years, 72% of enterprises predict gen AI budget growth over the next 12 months but slower increases over the next two to five years. But if all gen AI does is improve productivity, CIOs may be challenged long term to justify budget increases and experiments with new capabilities.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2025

Were 80 to 85% in the cloud and for us, the job is proactively tracking this spend, then educating developers and data teams on how to use cloud capabilities in a cost-effective manner, he says. But his organization developed its own model, says Mohammad. Plus, many enterprises were doing FinOps well before the term was coined.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

We had high turnover, not so much in the IT part, but in software development and engineering operating units, so innovations in human resource management started from here.” Instead, for those who work in development, we’ll continue to provide up to three days a week of remote work.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

As part of MMTech’s unifying strategy, Beswick chose to retire the data centers and form an “enterprisewide architecture organization” with a set of standards and base layers to develop applications and workloads that would run on the cloud, with AWS as the firm’s primary cloud provider.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 13, 2025

growth in ICT budgets specific to Italy, mostly in line with recent trends. It makes no sense to create a product and propose it after a year of development and integration only to find out its not useful. CIOs know this well, even when they increase their IT investments. The voice of the user is important.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 11, 2024

The complexity within IT infrastructures is increasing, as is the pressure on IT budgets to use available funds as smartly and efficiently as possible. It emerged that there are major gaps in cloud cost management and optimization (CCMO) strategies, resulting in exceeded budgets and an overall loss cloud spend control.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Develop a timeline for your next renewal date. Take advantage of modeling and cost estimator tools that can help IT model configurations and better understand resource needs and budget impacts for a shift from legacy VDI to DaaS. So, there’s no time to get ahead of the game like the present.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

investigation budget and achieve full detection within a 5% budget in certain cases. We need to invest in developing more robust and secure AI systems, ones that are resistant to manipulation and capable of explaining their decision-making processes.

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