CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 3, 2024

Cloud doesn’t just open the door to enabling advanced technologies like AI, hyper-automation, and big data analytics – it unlocks a complex realm of costs and expense management problems that can threaten innovation and its financial sustainability. The bottom line: CFOs and CIOs need fixed costs for easier budgeting and forecasting.

Cloud 98

Cloud Financial Budget WAN 98

SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The breach reportedly exposed customer names, addresses, driver license numbers, and other personal data. Car rental agencies like Avis collect and store vast amounts of sensitive data, including customer names, addresses, and driver's license numbers, making it essential for them to prioritize robust cybersecurity protocols.

Automotive 93

Automotive Data Licensing Industry 93

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

No IT organization wants to get caught short on processing or storage resources that could negatively affect operations, or have to suddenly add resources that exceed the budget. In this way, you can take advantage of the cloud’s agile, on-demand approach with unlimited capacity without breaking the budget.

Cloud 121

Cloud CTO Hire Fractional CTO Budget 121

SecureWorld News

JANUARY 21, 2024

Nonprofits often juggle tight budgets and unique operational demands, making it even more difficult to keep sensitive information safe—but here's the thing: you don't need a fortune to build a strong defense against the possible cyber threats out there. Battling cybersecurity threats can often feel like an uphill struggle.

Nonprofit 92

Nonprofit Strategy Budget Backup 92

Kitaboo

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Opportunities in Teaching Materials Management Systems Integration of Innovative Technologies Collaborative Content Creation and Sharing Strategic Resource Allocation and Budget Management IV. Understanding legal frameworks is crucial in navigating the intricacies of fair use, open educational resources (OER), and Creative Commons licensing.

Education 78

Education System eBook Resources 78

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 13, 2023

This might include updating CFOs and CEOs on specific cost reduction, such as reducing spend with a security vendor, finding a less expensive product to fill a security need, or improving internal metrics such as the average cost to mitigate a vulnerability, adds Tyson Kopczynski,SVP and CISO at financial services provider Oportun.

Security 108

Security Budget Information Security Applications 108

GeekWire

MARCH 2, 2022

After cutting budgets and paying debts, the institute has now re-emerged as a leaner enterprise with new philanthropic support. According to a 2019 report in the New York Times, executives and board members were concerned about financial solvency and the direction of the institute under its previous CEO, founder Steven Reed.

Research 98

Research Nonprofit Licensing Financial 98

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 15, 2024

Another CIO mentioned that planning and moving data to the cloud required deep collaboration with vendors to build an assessment for licensing, workloads and migration costs. Technology was no longer considered a service to the business but a valuable and strategic part of accelerating business both functionally and financially.

IBM 96

IBM Cloud System Licensing 96

ForAllSecure

JANUARY 13, 2021

We’ll start our analysis by addressing a contentious and multilayered topic: product licensing. Product licensing is an obvious cost, but it is a common misconception that it is the largest cost. Penetration testing has no direct product license or operational cost. Manual Penetration Testing Operation Costs.

Licensing 52

Licensing Budget Analysis Engineering 52

ForAllSecure

JANUARY 13, 2021

We’ll start our analysis by addressing a contentious and multilayered topic: product licensing. Product licensing is an obvious cost, but it is a common misconception that it is the largest cost. Penetration testing has no direct product license or operational cost. Manual Penetration Testing Operation Costs.

Licensing 52

Licensing Budget Analysis Engineering 52

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

To be sure, enterprise cloud budgets continue to increase, with IT decision-makers reporting that 31% of their overall technology budget will go toward cloud computing and two-thirds expecting their cloud budget to increase in the next 12 months, according to the Foundry Cloud Computing Study 2023.

Strategy 140

Strategy Cloud CTO Hire Fractional CTO 140

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 3, 2024

Forrester analyst Tracy Woo reports that cloud financial management typically requires 3+ full-time employees, and companies building an automated platform invest at least $1M in technology backed by teams of 15-45 engineers. They can pinpoint waste seeing where cloud infrastructure and software licenses are going unused.

