CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 8, 2025

Over the past few years, enterprises have strived to move as much as possible as quickly as possible to the public cloud to minimize CapEx and save money. Cloud spending is going up and budgets are tightening, so theyre asking whats going on and how do we right this ship. Are they truly enhancing productivity and reducing costs?

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 29, 2024

On the other hand, there are also many cases of enterprises hanging onto obsolete systems that have long-since exceeded their original ROI. Understandably, many enterprises may want to ‘sweat the assets’ in order to get the most out of their systems, but this tactic comes with risk,” he warns.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

research firm Vanson Bourne to survey 650 global IT, DevOps, and Platform Engineering decision-makers on their enterprise AI strategy. The Nutanix State of Enterprise AI Report highlights AI adoption, challenges, and the future of this transformative technology. Nutanix commissioned U.K.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is a system of integrated software applications that manages day-to-day business processes and operations across finance, human resources, procurement, distribution, supply chain, and other functions. ERP systems improve enterprise operations in a number of ways. ERP definition.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 2, 2024

When your CEO or CFO asks about the budget needed for technical debt remediation , do you find yourself struggling to justify the investment? Our research shows 52% of organizations are increasing AI investments through 2025 even though, along with enterprise applications, AI is the primary contributor to tech debt. You’re not alone.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Agentic AI, the more focused alternative to general-purpose generative AI, is gaining momentum in the enterprise, with Forrester having named it a top emerging technology for 2025 in June. The reason is because enterprises look for some predictability. That is until they see a spike and burn through half of their budget in a few weeks.

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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. While AI projects will continue beyond 2025, many organizations’ software spending will be driven more by other enterprise needs like CRM and cloud computing, Lovelock says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 26, 2023

IT leaders seeking to drive enterprise growth through technology investments are often saddled with budgets that make their tasks of increasing the top and bottom lines challenging. Despite an estimated increase to IT budgets of 5.1% The year 2023 seems to be no different.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Much like finance, HR, and sales functions, organizations aim to streamline cloud operations to address resource limitations and standardize services. However, enterprise cloud computing still faces similar challenges in achieving efficiency and simplicity, particularly in managing diverse cloud resources and optimizing data management.

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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. That doesnt necessarily mean that most enterprises are expanding the amount of cloud storage they need, he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The Impact of Technology in 2025 and Beyond survey from professional organization IEEE found that 58% of enterprise tech leaders believe AI will be the most important area of technology in 2025, far ahead of any other tech. Whats equally challenging? Theyll have to find a way to engage the CFO in a conversation about funding, Schadler says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 2, 2025

And the glut of gen AI pilots going nowhere is proving a drain on resources, Wells says. Taking the time to look at that budget for it and plan for it, from my perspective, is more important than just jumping right in and potentially losing millions of dollars, because its just not as effective as youd hoped it to be.

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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. Engage stakeholders: Work with finance and operations teams to align on budgets, shared goals, and success metrics. million in 2025 to $7.45 million in 2025 to $7.45

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Network World

JANUARY 14, 2025

However, high-speed also means high power and higher heat, placing more demands on the electrical grid and resources and creating a demand for new options. At a time when many DC [data center] operators are facing challenges around power and cooling, LPO can save 25% of the networking power budget, at a system level.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Fifty-two percent of organizations plan to increase or maintain their IT spending this year, according to Enterprise Strategy Group. 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. IDC is forecasting a 5.1%

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

CIOs often have a love-hate relationship with enterprise architecture. On the one hand, enterprise architects play a key role in selecting platforms, developing technical capabilities, and driving standards.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 2, 2024

That’s the race that seems to be going on in enterprises: ‘How do I go make room and power to do AI?’” That pressure is just really driving the enterprise customers, whether it be in a co-lo or create their own, to get those capabilities.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 1, 2025

As artificial intelligence (AI) services, particularly generative AI (genAI), become increasingly integral to modern enterprises, establishing a robust financial operations (FinOps) strategy is essential. Model training costs: Monitor expenses related to computational resources during model development.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

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. Find the best consolidated management tools that can help enterprises and MSPs manage scaling, security, and updates.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Because as a young CIO, I was struggling with obtaining budget approvals for a range of IT initiatives. A majority of CIOs I speak with dread the budget approval process and breathe a welcome sigh of relief when annual budgeting comes to an end. In other words, the IT resources needed for this project are substantial.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 14, 2024

