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Where CIOs should place their 2025 AI bets

CIO Business Intelligence

CIOs were given significant budgets to improve productivity, cost savings, and competitive advantages with gen AI. CIOs feeling the pressure will likely seek more pragmatic AI applications, platform simplifications, and risk management practices that have short-term benefits while becoming force multipliers to longer-term financial returns.

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How will AI agents be priced? CIOs need to pay attention

CIO Business Intelligence

Conversations and subscriptions A per-conversation model seems to be an emerging approach, says Sesh Iyer, managing director, senior partner, and North America regional chair at BCG X, Boston Consulting Groups IT building and designing group. That is until they see a spike and burn through half of their budget in a few weeks.

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Cost concerns put CIOs’ AI strategies on edge

CIO Business Intelligence

Since AI is new for most companies, this creates a budgeting challenge for their AI initiatives. That uncertainty creates a challenge for risk-averse companies that must work within budget constraints. Pay-as-you-go pricing is a way to reduce financial risk by not locking into long-term contracts.

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7 signs it’s time to modernize your IT systems

CIO Business Intelligence

The bad news, however, is that IT system modernization requires significant financial and time investments. When addressed properly , application and platform modernization drives immense value and positions organizations ahead of their competition, says Anindeep Kar, a consultant with technology research and advisory firm ISG.

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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. Cloud spending is going up and budgets are tightening, so theyre asking whats going on and how do we right this ship. And for some organizations, annual cloud spend has increased dramatically.

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8 reasons your cloud costs are too high

CIO Business Intelligence

Underutilized and/or overprovisioned resources are among the biggest contributors to high cloud costs, says Shreehari Kulkarni, principal consultant with global technology research and advisory firm ISG. Optimizing resources based on application needs is essential to avoid setting up oversized resources, he states.

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Beyond the hype: 4 use cases that show what’s actually working with gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

At Emburse, an expense reimbursement company, software developers use code generation tools like Github Copilot and Amazon Q Developer, which integrate directly into developer environments, says Ken Ringdahl, the companys CTO. Our salespeople go out to meet with financial advisors, says Baker. Youve got that down to a science, he says.

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