Study 101

Study Cloud Programming Financial 101

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As an IT leader, you deal with balancing benefits and budgets within the rapid pace of technological change every day. 5G usually relies on either licensed spectrum or shared-access spectrum in which users are only other known telecom users. For example, accounting offices often require usage restrictions on sensitive, financial data.

Network 104

Network Enterprise Enterprise Applications 104

Network World

AUGUST 19, 2024

Will Broadcom raise prices, introduce new licensing models, or rationalize products? Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware is disrupting established platform strategies and impacting sourcing, procurement, budgeting and architectural roadmaps, including strategic partnerships,” says Julia Palmer, a research vice president at research firm Gartner.

Vmware 120

Vmware Strategy Research Survey 120

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

To optimize cloud investments, C-level executives are increasingly adopting cloud financial operations (FinOps). Organizations must examine shared resources, storage costs, network costs, platform services, monitoring, logging, and licensing. Then they must choose a financial model, whether an even split, fixed, or proportional model.

Cloud 91

Cloud Resources Strategy Meeting 91

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

If an enterprise can do more work with less hardware, using fewer servers, licenses, and people, they save money while lowering carbon emissions. Upcycling programs can help enterprise businesses manage the financial and sustainability impacts of surplus equipment. Power savings represents just part of the equation.

Industry 98

Industry Data Center Energy .Net 98

Dataconomy

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Jurisdiction The first thing to look for in a crypto exchange is the proper license that authorizes its jurisdiction in your country or area. Cryptocurrencies are known to be volatile as their value isn’t tied to any of the traditional financial institutions such as national banks. It’s a way to mitigate risks.

Insurance 46

Insurance Policies Licensing Financial 46

Kitaboo

DECEMBER 18, 2023

They are responsible for developing and implementing effective financial strategies, identifying revenue streams, and making sound financial decisions to ensure the long-term viability of the organization. While change can be good, it also impacts funding, budget allocations, and investment decisions. Table of Contents I.

Financial 78

Financial eBook Education Strategy 78

The Verge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Despite their celebrity, much of the quilters’ fame is based on visitors sharing their work outside of their community — and historically, the financial benefits have gone to people outside of their community, too. At least, this is how it worked before February of 2021. Some didn’t have bank accounts to receive payments.

Financial 98

Financial Hotels Nonprofit Licensing 98

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 23, 2023

You know my budget is tight; I can’t afford that. Not only do you want me to migrate to HANA and S/4HANA, but you also want me to give up my perpetual licenses and replace them with subscriptions. You told the whole world that after December 31, 2027, you would charge an additional 2 percentage points for sustaining support.

SAP 98

SAP Software Software Programming 98

The Verge

OCTOBER 20, 2020

If subscriber growth continues, Netflix can take that additional revenue and expand its content budget even more. Cutting down on expensive shows that don’t bring in or keep subscribers is a good financial move, but it also cuts down on the number of originals that Netflix can offer down the road. Those shows are all risk.

Company 84

Company Film .Net Budget 84

GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Asking the right financial questions — like what customers are willing to pay for — helps in aligning the business model with market demands. A licensing assistant that detects unauthorized use of copyrighted material like music or videos, then notifies the owner.

Resources 98

Resources Data Sports Licensing 98

Dataconomy

JUNE 14, 2023

The digital piracy industry is estimated to cause billions of dollars in financial losses to content creators, copyright holders, and the global economy each year ( Image Credit ) What is digital piracy? Do you truly desire to entrust them with your credit card details, potentially facing financial repercussions?

Industry 36

Industry Internet Financial Malware 36

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 3, 2024

With more than 18 million registered users, countless IT and finance leaders are looking to lower their Office subscription costs and reduce the number of licenses they need. Visibility into 365 licenses is difficult – But not for obvious reasons It’s easy to assume 365 is hard to manage because of its universal usage.

Microsoft 111

Microsoft Licensing How To Tools 111

Future of CIO

MARCH 5, 2017

Thus, the CIO's dashboard can highlight some significant IT cost and finance information (budget, expenses, service costs, etc), and keep track of the overall IT financial health. The IT cost can be categories into: IT operational cost, financials, technical debt, or a calculation of the cost to fix structural quality problems.