Between building gen AI features into almost every enterprise tool it offers, adding the most popular gen AI developer tool to GitHub — GitHub Copilot is already bigger than GitHub when Microsoft bought it — and running the cloud powering OpenAI, Microsoft has taken a commanding lead in enterprise gen AI.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Most IT departments are under-resourced and left to debate what capabilities, improvements, and fixes to prioritize. But many enterprises stopped their agile transformations at this layer. Most enterprise IT departments need program managers but need to restate their responsibilities.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2025

FinOps finally became ubiquitous across the enterprise landscape last year with 75% of Forbes Global 2000 companies now all-in, according to IDC. Were looking more at SaaS and PaaS, and our enterprise technology organization is trying to utilize some of the same principles for our on-premises data centers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Birmingham City Councils (BCC) troubled enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, built on Oracle software, has become a case study of how large-scale IT projects can go awry. Licensing and customization fees added further strain to the budget. Cost overruns and delays: where did it go wrong?

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

As enterprise CIOs seek to find the ideal balance between the cloud and on-prem for their IT workloads, they may find themselves dealing with surprises they did not anticipate — ones where the promise of the cloud, and cloud vendors, fall short versus the realities of enterprise IT. That’s where the contract comes into play.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Another concern is the skill and resource gap that emerged with the rise of GenAI. Without one to pilot the GenAI journey, projects and business functions that rely on the tool can exceed budgets and outrun its value. Looking beyond existing infrastructures For a start, enterprises can leverage new technologies purpose-built for GenAI.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

HP Anyware is the enterprise software IT needs to keep people productive with secured access to their digital workspaces without a VPN. Help your apps and budget perform Give your creative apps a boost by consolidating your graphics workstations alongside existing cloud storage and renderfarms. Why HP Anyware?

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Integration with other systems was difficult and it required a lot of specialized resources to make changes, such as business processes and validation during order entry and replenishment to branch offices, he says. Quite frankly, we didn’t have the internal resources to support an on-premise solution,” Shannon says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Azures growing adoption among companies leveraging cloud platforms highlights the increasing need for effective cloud resource management. Enterprises must focus on resource provisioning, automation, and monitoring to optimize cloud environments. As Azure environments grow, managing and optimizing costs becomes paramount.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

This enables companies to simplify invoicing, track spending, and manage budgets. This solution, available as a self-managed or fully managed solution, provides organizations the tools they need to deploy enterprise wide automation. Users can launch third-party solutions that meet their security and compliance standards.

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Web Services Government Budget Security 246

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The other side of the cost/benefit equation — what the software will cost the organization, and not just sticker price — may not be as captivating when it comes to achieving approval for a software purchase, but it’s just as vital in determining the expected return on any enterprise software investment.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 19, 2024

So, it’s no surprise that GenAI projects are prioritized for funding across budgets. Process: Driving speed through automation, AIOps, and managed services Developers and end users demand seamless access to resources, free from the shackles of manual configurations and tedious interventions. Could this turn IT from hero to superhero?

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 30, 2022

The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) is an enterprise architecture methodology that offers a high-level framework for enterprise software development. The TOGAF certification is especially useful for enterprise architects , because it’s a common methodology and framework used in the field.

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Network World

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Research firm Gartner is also bullish on network automation, forecasting that 30% of enterprises will automate more than half of their network activities by 2026 , up from only 10% in mid-2023. Gartner also predicts that businesses embracing enterprise-wide automation will deliver much higher service quality, while also cutting costs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 16, 2025

Beyond banking and payments, multi-national enterprises across various industries are exploring super-apps potential to enhance operational efficiency and improve customer and employee user experiences. Understanding these obstacles is crucial for enterprises seeking to leverage the super-app model effectively.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 3, 2024

As the Generative AI (GenAI) hype continues, we’re seeing an uptick of real-world, enterprise-grade solutions in industries from healthcare and finance, to retail and media. GenAI budget increases were significant, with 12% of respondents reporting an increase of more than 300% compared to the previous year.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 2, 2023

With tight IT budgets getting tighter, many Oracle licensees with Unlimited Licensing Agreements (ULAs) are tempted to consider an exit plan to avoid the pinch of rising support costs. Most enterprises want to avoid expending unnecessary time, effort, and resources on licensing issues, so they can focus on maximizing value and results.

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