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CIOs are rethinking how they use public cloud services. Here’s why.

CIO Business Intelligence

Cloud spending is going up and budgets are tightening, so theyre asking whats going on and how do we right this ship. Around the AI service, you need to build a solution with an additional 10 to 12 different cloud services that fulfill the needs of an enterprise system.

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Strategies for telecom executives: navigating the OPEX conundrum

CIO Business Intelligence

Telecoms often rely on software vendors for systems like ERP, network management, and CRM for operations. These are not strategic tools, but rather, mission-critical, taking up a significant portion of the IT budget. Third-party support can extend the useful life of your system while avoiding the CAPEX costs and risks of upgrades.

Strategy 219
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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO Business Intelligence

“The net result is that some organizations’ technology debts are growing faster than anything else and robbing them of their budgets and ability to innovate.” The need to reorient IT’s budget toward future opportunities is one big reason CIOs are reviewing their IT portfolios now.

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2014 - The Year the CIO and CMO Partnership Became Mission Critical

Social, Agile and Transformation

With so many technology vendors trying to tap into marketing budgets and when most of the key marketing data is is enterprise systems, SaaS products, and other data. The main touch point is around data and the technologies that enable CMOs to be more data driven. big data cio cmo data management organizational change SaaS'

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Will marketing continue to grow their share of the technology budget?

Eric D. Brown

If you are involved with marketing and/or technology in any large organization, you most likely are hearing a lot about marketing technology (MarTech) and the ‘explosion’ of MarTech people, technology, projects… and budgets. Will marketing continue to grow their technology budget? I think so.

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HP redefines PC refresh approach using performance data

CIO Business Intelligence

By integrating with the rest of the enterprise systems they were able to see the results individual employees were getting with their PCs and measure satisfaction. This method also helps maximise the value of existing PC assets and minimise budget waste. HP IT provided new or refurbished PCs to users who truly needed an upgrade.

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8 signs you’ve mistimed a major IT initiative

CIO Business Intelligence

Therefore, most CIOs focus on business-critical operations, since maintaining existing enterprise systems is a top priority. Knowing where to focus your negotiation energy on getting the lowest price is key to staying within budget and making sure you don’t have to make trade-offs later, which will mistime the initiative.”