CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The software spending increases will be driven by several factors, including price increases, expanding license bases, and some AI investments , says John Lovelock, distinguished vice president analyst at Gartner. “We Data center spending will increase again by 15.5% trillion, Gartner projects.

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CIO Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2013

We are talking about the budget cycle. Budget approaches vary widely and cost-plus, to zero-based and others. I have worked in places where the budget never changed from year to year and I have worked in places where every year we prepared 5%, 10% and 15% cut scenarios for the consideration of the budget department.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 17, 2023

While investing in technology is key—and becoming more so—this doesn’t mean that CIO budgets won’t come under pressure, both for capital spend as well as for operations and maintenance (O&M). Optimize cloud spend It’s a good time for CIOs to conduct a financial health check on their technology budget. Not necessarily.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

According to the report, the implementation has fundamentally impacted the Councils financial management and its operations, forcing the council into a costly re-implementation phase that has more than doubled the projects original budget. Licensing and customization fees added further strain to the budget.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 17, 2025

Others may fear vendor lock-in and the prospect of escalating licensing fees to fund large-scale AI investments. That may help explain why just under half of the companies that participated in a recent Foundry survey have a dedicated AI budget and even fewer believe they have the right data and technology in place to use AI effectively 1.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

To inform your approach, consider factors such as technical expertise, how Windows 11 Pro features support their workflows, budget constraints, and willingness to upgrade hardware. Assess licensing requirements Review your software licenses for Windows 11 Pro compatibility and check for any additional licensing needs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Concerns about price hikes surfaced when Broadcom moved VMware away from perpetual licensing terms and onto a subscription model that bundles multiple products together. The capital cost of the new VMWare licensing is but a small part of the overall project.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

“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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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 26, 2023

And the licensing models for those solutions should be just as flexible. Flexible licensing programs that allow organizations to pay by usage have emerged as a solution to this challenge. Additionally, look for flexible licensing programs that offer a wide portfolio of solutions and services rather than one or two.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

But if you’re a department head pitching a major software expenditure to a CIO, if you’re a CIO with a limited budget trying to choose between competing projects, or you’re a CIO trying to sell a software-driven strategic initiative to the CEO or the board of directors, a strong TCO analysis is a must.

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Eric D. Brown

OCTOBER 28, 2024

You know the drill: software licenses, subscription fees, consulting fees, and hardware infrastructure. The remaining 70% comprises hidden costs that rarely make it into initial budgets or project proposals. I recently talked to the CEO of a mid-sized manufacturing company that budgeted $500,000 for an AI-driven quality control system.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Expansion of license types. These different databases have varying licensing mechanisms, including traditional, cloud, full open source, and commercial open source. Complex licensing structures. Complex licensing structures. Many database vendors tout a flexible licensing structure. Increasing use of the cloud.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2025

The Foundation is also responding to requests from practitioners to extend its framework to cover other areas of IT, such as private cloud, SaaS, licensing, and on-prem data centers. They review transparency and budgeting, and engage with the finance organization monthly to review trends.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

This costs me about 1% of what it would cost” to license the technology through Microsoft. He initially turned down the CIO job but was persuaded to take it up by the prospects of leading Marsh McLennan on this digital journey.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2024

We’ve already seen the cost of AI really start to negatively impact cloud budgets,” he says. “In Other CIOs are enjoying the cost-saving benefits of their enterprise license agreements with major cloud and AI providers such as Microsoft, Google, and AWS. “We

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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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

This costs me about 1% of what it would cost” to license the technology through Microsoft. He initially turned down the CIO job but was persuaded to take it up by the prospects of leading Marsh McLellan on this digital journey.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The bill, referred to the City Council last week, would require “network companies” operating in Seattle to pay the fees to obtain an annual license. In a statement, Instacart said the proposed tax “forces residents to foot the bill for an ill-advised ordinance amid record inflation and tightened budgets.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Inflation may have dropped from its high in 2022, but the price pressures on IT budgets have continued unabated. Forty-one percent of the CIOs in the survey said they’ve changed their cycle for revisiting IT budgets to at least every month, says Tony Olvet, IDC’s VP of worldwide C-suite and digital business research.