Business Transformation 40

Business Transformation Financial Licensing Budget 40

GeekWire

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

of Juno at its IPO, and the institution’s research budget fattened with the company’s success. Juno’s outsized financial deals and fresh investors shifted the mindset of the biotech industry, said Nelsen, who has been called “the biggest dreamer in biotech investing” by Forbes. Fred Hutch owned 4.6%

Biotechnology 98

Biotechnology Research CTO Hire Company 98

Future of CIO

JUNE 11, 2014

Thus, the CIO's dashboard can highlight some significant IT cost and f inance information (budget, expenses, service costs, etc), and keep track of the overall IT financial health. · -- IT operational cost, financials, technical debt - a calculation of the cost to fix structural quality problems, · -- Vendor cost - monthly expenses, license cost, procurement (..)

Business Transformation 49

Business Transformation Financial Licensing Budget 49

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

With enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) applications at the heart of many a company’s operations, the consequences of a failed software rollout can be serious, including shareholder lawsuits and financial meltdown. Finally, after the project was abandoned, Worth & Co.

SAP 126

SAP System Oracle Company 126

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 3, 2024

As 2024 unfolds, businesses need to ground their costs and direct budgets towards future opportunities. Software evaluates application usage data and user behaviors, flagging instances of redundant tools and unused licenses that can be reallocated to avoid unnecessary expenses. AI is just as effective for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).

Cloud 104

Cloud Strategy Budget Financial 104

Future of CIO

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Digital is the age of change, technology life cycle becomes shorter every year and CAPEX doesn't allow most of IT organization to keep modern and competitive, how shall CIOs argue to CFOs to move from CAPEX to OPEX your IT budget? Start the conversation as a way of providing the CFO budgeting flexibility. Find the middle ground.

Budget 45

Budget Cloud Hardware Strategy 45

Future of CIO

MARCH 31, 2013

The detailed data becomes a base from which statistical analysis can be performed to do far more accurate financial budgeting projections, based on natural growth rates at a fine-grained level and capacity planning is more accurately predicted too. PMO KPIs Running IT as a business, every IT project is a business project.

Budget 69

Budget Project Management Resources .Net 69

Future of CIO

MARCH 8, 2013

TCO is indeed a useful metric but is only an indicator of initial capital costs and closely related recurring costs when utilized in most IT-based financial models. In IT, this includes servers, storage, networks, facilities, software licenses, personnel, real estate, etc. TCO is a concept that cuts across typical budget lines.

Financial 40

Financial Budget Real Estate Tools 40

Network World

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

I’m not aware of any other storage provider enabling this financial flexibility. During his IT career, managing spend was difficult and inflexible because budget allocations were not transferrable, and he said the credits would have been useful to have in situations when new workloads and applications were introduced.

Storage 132

Storage Vmware Enterprise Enterprise 132

GeekWire

MAY 10, 2023

Microsoft is navigating various macroeconomic headwinds, including a pullback in business technology budgets and more cautious customer spending for cloud services and software licenses that drive the bulk of Microsoft’s business. Fellow Seattle-area tech giant Amazon is reducing stock awards this year.

Microsoft 128

Microsoft Budget Licensing Report 128

GeekWire

APRIL 24, 2023

GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Barring a big surprise, the sluggish economy will continue to take a toll on Microsoft’s overall growth in its financial report Tuesday afternoon for the three months ended March 31, the third quarter of the company’s fiscal year. Analysts expect earnings of $2.23

Microsoft 125

Microsoft Financial Cloud Licensing 125

GeekWire

APRIL 25, 2023

The results mirror Microsoft’s financials from its second fiscal quarter : continued growth in the cloud business that is helping pad revenue declines in Windows and devices. The company beat analyst expectations of $51 billion and shares were up more than 4% in after-hours trading. Profits came in at $18.3 billion, up 9%.

Microsoft 125

Microsoft Windows Cloud Financial 125

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 3, 2024

Consider the expenses related to both physical and virtual assets like virtual machines and servers, physical servers, and data centers (utilities, labor management costs, software licenses, etc.). Executives get overarching views while IT financial analysts can track every dollar.

Cloud 97

Cloud Licensing Unified Communications Applications 97