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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.

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Tech Republic

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Only 5% of IT leader respondents to a Nexthink survey have complete visibility into the software licenses their organization uses. The post Report: Nearly half of software licenses are unused, wasting $44M+ per month appeared first on TechRepublic.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 26, 2023

In space, no-one can cancel your software license NASA is a scientific marvel that does all sorts of cool and inspiring space stuff; it’s also a sprawling government bureaucracy with thousands of employees and computer systems under its umbrella.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

This blog will examine how enterprises can take stock of their systems, and offer best practices for IT teams with small budgets looking to re-tool. Getting by on Small Budgets. Smaller businesses with tighter budgets are often more likely to undertake re-tooling. The Importance of Self-Analysis.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 13, 2024

Low barriers to entry Better yet, the cost to try a small language model AI is close to zero, as opposed to monthly licensing costs for an LLM or spending millions of dollars to build your own, Bullock says. For example, Homeowner AI creates budgets for home improvement projects, based on location, materials used, and other factors.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 13, 2023

Kopczynski adds that CISOs can uncover such improvements with questions such as whether their organization is using all the functions in a security tool, if those features overlap with other tools, and whether the organization is paying too much for licenses or for too many licenses.

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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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2023

What’s being announced: New HPE GreenLake for Aruba Data Center Networking Service Packs Today’s environment of economic uncertainty and budget scrutiny requires organizations to improve the traditional IT acquisition process of significant up-front capital investment, long-term budgeting, and elongated procurement cycles.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 15, 2024

Instead, in working across Azure, “we use some proprietary solutions that we licensed and then do very simple coding,” he says. It’s unwieldy at times managing a detailed budget by vendor. It used to be that you had 15 to 30 key vendor partners, and now it’s more than 100,” he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 2, 2024

Embrace the future-proofing imperative Eighty-three percent of IT leaders and 88% of LOB leaders expect full-year spending in 2024 to be higher or in line with original 2024 budgets despite inflation and potential recession concerns, according to IDC’s Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave 3 (March 2024).

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The integration gives a single source of truth for job costs and budgeting. He also loves an existing feature: the way he can publish results from Analytics to a presentation or web page so external users can view them without needing an Analytics license. He enthused about the new mobile app, and new chart types in Analytics 6.0,

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 19, 2022

Difficulties may arise around licensing, intellectual property laws and data protection regulations. . Idera calculates that maintenance generally accounts for 50-80% of development budgets. Adding new sources of data into models can also add significant costs to stretched budgets. .

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Such conversations … should conclude with clear actions, benefits, timelines, and the budget and resources required to close gaps.” Prioritized actions can then be assigned to the appropriate teams to address topics such as licensing, process improvement, vulnerability hunting, security control visibility, and regulatory mandates.

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KineticData

DECEMBER 28, 2022

What is per-user license pricing? There’s a lot of talk these days about per-user licensing models. Here’s what you need to know about per user license misalignment and how to avoid it. What is per user license misalignment? The impacts of misaligned budgets and processes extend far beyond the books.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

This invention is one of many that’s available for licensing. billion budget for R&D, the government-supported facility has been generating scientific breakthroughs that are available to the public to license and commercialize for the past 55 years. PNNL Photo / Andrea Starr). biomarkers for liver disease. ”

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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. This required CIOs to not only lead teams, assess team skills, work with vendors, but additionally be an integral part of the budget and planning process.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2022

Hardware purchased with a three to five year depreciation plan or lease contracts tie up budget that could be otherwise used to move more rapidly to cloud. Software licenses. Owned hardware assets.

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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. The benefits are extraordinary.

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